The article that I have posted previously, have all the trappings of the early 70's. Not much is new from what I have read. In fact, all what is being said is a regurgitation of what our Na Kupuna had said back in the early 70s.
As a young mother of four (keeping up with the dying race) I sat and listened to the native Hawaiian women from various homesteads--including outer islands. They are all gone! And what are left are the same old words spoken by the native Hawaiian women in the article that I just posted.
The events over time was predicted and anticipated by a three way communication. It was a group called Hoala Kanawai, homestead women, and new people from the outside of homestead seeking a career goal or just wanting to know out of moral reasons.
Today, unfortunately the outside group weakened the voices of Hoala Kanawai and their partners Hawaiian Homestead women and their families’ voices. I think I might be the only person left from that group that is voicing her opinion as well as what I heard during that time period. I sat silently, and listened. My opinions are a joining of their voices and the events that transpired since 1974.
The author is saying don't worry in various ways. For example: "This is normal...cautiously optimistic...necessarily a bad thing... (Repeat c o)...not unusual... believes...wouldn't expect...not always agree...opinion...thinking pretty hard...premature...etc... .
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation did not exist! Therefore, they are "not involved in the case" shouldn't we be asking "why not"?
As a native Hawaiian homestead (growing up in Waimanalo) lessee’s today in Waianae, I am concern that the soft peddle of the author and the avoidance of this problem should not rest on the US courts. It is a congressional act and that's where it should be housed and managed under the 'Rehabilitation Act' of congress. The courts should not step over the line to mangle the Rehabilitation Act. In that 'Rehabilitation Acts' houses Disability and Veterans Acts.
The irony here is that the 1978 con con made the Native Hawaiian Homestead Amendment of 1923 into a what it is today--grounds for civil war among the Hawaiian people! Who did this? The ignorance of native Hawaiian men, Anglo-Saxon, and weakened native Hawaiian women are the reasons why we have this soon to be court review. Native Hawaiian women were just beaten into the ground and they began to rise up and for the first time--speak up!
What most people don't realize that there were other voices of native Hawaiian women that were far craftier--and regrettably unknowing of the laws in the US system? And too internationally known laws as well as the processes of 'Occupation' which I believe will run it's course and return to the point of the 'bloodquantum' as a should ah, done ah, could ah. But, in my opinion it will be too late!
In 1979 and at the State Capital, Ben Cayetano never dreamed he would walk the talk instead of John Waihee the cause of the problem. I know cause I looked straight into Ben's eyes and said, if you follow through with what Whitney Anderson just said and not listen to us (by then I am smart) and stop the formation of a Hawaiian Only Vote entity, you will get this! Supreme Court ruling which I believe was he's given intent too! That was to give the power to the general lease’s and not the native Hawaiian beneficiaries. In my mind are native Hawaiian women and their children.
The 'this' was a vow from Rice during the 1978 con con to file a suit, or grievance, I think? Bill Paty partner in crime said there is no such thing as 5(f) and so did Whitney Anderson. So, if this is all true what the heck are we doing today?
We are taking inventory of the ceded (not) lands under DLNR? Act 54, finds fault for native Hawaiian women and their children as in penal code when it addresses native women in their abode. Stealing educational monies from native Hawaiian purposes! And the list is endless, all of which is not new to me because this was all discussed in the 1970s among native women of the Hawaiian Homestead from various communities.
The saving grace was that the outcome in the 80's women could become homestead leases too. Yup, up until then it was not practiced only men were given leases to Hawaiian Homestead lands.
It is truly sad, and I apologize for joining the ranks of 'selling out' I think it is more egotistical (not sure), I want the Supreme Court to end the civil war between native Hawaiians and themselves. I want to stop engaging to stall the 'what will be' under John Van Dyke's plan. His plan was to destroy the Hawaii's already existing state constitution that held the preambles’ of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Splintered Paddle, common law, water usage and Gathering Rights laws) these are the given's. What was very clear to native Hawaiian women in the 70's that were being brutally beaten into the ground by Hawaiian men at that time--that was the continuation of rape and found guilty, thus their children were entering a correctional institution--instead of college. Native Hawaiian women began to speak up and resist.
Speaking up was not valued in the Hawaiian community set forth by the battle at the time of Kamehameha I and his missionaries foe. The missionaries are always on the frontal lobe, and they continued usage of their needs enters our debates previous to 1978 con con, unfortunately, the beautification missionary women quells native Hawaiian women voices then and now. This 'real for me phenomenon happens everyday in Waianae with beautification missionary women and their Hawaiian male counterparts. I don't have much to say except the battle lines are not clear!
Kamehameha I killed 800 or more of native Hawaiian men in the battle of Nuuanu with Euro Angle-Saxon fire power. Men that for thousands of years (dated from graves) kept the aina in production, they were murdered and plucked out of existence. Ever since that battle-- land and near by shores were pillaged and raped which is still on going until this day. Koolaupoko for the next hundred years or more continues their pain and suffrage under the disguise of 'Manifest Destiny.' Those pieces of long ago are still intact; however, does anyone care to know the specifics? No!
My father the last remaining descendant warrior Kanaka oo 'Niaupio was granted his wish and that was to die in the very place that he was born on at 1845 Maunawili Road. This property has many relics of history dating further back than the history of Unity War of the Euro-Anglo Saxon and Kamehameha I. He (my father) is home with his mom and dad on an ancestral space and time. We, have yet to learn what this is, although it is unconscious--it exists!
Back to the setting of courts and congress, my concern is that the "Rehabilitation Acts' are the very basis of the Hawaii's Constitutional reform in 1978. This is truly the war on Veterans Disability Rehabilitation Act that groups such as: Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii and the Goldwater Institute are hoping to destroy on the eve of the troops coming home from war!
Doesn't anybody remember the John Waihe'e grassroots campaigns? If one looks even deeper there is a connection to the sponsors of the Nuuanu Battle between Hawaiians. Native Hawaiian women and their children are still being pillaged and raped on one hand and aborted on the other! The recent passing of Act 54 speaks to 'fault' and penal code and that is the direction native Hawaiian women are headed towards with their children. I see this intent everyday in both private and public school systems in Hawaii. And too, all the meetings that Department of Hawaiian Homestead hold in our communities wreaks with beautification and missionary women at the helm directing agriculture lands out of the hands of native Hawaiians. Stealing monies from the educational system that belongs to native Hawaiian children and redirecting it to frivolous meaningless spending. Ugh!
Good grief!
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