Report to the Twenty-Fifth Legislature
2009 Regular Session
Final Report
Aha Kiole Advisory Committee
Best practices and specific structure for the cultural management of natural
resources in Hawaii.
Prepared by:
Aha Kiole Advisory Committee
State of Hawai’i
In Response to:
Act 212 Relating to Native Hawaiians
December, 2008
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I have a degree in geography so I find this entertaining, that they are using maps that have been stolen, republished and belonging to the First People Hawaii because they were the orgin of the design.
It was the first people that drew maps for Lorrin Andrews of Maui, in a classeroom setting that his wife did a long time ago. From this format, then Lorrin Andrew used it sell lands to the continental people and resold to the missionaries here (Cook, Castle and C. Brewer and many others). It's interesting how Na Kanaka are participating in this theft of lands and don't even know it. And they are doing this for a night in Waikiki and a plane ticket to Oahu to get together as a social kine groupy, they even bring their ukelele and sing away their justice. You know justice, that's your game.
Thick mud to tread in! Sounds like fun.....
SUBJECT: HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY
SOURCE: JUAN WILSON juanwilson@mac.com
POSTED: 2 DECEMBER 2008 - 11:00am HST
Moku-Ahupuaa Divisions on Kauai
image above: detail of Moku-Ahupuaa map. Click to enlarge. Visi tthe IB FTP Site for PDF file (32.2meg)by Juan Wilson on 2 December 2008
After the Kauai Mokupuni meeting, on 21 November 2008, I was asked by two representatives of the Aha Kiole Advisory Committee to provide a map of Kauai that would identify its traditional Moku regions and Ahupuaa districts.
This map would be part of a progress report to the Hawaii State legislature as a requirement to be met by the Aha Kiole Adisory Committee. The map would represent a preliminary determination of Hawaiian cultural districts, and provide a basis for determining the divisions of a future Aha Moku Council.
For a few years I and my colleague, Jonathan Jay, have been working on variations of such a map. We have used GIS software (Ggeographic Information Systems) to create the cartography in line with Hawaii State GIS systems.
MOKU REGIONS
We used six rather than the five five mokus identified by the state and commonly used today. The reason was a map we discovered two years ago. Our reference is the 1837 map created by Kalama of the moku for all islands in the Hawaiian system. The source for the map was www.DavidRunmsey.com. See our previous effort here.
This is the first separate map of the Hawaiian Islands published in Hawaii. It was engraved and drawn by Kalama, one of the best student engravers at the Lahainaluna Mission School on Maui, who made the larger 1838 Map of the Hawaiian Islands, of which only two copies are known. This 1837 map probably served as a prototype for the 1838 map. It was the most detailed map yet published, showing many place names on the islands unfamiliar to Cook and Vancouver and not appearing on their maps, exceeded in detail only by the enlarged 1838 edition which added more place names.
We mapped the Kalama moku to the watershed boundaries provided by the state database.
AHUPUAA DISTRICTS
Through the Aha Moku meetings, over the last year we learned that ahupuaa did not just follow watershed lines, but also were occasionally along stream beds.
When we tried to use the state ahupuaa boundaries on our map we found bizarre geometries that followed no physical features of the island.
• We found boundaries following a stream and then jumping in a straight to a mountaintop.
• We found ahupuaa crossing watershed ridge lines.
• We found boundaries with no reference to physical features of the island.
We have used a combination of Hawaii State data and Kauai Historical Society records to produce the ahupuaa boundaries.
We then tried to map the ahupuaa names to the states watershed maps. When mapped to watershed boundaries many ahupuaa made more sense. Some ahupuaa were made up of several small watersheds. However, some ahupuaa seemed to split a watershed. After considering the state contour data it seemed some ahupuaa could be split by streambeds.
After re-mapping the boundaries we feel we had a fairly good view of ahupuaa boundaries with only a few exceptions. One ahupuaa that was lost was Olehena. We now believe this is due to errors in the state watershed map that incorporates man made canals, used for sugarcane production, in the determination of natural watersheds. A deeper analysis of contours may resolve the few traditional ahupuaa we have failed to delineate.
We are seeking reactions to this map that will improve and refine it as a useful tool to the Hawaiian community and ultimately to our own. We recognize that within the Hawaiian cultural record are the seeds we need to plant to live on these islands sustainably.
This is a process that one should familiar oneself for a lot of reasons, it is called context with text..not just nation war games that are cyber icky's small little childish algorithum kine "JUNK' stuff. Sort of like garbage waste in dump sites with bits and pieces of nothing.
Then argue correctly, not like the stupid kid next door. I may not have the military mighty 5 billion dollar budget but I do have a horrendous student loan that is nasty but proven credibile to challenges outside of na Kanka couch or closet and singles and good for nothing Hawaiian clubbers.