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I was recognized as cultural decedent for the Kawaiahao burials in yesterdays OIBC meeting. Below is some of the emotions that went on at that meeting.

Mike Lee

> Subject: FW: Civil Beat -- Burial Council Meeting on Kawaiahao
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:20:31 -1000
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> FYI
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> Kawaiahao Breeds Anguish at Oahu's Burial Council
> The Oahu Island Burial Council is asked to deal with a lot of weighty issues.
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> And the burden of that responsibility is evident when you walk into the room.
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> The meeting Wednesday was heavy with frustration and anguish. The council's vice chair was even moved to tears.
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> With every decision — even the approval of minutes, pro forma at most other meetings I've covered — the council nearly crumbled under the burden of being one of the last places Native Hawaiians have to turn to talk about the clashes between the host culture and modern society.
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> The expectation from many who attend the meetings is that council members will stand up for Hawaiian burials, stand up for the Hawaiian religion, stand up for what Hawaiians say is pono. But the council, administratively attached to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources' Historic Preservation Division and just a minor player in state government, is limited in its power.
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> The pain caused by that friction was on full display Wednesday. The council, which has struggled to meet quorum in recent months and is still seeking more volunteers, was asked to recognize a handful of Native Hawaiian families as being descendants of those buried at Kawaiahao Church.
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> Instead, the panel spent an hour and a half debating whether Paulette Kaleikini and her family should be recognized as cultural descendants to 69 inadvertently discovered burials, as the department recommended, or as lineal descendants to known burials under the footprint of the multi-purpose center, now undergoing a controversial rebuild.
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> The council argued briefly over whether the Kawaiahao matter should continue to be on the agenda — the consensus was that it should be, even if the board has no authority to act, if only because it provides a forum for anguished Hawaiians.
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> That opened the floodgates. Vice Chair Hinaleimoana Falemei, fighting back tears, spoke passionately in Hawaiian.
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> "If we don't take action, we will be looked at as ineffective and unwilling to wield the spear when we need to," she then said in English. She encouraged Kaleikini to pray and "wake up" her ancestors so that they might play a more active role at Kawaiahao.
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> The board debated the efficacy of approving Kaleikini's request. Courts have determined that the Department of Health, not the Department of Land and Natural Resources or the Burial Council, has jurisdiction over the graveyard.
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> "The department's position is that we do not have jurisdiction in a Christian cemetery," Historic Preservation Division Administrator Pua Aiu told the council.
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> Council member Shad Kane acknowledged that the board is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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> "I'm a practicing Catholic but I want Kane to know I love him too," he said, referring to the Hawaiian god Kane.
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> Every one of the seven council members present was asked to weigh in, and members of the public in attendance testified, some multiple times. Some touted their connections to the monarchy, while some accused one another of failing to pay heed to the bones.
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> Eventually, the council chose a middle path: A motion was made to have the board recognize Kaleikini as a lineal descendant if and when it's determined that the council has jurisdiction over the burials at Kawaiahao, as it has maintained to no avail for more than a year. The motion passed unanimously, 7-0.
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> Two hours after the meeting began, only two items had been checked off the lengthy agenda. As Chair Kawika McKeague called for a short recess, some in the room congratulated Kaleikini on her victory.
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> Others prepared for more emotional battles.
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> There were still two more full pages on the meeting agenda.
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> Posted by Michael Levine on 05/11/2011

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