HAWAIIAN
FAMILY BEING EVICTED FROM ANCESTRAL LANDS
Hakipu`u -
Kualoa, Windward O`ahu, Hawai’i
Keoki
“Kaloman” Fukimitsu, traditional taro farmer and his family have been living at
49-077 Johnson Road, for nine generations. Their
“Kuleana Land” was established by the first land commission created by
Kamehameha I in 1832. The family has been planting taro, fishing and taking
care of the land. This Kuleana Land was to allow them to keep to their native
diet and take care of their family in perpetuity.
His
father’s non-Hawaiian partner, Gloria Siu, married him just before he passed
away. Gloria convinced Marvin
Fukumitsu to take his own family off the deed and put her and her family on it.
Today, she wants $1.8 million plus other cost retributions.
When John
Morgan of Kualoa Ranch stepped up to help Kaloman, Gloria refused to sell it
for the agreed Settlement amount because she wanted more money from the Ranch.
Now she
wants the family that has lived there all their lives to be evicted so she can
make her money and leave. Never mind that her deceased husband’s family has no
assets or other place to live.
This is a
blatant case of extreme injustice that
· A
Hawaiian family that has lived on the land since the 1700’s passed down through
Royal Patents from Queen Kalama, wife of Kamehameha III is being evicted
because of greed.
· A
resource of cultural significance provided by a family that has been part of
the cultural fabric in the traditional farming of taro for 9 generations will
be taken from the community through wrongful eviction.
· As
descendants from Chiefly and Kahuna clans “Kaloman” Fukumitsu and his family
are being denied their Native Rights, Hawaiian Rights, Kuleana Land Rights,
Water Rights and Konohiki Rights due to misuse of legal land grabbing.
It is
“Hewa” for a non-family member to evict children whose birthright is to live on
that land, farm it and have it sustain them. The eviction is scheduled within
the next 48 hours.
Our community and our family PROTEST this wrongful act of
eviction and want everyone to know the truth, see the truth and support
“Kaloman” to save Ancestral Rights and Traditional Kalo Farmlands. Call Keoki “Kaloman” Fukumitsu at
554-7650. Email kaloman@aol.com.
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Comments
Although a widower under American Law are entitled one third, I believe tenancy in common supersede such an agreement. The widower is not relative to the origin; therefore she is of no relations to the property. Lawyer Buslog, first Hawaiian women cases were sound on tenancy in common.
May Fukumitsu find the strength to stand for all lands belonging to ones family of origin.