Saiki Finalizes Mauna Kea Working Group Membership - Honolulu Civil Beat
Protest leaders, UH officials and astronomers will all have seats on the panel. Reading time: 3 minutes.
Membership of a working group tasked with developing a plan to restructure the management of Mauna Kea has been finalized, House Speaker Scott Saiki announced Monday at a press conference.
Among the group’s members are representatives of several state agencies, observatory workers, House lawmakers, University of Hawaii officials and opponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope, a $2 billion project that stalled most recently in 2019 amid protests on Mauna Kea.
Saiki appointed Rep. Mark Nakashima, whose district includes Mauna Kea, as chairman of the panel. Work is expected to wrap up by December and in time for the 2022 legislative session.
At the same time, the Wilkes expedition noted the native population was vanishing at a drastic rate . . . particularly the chiefs, and that the ancient manners and customs had nearly disappeared.
David Malo and Samuel Kamakau, two of the first native Hawaiian historians, were students at a missionary school who gathered knowledge of the past from the oldest generations and the most informed members of their communities. The first native Hawaiian to publish a historic account was David Malo.
This publication’s timing in 1861 coincided with the birth of the Hawaiian language newspapers, produced entirely by native Hawaiians. It was their first opportunity to publish cultural knowledge. The Menehune Ditch in Waimea was first mentioned on September 26, 1861, in this manner, “in the sprays of Kikiaola, the ditch of the Melehuna [Menehune] will flow…”
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on certain federal funds that tribal entities qualify for. What do you say to such proponents?
UM: We cannot not desire protections. We cannot not desire entitlements that we have been authorized to receive by the federal government and state government. It is sensible to understand arguments for federal recognition in the sense that they are arguments to protect our people, our community, and our scarce entitlements that are a product of colonialism. The issue is that it is a small piece of the pie, and I’m not interested in just one piece. I’m interested in the whole pie. That pie is our lands, our resources, our own government and self-governance mechanisms not those small pieces that are gifted by our colonial government.
Task force created to research missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls
Task force created to research missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls By Samie Solina | May 5, 2021 at 5:15 PM HST - Updated May 5 at 5:24 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Lawmakers have created a new task force to research missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls.
The task force will be co-chaired by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
The commission’s executive director, Khara Jabola-Carolus, said there is a lack of data relating to domestic violence and trafficking, specifically for Native Hawaiians.