They defend the governor's emergency proclamation on housing, explain how the suspension of laws will work, and stress that the public will be involved in the process.
When explaining the significance of the name “Waiahiokole,” Keʻeaumoku Kapu, CEO of Aha Moku said “kole” means raw, and “waiahi” talks about the turbulence during the time of the shark birthing process. In addition to the literal translation, Kapu said scholars that he reached out to told him it was also named after a prominent chief that lived in the area. Dr. Janet Six, principal archaeologist for the County of Maui said, that while “Puamana definitely is a Hawaiian word–it just is one that was assigned to a large plantation house in the 1920s.” She explained that the area is historically a large grave site.
At least 15 sets of ancestral remains, or iwi, have been found at a construction site in Honolulu. This is raising questions about whether the state's process for protecting burials is effective enough an issue taken up by the Oʻahu Island Burial Council yesterday at its monthly meeting. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.
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