Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 21, Number 5, 1 May 2004 — UH lands [ARTICLE]

UH lands

The investigation by the U.S. Department of Education of our university for alleged giving of waivers to Hawaiian students is uncalled for. The lands that the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa now occupy were part of the Victoria Kamāmalu Estate. Kamāmalu was the granddaughter of Kamehameha I and daughter of Kūhina Nui Kīna'u. She was well-landed. Some say the estate controlled more land than all of the chiefs put together. Presently, most of the Kamāmalu lands through judicial probate decisions from the past are now called Kamehameha Schools. The portion of Kamāmalu's land set aside for the university, in a sense, belongs to all Hawaiians. So, it is only right that some of the indigent Hawaiian children do get waivers. One final note, all students do enjoy some kind of waiver — the Hawaiian queen's free land, whieh the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa occupies. Paul D. Lemke Kapa'a