Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 11, 1 November 2008 — Tyranny and iwi exposed [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
Tyranny and iwi exposed
By Alika Pae Silva Kahu Kulaiwi, Kua Mana, Kupukaaina n Wai'anae Wahipana, ū'ahu, Hawaiian Natinnal Aloha no 'ohana, remember the sacred rock eanoe eonnects us to our ancestors. And from U-Kane-Po Heiau and
Kāne Ana in Mākua Valley facing east is where the Sun of the Son of I'O rises and in December it stands in its solstice station. What our kūpuna visualized, practiced and taught us about our sacred eanoe and its articulated crew of navigators and warriors. Eaeh generation passed on the wisdom of the one
before and taught their mo'opuna everything they had to know about caring for our sacred 'āina. Kahu (priest) ean recite from memory every wind that blew on the sea or on land, we were taught to listen to the wind. Kahu are very skilled in astronomy and knew well the clouds and waters that rose and fell and those that drew toward land and away from it. Kahu knew when the navigation star rose, and when to sail at various times of the night from evening to morning, the months and stonny days in eaeh one all through the year. Kahu were trained to read signs (Kilokilo, how to tell when the sea would be eahn, when they would be a disturbance in the oeean, and when there would be a great stonn. Kahu observed the rainbows and oeean and the colors in and at the edges of them, the way they twinkled, their red, yellow or shade of blue glowing, the dinuning of them. In a stonn, the reddish rim on the clouds, the way in whieh they move. The lowering of the sky, the heavy cloudi-
ness, the blowing of the Ho'olua wind, the A'e winds from helow and the Ponahakeola (whirlwind, waterspout) on the oeean or on the sacred 'āina. Our knowledge and genetic instinct will eonhnue for those yet to eome, but learn to listen to the wind. Therefore, there is mueh more significance and value about Kanehunamoku, whieh eneompasses Mākua Valley and eonnects it to Kūkaniloko (the Piko of O'ahu). If archaeological sitespecific models are flawed in several ways, it fails to use the inter-relationships among sites. The U.S. Army repeatedly fails to address the culturally consistent requirements of the Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) Model as required by U.S. Section 106 law. Obviously, the outdated archaeological Site Model helps the Army confuse matters on Hawaiian religion, lineal descendants and cultural descendants thereby discriminating against lineal descendants who are practitioners of the Kāne religion and Kāne sites. The Kāne religion and practitioners are presumed to be protected by federal and state law. The Army is violating their 106 TCP law and allowing a malihini group (Hui Mālama), intrusion and eontrol onto our Kāne temples of Kanehunamoku (Mākua Valley). We remember with distress how an Army conunanding officer participated in worship and setting up new altars for the god Lono in Mākua Valley. Led by the malihini polhieal group (Hui Mālama), who used this ceremony to further their political goals. This worshipping of Lono and this type of malihini ceremony is not historic to Kanehunamoku, (Garden of Eden, Mākua Valley) It violates the Kāne religion, temples and TCP of our 'ohana. The religion of Kāne is a distinct cosmology and consequently a separate culture from the cosmology and culture of the Lono religion and culture. Historic facts from the Kanalu genealogy make clear the religion and cosmology of Kāne were in Hawai'i long before the first priest of Lono ever arrived. Lurthennore, historians argue that in January of 1893, the United
States landed troops in Honolulu to support the annexationist club, a handful of American insurrectionists. To avoid the needless loss of life, Queen Lili'uokalani prudently yielded to the anned forces of the U.S. military. Until such time that the U.S. rectifies its hann and restores the Hawaiian Kingdom. The United States is responsible to mend its unlawM action, and we ask the United Nations and the United States to create a peaceful resolution to this prolonged mihtary oeeupahon and cultural genocide.
— KUKAKUKA - CDMMUNIĪY FDRUM
The 'lolani Palaee gates display the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.- Photo: Blaine Fergerstrom