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January  4, 2006

 

 

 

December 30, 2005

 

Hui Malama Upholds Silence

 

HONOLULU - As Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei prepares for its upcoming court battle, its resolve is strengthened by a groundswell of support from Hawaiians and others.

 

"We believe that our kupuna are speaking loudly and clearly and that their voices are being heard by all those who oppose a second theft of their moepu (funerary objects)," comments Pualani Kanahele, Hui Malamaís kumu (teacher and advisor).  "We are not deaf to their pleas for peace, sanctity, and respect."

 

Hui Malama's stance remains firm.  Commenting two days after Judge Ezra imprisoned its Executive Director Edward Halealoha Ayau for failing to disclose the exact locations of 83 funerary objects that were reburied with the remains of 19 individuals in a Kawaihae cave, the group's spokesperson, William Aila, affirms the group’s conviction:  "If Western law will not protect our ancestors’ burials, then we must.  We have no choice.  If we are to honor who we are as Hawaiians, what our ancestors have taught us, and what we want our children to learn from our actions, we must remain steadfast and protect the burial places of our kupuna (ancestors), their iwi (bones) and all moepu (funerary objects) that were placed with them.

 

Jailing our executive director will only reinforce our position.  Hui Malama’s resolve rests on a long history of caring for our ancestral burials.  Our opponents have no such record."

 

In 1989, Hui Malama played a crucial role in establishing federal and state laws giving unmarked Hawaiian burials similar protections afforded burials at graveyards with tombstones.  Hui Malama has reburied over 3,500 ancestors who were disturbed by development projects, purposeful looting, or scientific study.  These repatriated individuals were returned from 95 institutions including museums, universities, private entities, and federal and state agencies.  Through such repatriation efforts, Hui Malama has worked in successful partnership with at least 20 Native Hawaiian organizations and even more Hawaiian families over its 16-year history.

 

"We believe our record speaks for itself," says Aila.  "Our motives, our past history, our current actions are all consistent.  We find it impossible to comply with Judge Ezra's order because we are bound to a more fundamental kuleana (responsibility) to our kupuna."

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Wednesday, January 4, 2006

 

Judge picks engineers for Forbes Cave work

 

Advertiser Staff

 

A federal judge has named Applied Technology Corp. as the structural engineering firm that will examine the Forbes Cave on the Big Island, where priceless Hawaiian artifacts are believed to have been placed by the group Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei.

 

U.S. District Judge David Ezra has ruled that 83 artifacts buried in two Big Island caves must be returned to the Bishop Museum. Museum officials loaned the items to the nonprofit, but Hui Malama said they returned what they deem as funerary objects to the caves from which they were looted by westerners in 1905. Two other Native Hawaiian groups sued Hui Malama and the museum for the return of the objects pending resolution of a dispute about their final resting place.

 

Ezra ordered the examination of the cave by an engineer after Hui Malama's masonry contractor filed an affidavit stating that he sealed one of the caves with a concrete wall. George W. "Billy" Fields III warned that reopening the cave could cause its collapse and would be a danger to those involved.

 

Applied Technology is headed by Alfred Yee. Ezra ordered each group to submit recommendations for structural engineers. Applied Technology was on the lists submitted by Hui Malama's opponents and the museum.

 

 

 

 

Posted: Saturday, Dec 31, 2005 - 07:22:10 am HST

 

Anahola Hawaiians travel to New York for tech training

 

By Paul C. Curtis - The Garden Island

For Erik Danner, Keoki Cummings and Maile Tomacder, all of Anahola, their first trip to New York City would have been memorable without the unexpected perk.

Their co-workers at the Anahola Hawaiian Homestead Technology (AHHT) site, where they work to convert paper documents into digital form, and those at the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA), pitched in to provide them tickets for a Broadway show.

They went to see "The Souvenir" and had a great time, they said. They were there for 10 days, and had a solid week of training in translating documents from rich text format (rtf) form to xml form, Tomacder said.

They recently returned, and are back at work at the AHHT site on state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands property in Anahola, armed with new skills in document-conversion software acquired during their trip to the Big Apple.

They are awaiting the arrival of new software and hardware necessary for implemeting the new offering, she said.

Danner asked for volunteers to accompany him to New York, and Tomacder and Cummings stepped up, Tomacder said.

It was the first time to New York City for all of them, and the first time out of Hawai'i for Tomacder.

"This was my first trip to the Mainland, and it was amazing to be able to visit such well-known places as Times Square and Broadway," Tomacder said.

"It was actually cool, interesting, much different than Kaua'i," said Tomacder, who said she would like to return to New York City for pleasure purposes at another time, but "not when it's cold, though. I would like to go back for pleasure." Tomacder was able to squeeze some shopping in during the trip earlier this month.

Cummings loved the 20-degree weather, he said. "It's like A/C (air conditioning) all day. It was fun. The degrees was perfect."

Like Tomacder, Cummings also plans a return trip to New York. "I definitely will be back, for vacation or something. It's unlike anywhere else in Hawai'i.

"I'll go back for pleasure," Cummings said. "I'm definitely going back."

The scene in Times Square is one that he will long remember, he said, "people walking 20 miles an hour."

The trip was made possible because of a $50,000 grant CNHA obtained from leaders of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to provide specialized computer-graphics training for the three and six other AHHT employees, explained Lilia Kapuniai, CNHA vice president.

On the economic side, this training will allow the site leaders to get contracts for not only text digitization, but graphic digitization, broadening their capacity to compete with other, larger firms, she said.

Although Anahola has a small staff, they have accomplished a lot, putting themselves on the map across the country for text digitization, Kapuniai said.

The first activity of the grant provided training for the three Anahola residents in New York City.

This story will "bring huge smiles to this little Hawaiian community, build their sense of pride, and it would help OHA and the community see that their funds are changing lives," Kapuniai said.

The OHA funds are providing Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) training to Anahola-area residents employed at CNHA's initiative, Hawaiian Homestead Technology, she explained.

Employment opportunities for CAD are growing, and these new skills will allow HHT leaders to expand the service options at the Anahola technology center, Kapuniai explained.

Currently, nine Anahola-area residents are employed at the Anahola technology center, where they are focused on converting paper manuals from equipment manufactures such as Northrop Grumman and General Electric into digital manuals.

HHT officials have provided the first employment opportunities on DHHL properties across the state, adding another 10 positions in Waimanalo on O'ahu, where their main focus is conversion of paper documents such as blueprints, large-format diagrams, and schematics into CAD formats, she said.

"Our hard-working staff has created assets for our clients that give them quick and reliable access to important information." said Myron Thompson, HHT president.

Tomacder, Danner and Cummings' training was delivered by officials at Data Conversion Laboratories, whose staff are HHT leaders' partners and mentors in document-conversion software.

"I am excited every day to hear the stories from our staff about the opportunities and experiences that HHT has helped them to achieve," Thompson said.

HHT is an information-technology firm whose employees convert documents, including text and graphics, to sophisticated electronic versions, for government and commercial clients.

Partnered with those at national software firms and more than a dozen federally-recognized Indian tribes across the country, HHT leaders and employees deliver on-task orders generated under the Native American Document Conversion Project, supported by U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i, to promote technology industries in Native communities, Kapuniai explained.

A social enterprise founded by leaders of the CNHA, the HHT's mission is to sustain a viable technology industry in DHHL communities, and build local economic capacities and partnerships, Kapuniai explained.

For more information, please contact CNHA toll-free at 1-800-709-2642, via e-mail at infor@hawaiiancouncil.org, or visit our Web site at www.hawaiiancouncil.org.

·  Paul C. Curtis, associate editor, may be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) or pcurtis@kauaipubco.com.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Wednesday, January 4, 2006

 

Civil rights panel sets briefing on Akaka bill

 

By Dennis Camire
Advertiser Washington Bureau

 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will delve into the Native Hawaiian federal recognition bill at a Washington briefing on Jan. 20.

 

Few details were available yesterday, but the commission's minutes indicate they were seeking experts to brief them on the constitutional, legal and civil rights policy aspects of the bill introduced by Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, D-Hawai'i.

 

The bill, which is being blocked by a group of conservative Senate Republicans, would allow Native Hawaiians to form their own government.

 

Opponents say such an idea is unconstitutional because it would create a race-based government.

 

Patricia Zell, a former chief counsel for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said she was among those invited to speak to the commission, but a scheduling conflict may prevent it.

 

The commission, whose members are appointed by the president and Congress, has subpoena power. It studies and investigates civil rights issues and complaints. Because it doesn't have enforcement powers, it refers complaints to government agencies for action.

 

Last month, Akaka said Senate leaders assured him they would work to get a vote on the bill when the session resumes this month. The Senate was scheduled to vote on a procedural motion related to the bill on Sept. 6, but that was delayed when the chamber had to deal with hurricane relief efforts and a U.S. Supreme Court nomination.

 

Reach Dennis Camire at dcamire@gns.gannett.com.

 

 

 

 

December 28, 2005

 

Governor's economic panel gets mixed reviews

 

By Allison Schaefers
aschaefers@starbulletin.com

 

REACTION to a final report by Gov. Linda Lingle's Economic Momentum Commission, which contains recommendations aimed at sustaining the state economy over the longer term, is as diverse as the panel itself.

 

Many members of Hawaii's business, social and political communities praised the panel for looking beyond the current robust economy to the future. Others criticized it for concentrating on broad social issues and said the needs of small businesses should have played a larger role. And some, who did not wish to be named, did not read the recommendations at all.

 

Most, however, agree that the recommendations, which covered 11 areas ranging from housing to taxation, education, work-force development, tourism, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, health care, the environment and Native Hawaiian issues, are a good starting point.

 

"Our recommendations cover a broad range of issues, reflecting the commission's unanimous sentiment that economic growth should not come at the expense of the quality of life of Hawaii's residents," said Don Horner, president and chief executive of First Hawaiian Bank and chairman of the commission.

 

The 30-member commission was formed this summer to develop an action plan for the state. Its members include the leadership of the Legislature as well as representatives from businesses, labor unions, nonprofits, environmental, cultural and educational organizations, government and the military.

 

Sen. Sam Slom (R, Hawaii Kai), a longtime proponent of small business who was not on the commission, criticized the makeup of the panel, saying that the members "don't represent small business, the engine that drives the economy in this state."

 

"Where was the economics?" Slom said when asked about the broad recommendations and challenges issued by the commission.

 

The commission's recommendations were endorsed by a majority of its members, Horner said.

 

"People checked their party labels at the door and debated candidly and passionately about the needs of our state and its people," he said.

 

Rep. Bev Harbin (D, Kakaako), who also serves as president of the Employers' Chamber of Commerce, said the panel stopped short of addressing some of the most important issues concerning small businesses, including workers' compensation, health care costs, tort reform, regulatory reform and the state excise tax.

 

"This is just one more of those touchy-feely, people-hugging documents," Harbin said.

 

Horner said the goal of the commission was to "set out a starting point, to suggest priorities for discussion through the political process to follow."

 

The commission's report, which is available online at www.emc-hawaii.com, is being delivered to Lingle, leaders of the state Legislature and county governments and policymakers at the Department of Education and University of Hawaii.

 

"I'm hoping that those to whom the recommendations are addressed would get together with the members of the commission or the champions of these causes to work toward a common goal," said Ted Liu, director of the state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism.

 

Members of the panel will work to see that the goals, challenges and recommendations outlined in their report will be championed by the state administration, the Legislature and through community partnerships, he said. The commission will reconvene in July.

 

Lingle's administration is already looking at some of the initiatives supported by the commission, he said.

 

Many of the recommendations will be picked up by the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan Task Force, which was created by the Legislature last year despite Lingle's veto, said Sen. Russell Kokubun (D, Puna-Kau-Kona), chairman of the task force.

 

Kokubun said that any plan for Hawaii's economic future needs to consider the needs of all members of the community.

 

"Many of us feel that there is tremendous prosperity in this state, but it's not across the board," Kokubun said. "There are many segments of the community who do not share in this prosperity. We need to consider why we have such a large homeless population and why there is so much drug abuse and look at all of these types of issues if we are to plan for the future."

 

When it comes to economics, the state can't afford not to talk about quality-of-life issues like home ownership, affordable housing and ending homelessness, said Dale Tomei, education coordinator at the Hawaii Homeownership Center.

 

No matter how good the state's economy is, it can't be sustained if the work force can't afford to buy homes, Tomei said, praising the commission for its concern about the widening gap between what the typical working family can afford and the state's median home prices.

 

"The rising cost of everything has made it a lot more difficult for a lot of our families," said Tomei, who bought his first home in 1996 in Royal Kunia after saving $36,000 with his wife, Julie.

 

Education and home ownership programs are one of the keys to ending homelessness and improving the quality of life for Hawaii's residents, he said.

 

 

 

 

Job Announcement - General Manager Position

Hawaiian Homestead Technology, Inc

 

Hawaiian Homestead Technology (HHT) is seeking to fill the position of General Manager at its Honolulu Headquarters.  This position reports directly to a five-member HHT Board of Directors and represents the top management position of this small but growing information technology company.

 

HHT is a wholly-owned subsidiary incorporated in 2003 by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA), a Hawaii nonprofit focused on community and economic development.  HHT’s mission is to sustain a viable technology industry in Hawaiian homestead communities and build local economic capacities and partnerships.

 

With two sites on two islands employing 18 individuals, HHT’s information technology focus is in document conversion technologies servicing private and government sector clients.  Unique as a for-profit company with its status as a social enterprise, HHT is driven by client customer service, profitability, job creation and capacity building in Hawaiian homestead communities.

 

The General Manager position at HHT requires an individual with strong management and business skills, active and results-oriented organizational skills and collaborative   approaches to achieving goals.  Candidates should have some experience working and partnering with community organizations and a background in computer technology, software processes and systems.

 

HHT is seeking an individual with a high energy, interest for business operations and a passion for its social mission.  Interested individuals may submit resumes via fax, mail or email to:

 

Hawaiian Homestead Technology

Attention: Human Resources

33 South King Street, Suite 520

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Website:  http://www.hhtech.net

Ph:  808.523.6447       Fax: 808.521.4111

Email:  info@hhtech.net

 

 

 

 

January 2, 2006

 

A tribal school expands

"Share your experience with friends and family"

 

GREEN BAY WI
Patrick L. Delabrue

For Tina Webster, the College of Menominee Nation’s new Green Bay campus is more than a learning institution.

“I feel this school is more about caring and understanding a person’s well-being,” Webster said of being a student at the tribal college. “It’s more down to earth here. It’s more about respect as a human being and not just about learning.”

Webster, 28, was one of many students, staff, educators and government representatives gathered at the campus Oct. 27 to celebrate the grand opening. The drum groups Straight Across and Wind Eagle sang honor songs, and cultural preservation officer Dave Grignon gave an invocation in the Menominee language.

Guest speakers extolled the virtues of higher education and recalled struggles and triumphs of the Menominee people past and present.

With the school seal as a backdrop, college President Verna Fowler noted how far the tribe has come in the face of poverty and the ruinous policy of termination.

“It was really no small feat that one of the poorest Indian tribes in the state of Wisconsin and, according to the 2000 Census, [in] the 13th poorest county in the United States has established in less than 13 years an institution of higher education that is already known internationally and is recognized for its quality of education,” Fowler said.

That quality has been evident by the rapid growth of the student body and a need for a new site in the Green Bay area.

In the 2005 spring semester, 120 students were enrolled at the Green Bay site, mostly members of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin. This fall, 168 enrolled.

“We were really cramped,” said Katherine Hall, interim site coordinator. “We had five people crawling over one another in one little office, and the classrooms were jammed.

“In listening sessions and student suggestion boxes, the students made heartfelt pleas for a larger site,” Hall said.

Their pleas were not ignored. Plans had been in the works for a new facility, but the students’ immediate needs accelerated the process.

With more classrooms, a vastly expanded computer lab and a commons area, College of Menominee Nation students expressed their pride in the new campus.

Student government president Gina Gregor was impressed by the large-scale upgrade. “I was at the old site,” she said. “There were two classrooms and no windows. It was way too small to suit the needs of a growing student body.

“We can compete with bigger colleges now because we have the space. We have the facilities we couldn’t offer at the old site. It’s nice to see, from the time I started to now, how CMN has grown.”

Many students who took time from classes to attend the celebration said not only the extra room and expanded services of the college but also the location and community spirit make for a high-quality education experience.

For Shannon Hill, a Green Bay resident and Oneida tribal member, relating to the other students and faculty on a personal level is just as important as the convenient location.

“For me, it wouldn’t matter where classes were held, as long as it involved the same people I’ve met here at CMN,” he said. “It’s a neat place, and I’m learning a lot here. It’s not only educational. It’s spiritual.”

That feeling of community and spirituality pervaded the celebration and was the general consensus of students and staff.

Janet Malcolm, administrative assistant at the Green Bay campus, expounded on the philosophy of the tribal college:

“The school is Native based. Your culture is here; your people are here. If we sent our young people [who] haven’t had much experience with the world, if we send them into bigger cities with bigger schools, they could get lost so easily. They could get lost emotionally and spiritually. But here it’s the same community with the same values, and I think that helps keep everything together.”

Retaining that sense of community, coordinator Hall said is important for the college, especially in the face of expansion and a growing enrollment.

“We have a high number of first-generation students,” she said. “That means they have not come in watching their parents, older brothers and sisters get their degrees. They might be the first one in their families. Therefore, they may not come in with a lot of experience or confidence.

“So having that smaller, one-on-one interaction with faculty then gives them a better chance to use this opportunity for a good academic education.”

The expansion of the Green Bay site is evidence that many students are taking advantage of educational opportunities afforded them by the tribal college. Much of the advertising is by word of mouth.

“If you have a good experience here, it’s common sense that you’re going to share your experience with friends and family,” Malcolm said.

Webster echoed that. “I have a cousin who comes here now,” she said. “She came all the way from Phoenix to come to school here. She had a scholarship to go there, but she decided to come to CMN.”

Asked why her cousin did so, Webster smiled and replied as if the answer was obvious. “I told her we were all here, and it’s a good place and she should come and join us.”


Patrick L. Delabrue, Menominee, attends College of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wis. He is a 2005 graduate of the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. Photographer Dale Kakkak is Communication and Project Specialist at the Sustainable Development Institute at College of Menominee Nation. This story was originally published by reznet (www.reznetnews.org), the online newspaper written by Native American college students around the country.S

 

 

 

 

January 3, 2006

 

Molokai grateful for selfless family's care

 

By Gary T. Kubota
gkubota@starbulletin.com

 

Jannah Maliu is grateful that her husband's grandmother Aulani has received dialysis treatment on Molokai, instead of having to go to Oahu as so many Friendly Isle residents once did several years ago.

 

Maliu said one of the major supporters of the dialysis center has been the owners at Molokai Drugs Inc., a family-run operation that donated lease space for 10 years at its Kamoi Center in Kaunakakai.

 

"They give from the heart," Maliu said. "They are a very loving and giving family."

 

Molokai Drugs Inc., the only private full-service pharmacy on the Friendly Isle, recently celebrated its 70th year in business, recognizing three generations of family members in the pharmacy profession and the contributions of its founder, Richard Sakata.

 

Sakata rode on a pineapple barge to Molokai in 1935 to become the island's first pharmacist, family members said.

 

Electricity had just arrived on the island two years prior, and there was no fanfare when he landed at Kaunakakai at night, according to the family.

 

"When he arrived at Kaunakakai Wharf, it was pitch black except for one light in the middle of town from the old Mid-Nite Inn," said family spokeswoman Kimberly Mikami Svetin, one of his granddaughters.

 

"For 24 years, Grandpa never took a long vacation," she added.

 

Svetin, president of Molokai Drugs Inc., said her father, David Mikami, who married the Sakatas' only child, Judy, became the island's second pharmacist in 1969.

 

David's brother Jon was the island's third pharmacist, and David's daughter Kelly Go returned to Molokai in 2002 to work as a pharmacist.

 

Residents note family members have donated much to the community.

 

B.J. Dudoit, a resident, said the family owns part of the land used for softball and Little League baseball in the center of Kaunakakai town and has allowed the community to use it without charge. "They've been wonderful," Dudoit said.

 

Maliu said the family, which owns a snack shop at the Kamoi Center, also donates various treats to T-ball players on the weekends.

 

"They're a very loving and giving family," Maliu said.

 

Svetin said the donations are a way for the family to express their thanks to the community and customers.

 

Svetin said her parents and late grandparents have placed a high value on community service, continuing to list their names in the telephone directory to make themselves available for emergency requests.

 

She recalled her father and grandfather sometimes returning to the pharmacy at night to fill an emergency prescription.

 

"It wasn't just a job; it was a duty. It was a responsibility for my grandpa, my dad and uncle. Some of the situations were life and death," Svetin said.

 

 

 

 

December 30, 2005

 

Natives concerned about effects of herbicides

By R.A. DILLON
Staff Writer

 

Friday, December 30, 2005 - Efforts to revise the Bureau of Land Management's battle plan against invasive plant species on federal land is drawing fire from Alaska tribes concerned about the effect of herbicides on subsistence gathering.

 

The federal agency is updating and consolidating its environmental impact statement for the use of herbicides in 17 Western states, including Alaska. The new EIS is needed to keep pace with the newest products available to kill wild plants foreign to the state, said JoLynn Worley, a BLM spokeswoman in Nevada.

 

"The analysis that were done in the past were out of date and covered only four basic regions," she said. "Since then new herbicides have come on the market."

 

The environmental impact statement, or EIS study, covers 85.5 million acres of federal land in Alaska, much of it in remote areas of the state used for subsistence hunting and gathering by Alaska Natives. It is the first study done for herbicide use in the state.

 

The agency is collecting public comment on the study through Jan. 9. Public meetings were held in the Lower 48, but not in Alaska.

 

Steve Sumida, deputy director of the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, said the agency is required under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to consult with tribal organizations before conducting a study that could have a direct impact on whether chemicals are used on BLM-managed lands.

 

"They have an obligation under government-to-government relations to come up and talk to the tribes that could be affected by these changes," he said.

 

Alaska Natives harvest a variety of greens, flowers and berries, much of it on public land, as part of their traditional subsistence diet. That tradition could be could be damaged by the use of herbicides, Sumida said.

 

There is also concern that the use of herbicides could endanger fish through runoff into rivers and lakes.

 

"There is greater cultural significance and nutritional reliance on traditional foods in Alaska than the BLM is used to seeing in the Lower 48," Sumida said.

 

The council wants BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to meet with tribes in areas where herbicides are likely to be used before the study is finalized.

 

"They have to consider the economic and cultural impact of this on Alaska Native tribes," he said.

 

The agency maintains the study is only an umbrella document encompassing 17 Western states that does not automatically approve the use of herbicides in any particular location.

 

"When individual projects start coming up for consideration, the local BLM office would be required to notify any land owners or Native American tribes in the area," Worley said.

 

The BLM started looking at revising the EIS for the western part of the country in fall 2001. Public meetings were held in the Lower 48 in 2002 on a draft of the study.

 

The council, a consortium of Alaska's 229 federally recognized tribes, found out about the study through an electronic notice posted online on the federal registry of actions.

 

"If they have a policy they're working on, the indigenous people should have meaningful input into the process," Sumida said. "They're acting like they don't have anything planned here, but then they should take Alaska out of the generic action."

 

Agency officials in Alaska argue that herbicides are a needed tool in the fight against invasive species such as yellow toadflax, white sweet clover, knapweed, Canada thistle, sow-thistle and orange hawkweed.

 

"We're really at a unique situation compared with the rest of the U.S.," said Ruth Gronquist, Fairbanks-based state weed coordinator for BLM. "We're still at a level that we can keep invasive species from taking hold."

 

The risk of more invasive species arriving from the Lower 48 and Canada increases each year as the number of frost-free days grows.

 

"We have about 70 plants we're worried about," Gronquist said. "Some are already here and some are on the way."

 

The current method of combating the spread of noxious weeds foreign to Alaska is to pull or dig them out plant by plant. The use of herbicides gives land managers another tool in keeping invasive species from taking over a landscape and forcing out indigenous native flora.

 

Before herbicides could be applied, BLM would have to conduct an environmental assessment and get approval from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The agency would meet with local residents, including tribal organizations, as part of the public notification requirement of the assessment process.

 

"The EIS does not mean that we have carte blanche to go out and put herbicides on the landscape," Gronquist said. "It would be my intention to go to the villages and meet with the people who are going to be affected."

 

The BLM study encompasses all federally managed land in Alaska, but Gronquist said most of the invasive species are in the subarctic regions of the state.

 

"The only invasive species we've found in the Arctic is dandelions and we wouldn't spray those," she said.

 

The agency has identified only one place in the Arctic--a wayside on the Dalton Highway--where the use of herbicides might be appropriate to stop the spread of yellow toadflax. Any use of herbicides, though, would be applied on a spot basis directly to individual plants, Gronquist said.

 

"We don't have any plans at this time to go out and apply herbicides," she said. "But it provides us with another tool in our tool box because there are some plants that are difficult to control any other way."

 

Herbicides would be used only as a "last resort," Gronquist said.

 

While the tribal council does not oppose the eradication of invasive species, it maintains Alaska requires an individual response plan because of the unique land-use issues among Alaska Natives.

 

"The minority population here will be disproportionately affected by these actions because of the overwhelming reliance on traditional foods," Sumida said.

 

Comments on the study can be sent to Brian Amme, project manager, PO Box 1200, Reno, NV 89520, by fax: (775) 861-6712 or e-mail: vegeis@nv.blm.gov .

 

Staff writer R.A. Dillon can be reached at 459-7503 or rdillon@newsminer.com .

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Tuesday, January 3, 2006

 

Many unsure of span's purpose

 

By Will Hoover
Advertiser Leeward O'ahu Writer

 

NANAKULI — Folks in these parts are still trying to make sense of a new and imposing $2 million concrete bridge that blocks the ocean sunset view from Farrington Highway, goes no place and currently serves as an elaborate fishing platform and skateboard ramp for local kids.

 

Oceanside of Farrington Highway, between Nanakuli and Laumania avenues, the city and county bridge looks out of place, a massive structure that looms some 12 feet above the virtually hidden road-level Farrington Highway bridge a mere 20 paces away.

 

The gray two-lane edifice is not part of Farrington Highway. It leads to a short side street in one direction, and the Nanakuli Beach parking lot in the other.

 

Some residents, who have complained loudly to officials, are referring to the nearly completed Nanakuli Stream Bridge as "Eyesore Bridge."

 

Neal Barrett, 47, who lives nearby on Keaulana Avenue, marvels at how tough it has been in the past to get the government to build anything in Nanakuli.

 

"And when they finally do, it's a bridge that doesn't go anywhere," he said.

 

Added Jake Kaiu, 22, who says the trestle's incline makes for pretty good skateboarding: "A lot of people are saying, 'Why'd they build the bridge?' "

 

A large sign that creaks and sways next to the tenth of a mile span explains that it's part of the "Wai'anae Coast Emergency Alternate Route, Nanakuli Makai Road, Phase 2" — but people here aren't sure how that would work, and they aren't much enamored with the thing in any case.

 

"This is another Band-Aid solution that doesn't heal the problem," said Cathy Momoa, 45, who lives on Pohakunui Avenue, the street the new bridge leads to that's parallel to Farrington Highway. "We need a road of our own going in and out of Nanakuli and Wai'anae. We need an H-4."

 

TRAFFIC STANDSTILLS

 

The years-in-the-works concept behind the emergency alternative route was to provide a patchwork escape for trapped motorists whenever the 17-mile, four-lane Farrington Highway — the only road in and out of the Wai'anae Coast — comes to a standstill.

 

And standstills on this road happen all too frequently because of car wrecks, water main breaks, and once, for 13 hours, an armed hostage standoff.

 

Even as Momoa was speaking, four vehicles on the highway collided right in front of her home.

 

"See," she said, unfazed by the multiple fender bender in which no one was hurt. "That goes on all the time. I've seen death out here. I've seen motorcycles and trucks fly through the air. I've seen it all."

 

The circuitous emergency access road — some portions of which have yet to be built — was to run continuously from Nanakuli to Makaha, primarily over linked up public and private back roads.

 

But a hitch in the grand scheme came when those who own or control two of the planned sections recently balked at being part of the plan.

 

Honolulu City Councilman, Todd Apo, who represents the coast and who inherited the alternative route problem from a previous administration, is confident an agreement can be reached with the company that recently purchased part of one of those sections, a straight-of-way north of Farrington known as Pa'akea Road.

 

That proposed route involves a yet-to-be-built extension the landowners believe will greatly increase traffic, and with it, the company's liability, Apo said. The owners oppose the use of the route on a continuous basis, he said.

 

"However, if that new section is only going to be open during an emergency, then they (company officials) don't have a problem," he said.

 

"Assuming that the Pa'akea connection is open only for emergencies, you would be able to use the emergency access route from basically Kahe Point all the way to Wai'anae. You just wouldn't be able to get from Wai'anae to Makaha."

 

Apo and others agree it's doubtful that a deal can be reached on a second section of land that would provide an alternative route between Wai'anae and Makaha.

 

Apo said he understands that the bridge, which was built in half a year, comes as an unpleasant visual surprise, but he said since it's 90 percent finished, not much can be done.

 

"The only option at this point, given that it's built, is to take it down," he said.

 

A 'WHITE ELEPHANT'

 

State Sen. Colleen Hanabusa, who represents the Wai'anae Coast, says the city went a bridge too far in planning the mess.

 

The Harris administration, "never thought it all the way through. They just wanted to tell the community, 'You take the garbage dumps, you take everything else nobody wants, so we're giving you this.' "

 

Hanabusa said the city failed to make it clear to the community that the new bridge, unlike the older Farrington Highway bridge, would be intrusive because its designers were required to adhere to modern federal flood and safety specifications.

 

She said residents — in their desire to have some kind of fix to endless road closure nightmares — never fully understood what the bridge would look like or that the patchwork route would not be an alternative to Farrington, but one used only during emergencies.

 

And now, said Jo Jordan, who heads the parks committee for the Wai'anae Coast Neighborhood Board, with the whole alternate route concept uncertain, it's questionable when, or if, the bridge will be used for its intended purpose.

 

Jordan's also not convinced the Pa'akea Road issue will be satisfactorily resolved.

 

"So, we're back to the drawing board on the Makaha section, and in the meantime, our Pa'akea location has gone up in smoke," Jordan said.

 

As things stand, unless a bottleneck causing Farrington to be shut down falls within the half-mile stretch next to the bridge, the new trestle is worthless as an escape hatch, Jordan said.

 

"This is a white elephant that we'll probably use once in the next five years," she said.

 

Reach Will Hoover at whoover@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

Posted: December 30, 2005

 

Congress reauthorizes anti-violence act

 

by: Kay Humphrey / Indian Country Today

 

WASHINGTON - Congress has passed stronger legislation protecting Native women in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

The House of Representatives and the Senate voted with overwhelming support Dec. 17 to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act while adding for the first time a tribal title that increases the resources available to tribal governments to combat the abuse of Native women.

For tribes, the tribal title is a historic piece of legislation. In the bill, Congress acknowledged that the federal government's trust responsibility creates an obligation to assist tribal governments in protecting Indian women. It further reaffirms tribal sovereignty in allowing tribes to strengthen their own legal remedies against offenders. The bill now goes to President Bush for a signature.

Originally passed in 1994, VAWA created the first federal legislation acknowledging domestic violence and sexual assaults as crimes, providing federal resources to encourage community-coordinated responses to combat the violence. Its reauthorization in 2000 improved the foundation established in 1994 by creating a much-needed legal assistance program for victims and expanding the definition of crime to cover dating violence and stalking.

''VAWA contains provisions and support for jurisdictions to address crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and dating violence. The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act provides for the additional enhancement of programming and support to American Indian and Alaska Native women through the establishment of Title IX 'Safety for Indian Women,' the historic recognition by the federal government of the perpetration of violence against Indian women,'' said Terry Henry, director of the Department of Public Safety for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

''The purpose of this title is to decrease the incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise their sovereign authority to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women and to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian women are held accountable for their criminal behavior,'' Henry said.

Native leaders from the National Congress of American Indians worked diligently on the language of the tribal provision carefully making sure tribes would have sovereignty in tapping legal remedies for domestic violence and sexual abuse as well as increasing monetary resources directed at education, prevention and assisting victims.

NCAI President Joe Garcia said: ''The passage of this life-saving legislation has been a top priority of NCAI and I commend congressional leaders and the NCAI Task Force on Violence Against Women for all of the work they have done to make this a reality.''

The tribal provisions included in VAWA 2005 constitute a vital and historic step toward giving tribal governments the tools they need to protect Indian women.

''Statistics clearly show a deeply rooted problem in protecting women in Indian country, and this legislation will give tribal governments the tools they need to protect our women, whom our cultures hold in very high esteem,'' Garcia said.

NCAI Recording Secretary Juana Majel said, ''VAWA 2005 recognizes the sovereign authority of Indian tribes to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women. Respect, not violence, is a fundamental belief that Native peoples have upheld from our very beginnings as nations.

''Lifting the prior restrictions placed upon grants allows tribal governments to turn to this inner strength, the beliefs and practices that held women sacred,'' Majel said.

NCAI Executive Director Jackie Johnson said, ''I am very pleased that Congress has formalized the mechanism for effectuating the government-to-government relationship with the Department of Justice by calling on the department to conduct annual consultations with tribal governments and creating a deputy director for tribal affairs in the Office on Violence Against Women.

''NCAI looks forward to working with the OVW to implement the new tribal provisions included in VAWA 2005,'' she said.

Edward Reina, director of public safety for the Tohono O'odham Nation, said, ''VAWA 2005 requires the attorney general to permit Indian law enforcement agencies, in cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, to enter information into the federal criminal information databases and to obtain information from the databases.

''This change enhances our efforts to include tribal police in the national criminal information sharing system. It will increase safety for Indian women and also safety for tribal law enforcement officers,'' said Reina.

According to Justice Department statistics, American Indian women are at high risk of homicide, with homicide being the third leading cause of death for Native women. Of Native women murdered, more than 75 percent were killed by a family member, acquaintance or someone they knew.

Seventy percent of American Indians who are the victims of violent crimes are victimized by someone of a different race.

In drafting the new legislation, Congress also found that one out of every three Indian and Alaska Native women are raped in their lifetime and experience the violent crime of battery at a rate of 23.2 per 1,000, compared with 8 per 1,000 among Caucasian women.

For more information about violence against Indian women or VAWA, visit www.ncai.org or www.sacred-circle.com.

Kay Humphrey is a public awareness advocate for Sacred Circle National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women.

 

 

 

 

January 3, 2006

 

State gets federal housing grants

 

Star-Bulletin staff

 

The state has received two federal grants totaling more than $1.5 million to help homeless, elderly and disabled residents.

 

A $1.1 million federal grant will go to four social service agencies that help the homeless find permanent and transitional housing, according to the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

 

The other $450,000 grant will fund programs at Kalakaua Homes and the Makua Alii and Paoakalani housing programs to help elderly and disabled public housing residents become more independent, according to the state agency.

 

The four agencies that will split the $1.1 million grant include $361,440 for Steadfast Housing Development Corp.'s Shelter Plus Care Eono project on Maui and $349,020 for Gregory House Programs Shelter Plus Care program in Honolulu, which provide permanent housing for people who are homeless and have a disability.

 

Women Helping Women will get $77,536 to provide emergency housing for domestic violence victims. Lastly, Maui Economic Concerns of the Community Inc. will receive $204,899 to provide a literacy program and an outpatient substance abuse program.

 

The grants come from programs within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

 

In addition to the two federal grants, Housing and Community Development Corp. officials said they supported the grant application of the nonprofit organization Kokua Kalihi Valley, which also was recently awarded a federal grant of $375,000 to help elderly and disabled residents of Kuhio Park Terrace and Kalihi Valley Homes.

 

 

 

 

Posted: January 02, 2006

 

New internet site addresses sacred site destruction

 

by: Staff Reports / Indian Country Today

 

ISLAND PARK, Idaho - Native Earthworks Preservation, an organization devoted to stopping the destruction and desecration of American Indian sacred sites and burial mounds, has launched a new Web site: www.nepsite.org.

NEP was founded in 2003 by John Koda Miller, John Red Hawk Wills and Linda Benfield.

Miller, the group's spokesman, travels throughout the United States to speak about the importance of preserving Native burial mounds. ''Amazingly,'' Miller said in a recent interview, ''many people think burial mounds are protected, and that most are on public lands like National Park Service land. But many are on private property, and every year, more and more are endangered by development.

''NEP members are the voice of the ancestors. It is time that people take on this growing problem of neglect, abuse and disgrace that has happened to our sacred sites,'' said Miller.

Imagine driving to a cemetery where a family member is buried and finding that it is now sitting under a condo development. This would not happen today, because cemeteries are protected and many are maintained with local tax dollars. Not so with land where our nation's first people were laid to rest. And it isn't just burial sites. Medicine wheels, vision sites and other sacred areas are relentlessly slated for development, and artifacts are found and sold - not returned to tribes.

Some states require archaeological review of large-scale developments and public works projects to see if construction would harm archaeological treasures. Some state laws require that the nearest tribe be notified if burial mounds and artifacts are discovered. Tribes can repatriate the remains, roads can be rerouted or developers can set the sacred space aside.

Miller said national legislation is needed to protect all burial sites on private land, and to require that sonar be used to search for artifacts and bones at large development sites. He named the legislation the John Wills Act after NEP cofounder Red Hawk Wills, who fought for sacred site protection in Ohio.

The act would require:

* That before any major construction, sonar be used to ensure that there is not a burial ground or bodies beneath the ground.

* Once bodies are found, the site must follow the guidelines of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

* Any tribe within the location of the site must be notified.

* States with no tribal governments must contact the Congress of American Indians.

* Every off-reservation find must be noted, counted and marked by American Indians before excavation.

* Any Native sites with more than three bodies must be labeled a tribal burial ground.

A petition asking Congress to pass the John Wills Act can be accessed at the NEP site. So far, it has more than 600 signatures.

Also on the site are a link to sign up for NEP's newsletter, a history of the Mound Builders, Native news, links to members of the Congressional Native America Caucus and links to NEP chapters.

NAGPRA, a federal law passed in 1990, provides a process for museums and federal agencies to return Native cultural items - human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony - to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. It does not extend to private land.

Miller said NEP is looking for archaeologists and historians to join nonprofessional NEP members to fight sacred site destruction, help raise awareness of the John WIlls Act and provide NEP's Web site with historical information about sacred sites.

 

 

 

 

Dec 31, 8:57 PM EST

 

Federal government to end support for American Indian museums

 

Associated Press (AP)

 

BROWNING, Mont. (AP) -- The Museum of the Plains Indian stands to lose its federal funding and close in less than two years, unless other support is found.

 

The Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior plans to eliminate funding for the Browning museum, and for American Indian museums in Rapid City, S.D., and Anadarko, Okla., the Great Falls Tribune reported in Sunday's editions.

 

Absent other support, the Interior Department expects to lock the doors of the Browning museum on Oct. 1, 2007. Collections of war shirts, necklaces and tools historically used in daily life on the Northern Plains would be shipped to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

 

Established in 1941, the Museum of the Plains Indian has tribal arts and artifacts of the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Sioux, Assiniboine, Arapaho, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Flathead, Chippewa and Cree. The museum houses historical clothing, horse gear, weapons, household implements, baby carriers and toys.

 

The Indian Arts and Crafts Board acquired the three museums in the 1950s from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as the bureau faced budget reductions.

 

The board has an annual budget of about $1 million and allocates some $450,000 of that to the three museums. The Browning museum's annual budget is roughly $138,000.

 

The focus of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board is shifting from museums to the prevention of Indian craft counterfeiting, and prosecution of counterfeiters.

 

Fraud cheats Indian artists and the people who buy their work, said Scott Cameron, a Department of the Interior official.

 

"They are deflating the market, too," Cameron said. "Something made in Malaysia might sell for $10 while something made by hand by a real live Indian might cost $75." Cameron said the museum funding is "the only realistic place" to obtain money for the work against fraud.

 

"Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience, not a national audience," he added.

 

"With millions of people walking through the National Museum of the American Indian, there is a solid vehicle at the national level to expose people to Indian arts and crafts."

 

But Blackfeet artist Darrell Norman of Browning notes the Museum of the Plains Indian is prominent in German and French travel guides. Norman's wife, Angelika Harden-Norman, is a native of Germany who visited Browning to see the museum. Now she owns the nearby Lodgepole Gallery and Tipi Village.

 

Museum records indicate there were 15,000 visitors during the tourist season, which spans the warm-weather months. Places from which visitors came included Europe, Australia, Thailand and China, said Carleen McEvers, the museum secretary.

 

"In an ideal world, it would be best if the museums continue to exist and were supported adequately where they are," said Rick West, director of the National Museum of the American Indian. But if the museums close and their collections must be moved, the national museum will take them, West said, adding that "I could not put a price tag on those collections."

 

Glacier County is one of Montana's poorest places and "we really need to attract visitors, people from around the nation and the world," said Mike DesRosier, a county commissioner.

 

"They do spend their dollars here," said DesRosier, who drives a tour bus. "They also spend their money in grocery stores and motels, and that's important for Glacier County."

 

Tourists come to this part of Montana to see Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, he said. "They want to see Indians and Indian things," he said.

 

At its recent convention in Tulsa, Okla., the National Congress of the American Indian passed a resolution of support for the regional museums.

 

The Blackfeet Tribal Council is "looking at where we can find funding" for the museum, said Pat Thomas, council chairman.

 

"We definitely will save the museum one way or the other," Thomas said.

 

Some museum supporters wish state government would get involved.

 

State money is not available at this time, but "we can investigate why funding is on the chopping block," said Major Robinson, a state economic development specialist.

 

A spokesman for Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said the congressman will fight to keep the museum open.

 

"These D.C. bean counters don't understand the cultural importance of these three museums," said Erik Iverson, Rehberg's chief of staff. "Denny does understand the importance, not just in Indian Country, but in Montana as a whole."

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Thursday, December 29, 2005

 

Audit says state fails to protect summit resources

 

By Kevin Dayton
Advertiser Big Island Bureau

 

HILO, Hawai'i — State auditor Marion Higa is faulting the state for failing to enforce lease and permit conditions on astronomy facilities atop Mauna Kea, a criticism that comes as plans advance for up to six new telescopes on the mountain.

 

"Without vigilant monitoring of its observatory tenants for compliance with conservation district use permits, the university risks damage to the summit, as well as other areas of the science reserve used by its tenants," according to the audit released yesterday.

 

The auditor's report noted the state Department of Land and Natural Resources fined the University of Hawai'i $20,000 last year after DLNR found unauthorized equipment and construction materials at four observatories overseen by the UH Institute for Astronomy.

 

The DLNR countered that it does monitor compliance with permits, citing those same fines it imposed on the observatories last year.

 

The 13,796-foot summit of Mauna Kea is considered sacred to Hawaiians, and is home to rare plant and insect species. It also is home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes and is a premier site for astronomy.

 

At the W.M. Keck Observatory, NASA plans to build four to six smaller telescopes next to the existing twin Keck telescopes in an array that would produce sharper images. That effort has been opposed for years by critics who say there has been too much development on the mountain.

 

The audit concludes that while DLNR and the university have improved their management of the mountain since the last audit in 1998, "much remains to be done."

 

The audit praised the hiring of five rangers to oversee the mountain, calling that effort "central to the improvement of resource protection on the mountain."

 

However, the report questioned why the University of Hawai'i still doesn't have the authority it needs to write rules to limit public access to the portion of the mountain the university leases for the 13,321-acre Mauna Kea Science Reserve.

 

Some critics have oppose such rules because they might limit public access to the mountain or limit cultural practices there, but the audit contends the public will have a chance to raise those issues during rule-making.

 

UH plans to ask the Legislature for the authority to limit public access to the science reserve, according to the audit.

 

The audit also faulted the university for issuing rules governing commercial activity on the mountain, although UH obtained authority to write those rules in 2000.

 

The report also notes that cultural and natural resources haven't been inventoried on Mauna Kea, leaving open the possibility that conditions could deteriorate and no one would know.

 

For example, almost three-quarters of the UH-controlled Mauna Kea Science Reserve still hasn't been inventoried for archeological sites. On the 3,000 acres that were surveyed, 93 archeological sites were found, and the audit cited reports that some sites on the mountain have been "altered." A study of the area is planned for next year.

 

The report also faults the state Department of Land and Natural resources for failing to complete historic preservation or cultural management plans for the mountain.

 

"Without planned protections and commitments to implement plans, irreversible damage to Mauna Kea's cultural and historic resources is likely to continue," the audit warned.

 

The report also warns that vacancies at the DLNR's State Historic Preservation Division suggest the division may not be able to meet its duties on Mauna Kea, including monitoring historic sites and citing people who tamper with them.

 

The report also noted that there was no consensus on what limits should be placed on future development of astronomy facilities on the mountain, and no "carrying capacity" for Mauna Kea was ever defined.

 

AUDIT FINDINGS

Among the findings of a state audit of the Mauna Kea Science Reserve:

 

For more information, go to www.state.hi.us/auditor

 

Reach Kevin Dayton at kdayton@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

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