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June 16, 2006

 

Native Hawaiians find their voice

 

But the U.S. is still devaluing its island allies.

 

By James D. Houston

LA Times

 

JAMES D. HOUSTON divides his time between California and Hawaii. His new novel, "Bird of Another Heaven," will be published early next year.

 

LAST WEEK, a bill recognizing the rights of native Hawaiians failed in the Senate. Though a bipartisan majority supported the legislation, it came up four votes short of the 60 needed to bring it to the floor for a full debate.

 

Democrat Daniel K. Akaka, the first U.S. senator of Hawaiian background, who introduced the bill in 2000, had persevered through six years of procedural stalls and delays. In the end, 41 Republicans voted no, backed by the White House, which strongly opposed the bill because it would reverse the country's melting-pot tradition and "divide people by their race."

 

The banner of colorblind pluralism can come in very handy when someone is asking the government to acknowledge rights that have been withheld along ethnic lines since the end of the 19th century.

 

We heard a much different note from the White House in 1993, on the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of Hawaii's sovereign government, when President Clinton signed into law what's known as the Resolution of Apology. It admitted that the U.S. supplied military aid to the conspirators and contributed to "the deprivation of the rights of native Hawaiians to self-determination."

 

Until 1893, Hawaii was our ally, recognized as an independent kingdom. But in the spirit of Manifest Destiny, the United States yearned to push farther west, to get a step closer to lucrative Asian markets and to establish a military hub — Pearl Harbor — in the mid-Pacific. Meanwhile, the sons and grandsons of New England missionaries came of age in Hawaii feeling that same destiny in their blood. For them, joining with the United States seemed inevitable, the path to protection and profit, trading advantage and the end of tariffs on their sugar.

 

In January 1893, with the aid of U.S. Marines, Queen Liliuokalani's government was overthrown by force. Five years later, Hawaii was annexed to the U.S. by the Senate. No one asked the Hawaiians. In fact, in 1897 a petition protesting annexation bearing 21,000 Hawaiian signatures — a little more than half the native population — was sent from Honolulu to Washington.

 

Soon the Hawaiian language would be stolen just like the kingdom. Early in the 20th century, it was banned in schools and in public offices. It was a devastating policy. When an indigenous language is devalued, replaced with another, the culture suffers, and something in the spirit suffers too.

 

That colonial cloud finally began to lift in the 1960s, thanks in part to the civil rights movement and a widespread reclaiming of ethnic pride. In Hawaii, it started with music and dance. The traditional hula came back to life. Old songs almost forgotten were sung by new generations of performers. Drumming and chanting were revived, as was long-distance voyaging, along with navigational skills that had allowed Polynesians to explore and settle the Pacific. Once again schools offered classes in the native tongue. What is now called the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance spawned a new political consciousness and a new level of dialogue about land rights, access to resources and the status of native Hawaiians vis-a-vis the state and federal governments.

 

The resolution that Clinton signed was a major step. Its language is unequivocal: "The Congress apologizes to native Hawaiians on behalf of the people of the United States for the overthrow …." Congress "urges the president of the United States to also acknowledge the ramifications of the overthrow … and to support reconciliation efforts between the United States and the native Hawaiian people."

 

Akaka's bill was an effort to act on that mandate. It laid out a process for creating a "native Hawaiian governing entity" that could negotiate with the federal government, much as most Native American tribes negotiate now. This entity could address such matters as the long-contested status of 1.4 million acres ceded by the federal government to the new state of Hawaii in 1959, to be "held as a public trust for five purposes, one of which is for the betterment of conditions for native Hawaiians." The bill then stressed that the assets and revenues associated with these lands "have never been completely inventoried or segregated."

 

Even in Hawaii, not everyone lamented the outcome of the Senate vote. Some critics argue that special treatment for Hawaiians could come at the expense of other ethnic groups. And some activists in the sovereignty movement believe it's wrong for Hawaiians to negotiate on any level with the government that betrayed them.

 

Though the bill is dead for this session of Congress, that doesn't mean the issues will go away. Akaka will try again, or some revised form of legislation will emerge. What underlies the bill isn't secession, as some opponents fear, nor racial divisiveness. It is a people's long journey to recover a voice that was almost lost. Fueled by the ongoing cultural revival, that voice grows stronger day by day.

 

 

 

 

6/12/2006

 

Akaka Bill Empowers Native Hawaiians

 

By U.S. Sen. Barack Obama

 

Editor's note: Reprinted from the Congressional record on June 7 and 8, 2006

 

Although I am a proud Illinoisan, proud to be the junior Senator from Illinois, many of you know that I was born and raised in Hawaii.

 

Anyone who has been fortunate enough to visit or call Hawaii home, as I once did, and as my grandmother and sister and adorable niece still do, anybody who has spent time in Hawaii cannot help but recognize the uniqueness of the place.

 

In addition to its scenic landscapes and rich history, it is the living legacy of aloha--the spirit of openness and friendliness that is ingrained in the shared, local culture that shapes and enhances each island encounter and experience.

 

Throughout Hawaii's history, individuals of all nationalities, races and creeds have found solace in Hawaii. In large part this stems from the culture of Native Hawaiians, who have always acknowledged and celebrated diversity.

 

This incorporation of new cultures and practices over the years has strengthened and unified the community. And as the child of a black father and a white mother, I know firsthand how important Native Hawaiian efforts are to foster a culture of acceptance and of tolerance.

 

For this reason, I am proud to join Senator Daniel Akaka, D-HI, to extend the Federal policy of self-governance and self-determination to Native Hawaiians. Native Hawaiians are a vital part of our Nation's cultural fabric, and they will continue to shape our country in the years to come.

 

The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act provides both the process and opportunity for Native Hawaiian communities to engage themselves in and reorganize their governing entity to establish a federally recognized government-to-government relationship with the United States of America.

 

The process set forth in the bill empowers Native Hawaiians to explore and address the longstanding issues resulting from the overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii.

 

There are three main provisions of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act.

 

First, the bill establishes the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations in the Department of the Interior to serve as a liaison between the Native Hawaiians and the United States.

 

Second, the bill establishes the Native Hawaiian Interagency Coordinating Group that will be comprised of Federal officials from agencies that administer Native Hawaiian programs. These provisions are intended to increase coordination between Native Hawaiians and the Federal Government.

 

And third, the bill provides a process for reorganizing the Native Hawaiian government entity. Once the entity is reorganized and recognized, there is a process of negotiations to resolve longstanding issues such as the transfer of and jurisdiction over lands, natural resources, and assets.

 

Support for this bill comes not only from the people of Hawaii but from people all across America. This bill also is supported by the indigenous peoples of America, including American Indians and Alaska natives. As Americans, we pride ourselves in safeguarding the practice and ideas of liberty, justice, and freedom. By supporting this bill, we can continue this great American tradition and fulfill this promise by affording Native Hawaiians the opportunity to recognize their governing entity and have it recognized by the Federal Government.

 

As someone who grew up in Hawaii and has enormous love for the Hawaiian culture, I also think it is important, as I know the two Senators from Hawaii will acknowledge, that there have been difficulties within the community of Native Hawaiians, oftentimes despite the fact that we are visitors to Hawaii; that many times particularly young Native Hawaiians have had difficulties in terms of unemployment, in terms of being able to integrate into the economy of the islands, that some of the historical legacies of what has happened in Hawaii continue to burden the Native Hawaiians for many years into the future.

 

This bill gives us an opportunity not to look backward but to help all Hawaiians move forward and to make sure that the Native Hawaiians in that great State are full members and not left behind as Hawaii continues to progress.

 

This is an important piece of legislation. I take a minute to commend the senior Senator from Hawaii, Mr. Inouye, and most of all Senator Akaka, particularly, for his tireless efforts to bring this to the floor. When people all across the country didn't know about this issue, Senator Akaka was the one who made sure we did. He has been a champion for the people of Hawaii. He is always working hard and thinking big to realize this ideal for the native population of his State. They are truly fortunate to have Senator Akaka as their Senator.

 

I urge my colleagues in the Senate to vote for the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005. I will be proud to add my vote to the roll call.

 

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a Democrat representing the state of Illinois.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Tuesday, June 20, 2006

 

Debate over recognition puts focus on Hawaiian aid programs

 

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer

 

The roof leaks in one of the three bedrooms of Symphonie Kaai's family home in Nanakuli, rendering that section of the house useless.

 

Kaai, a 29-year-old community health worker, is primary breadwinner in a family of seven that cannot afford badly needed repairs.

 

But last year, Kaai attended home improvement classes offered by the Nanakuli Housing Corp., which is dedicated to helping Native Hawaiians gain and maintain home ownership. The nonprofit also provided the family with a new water heater and, later, volunteers who went to the home to install window screens.

 

Nanakuli Housing is now looking into whether Kaai's family can qualify to purchase a fixer-upper that can be moved onto their homestead.

 

"If it wasn't for the Nanakuli Housing Corp., I wouldn't know how to take the first steps," said Kaai, a single mother of a 7-year-old.

 

Both supporters and opponents of Native Hawaiian programs could point to Nanakuli Housing to argue their cases.

 

H. William Burgess of the group Aloha For All, which has mounted legal challenges against Hawaiian funding, said such programs should be open to all, Hawaiian or not.

 

"As far as funding is concerned, I think it could continue from the federal government to the state — based on the needs of needy citizens, whatever their race," Burgess said.

 

Kapi'olani Barber, executive director of Nanakuli Housing, countered that the statistics are clear that Hawaiians still need the extra help. "It's very sad — the majority of people in prison are Native Hawaiians, the most impoverished, demographically, are Native Hawaiians. And as the host culture, it just shouldn't be that way."

 

The debate is inextricably linked to federal recognition and the proposed Native Hawaiian Recognition Act, which suffered a blow earlier this month when the U.S. Senate decided against hearing it. The bill proposes establishing a process that would lead to federal recognition of a Native Hawaiian government and, supporters believe, shield programs aimed at helping Hawaiians.

 

NEW LEGISLATION

 

Over the last 26 years, more than $1.2 billion in federal funds have been distributed to hundreds of Hawaiian programs, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, who is largely credited for steering the money to Hawai'i.

 

Inouye last week announced he will introduce legislation designed specifically to shield the Hawaiian programs without addressing the explosive issue of federal recognition. Opponents of the programs have vowed to continue the fight.

 

Larger Hawaiian initiatives range from the Native Hawaiian Education Council to Papa Ola Lokahi, which helps with a variety of health programs from clinics to classes.

 

Hardy Spoehr, executive director for Papa Ola Lokahi, said proposed legislation such as that being drafted by Inouye would go a long way to helping ensure funding for Hawaiian health programs.

 

"We're already funded for this coming year, but who knows what's going to happen a year from now?" Spoehr said.

 

Colin Kippen, executive director of the education council, estimates Native Hawaiian education programs receive about $34 million annually from the federal government to help students from the preschool to post-graduate levels.

 

"If the goal is to move the Hawaiian community forward and to assure proportionality and equity in terms of their representation in all fields ... education is really the way to make that happen," Kippen said.

 

In addition to federal funding, millions more come from state coffers. Aloha For All estimates that since 1990, the state has earmarked $1 billion for Hawaiian programs. Burgess leads an ongoing legal challenge of that funding in a case that the U.S. Supreme Court last week sent back to a lower court, suggesting it take a look at a separate case in which it determined that paying taxes alone is not enough to provide a group with the legal standing needed to challenge state funding.

 

In the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 decision in a case known as Rice v. Cayetano, however, the court ruled unconstitutional the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs' requirement that voters for its trustees must have Hawaiian blood.

 

Jade Danner, vice president of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, said she's nearly certain there will be more challenges to Hawaiian programs.

 

"The absence of a formal relationship with the United States makes defending those programs more difficult," Danner said.

 

Danner pointed out that the programs are successful, noting that the number of Hawaiian speakers rose from about 500 to about 9,000 in the 18 years since the inception of Punana Leo, the Hawaiian immersion school, and other Hawaiian language initiatives.

 

She maintains that many of the programs are not Hawaiians-only, and those that are could ultimately benefit all state residents. "If they're paying for some resources with Hawaiian money, that leaves other money to serve other needs more widely," Danner said.

 

ENTITLEMENT OR JUSTICE?

 

Richard Rowland, president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, said his group opposes special treatment of any group, including Hawaiians-only programs. Rowland said such efforts would perpetuate a counter-productive "dependent mentality" in any group singled out for funding.

 

The ongoing funding debate is an emotional one, pitting the plight of Native Hawaiians, whom many feel were wronged when the monarchy was overthrown in 1893, against America's constitutional ideal that everyone should get equal treatment.

 

'Ehu Cardwell of the pro-independence Koani Foundation, opposes the Native Hawaiian Recognition Act — dubbed the Akaka bill for its sponsor, U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka.

 

His group, which contends the bill does not go far enough in addressing wrongs that began with annexation, nevertheless believes Hawaiian programs funded by the federal and state governments are important.

 

"As an occupying power, that's the least the U.S. can do for Native Hawaiians," he said.

 

While Nanakuli Housing is a mid-sized Hawaiian program, 'Ahahui O Hawai'i is among the smaller programs.

 

The student organization at the University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law offers law school examination preparation and tutoring classes for potential lawyers of Native Hawaiian ancestry and receives funding from OHA.

 

Joni Domingues was recently among the students taking part in a law school exam preparation class offered by 'Ahahui O Hawai'i. The smaller classes helped her get a better grasp on what she needed to learn, she said.

 

Domingues said while she understands why some non-Hawaiians are challenging the constitutional issues ties to funding Hawaiian programs, she said the targeted funding is justified.

 

"This is Hawai'i, these are our ancestral lands," Domingues said. "I don't think it's unfair we get special treatment or entitlements."

 

Reach Gordon Y.K. Pang at gpang@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

Posted: June 16, 2006

 

Procedural vote stalls Akaka Bill in Senate

 

by: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today

 

WASHINGTON - Native Hawaiians will remain the only aboriginal inhabitants of the United States without federal recognition, following a procedural setback in the Senate to the Akaka Bill's chances of enactment in the current 109th Congress.

 

The bill could not proceed in the Senate without 60 votes in favor, and it fell short on June 8 by a tally of 56 - 41. The bill's backers had counted on surmounting procedural obstacles and sending the bill to a full debate and floor vote on the merits, which would have required a simple majority of 51 votes for passage. From a standpoint of realpolitik, that prospect is doubtful now.

 

The bill, informally known after its lead sponsor, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, seeks to authorize a process for extending federal recognition to a Native Hawaiian governing entity. The senator's staff attributed its downfall to political maneuvers that emanated from Republican leadership in the Senate and the White House of President George W. Bush.

 

''The administration went a long way, last minute, to make sure this bill didn't pass that procedural vote,'' said Donalyn Dela Cruz, Akaka's press secretary, adding, ''The central issue of Native Hawaiian recognition didn't get a hearing. They didn't vote on the substance of this bill.''

 

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has given the bill his strong backing. In a statement dated June 8, the day of the vote, Inouye termed the Bush administration ''grossly disingenuous'' for circulating a letter the evening of June 7 on the subject of Senate Bill 147, as the Akaka Bill was numbered on its introduction in the 109th Congress. ''We all knew - the White House knew, the Republican opposition knew - that the legislation had been reworked to address all concerns, and that the result was S. 3064.''

 

But Republican leadership denied Akaka's effort to substitute S. 3064 for S. 147 and consider it as ''original text,'' then used the administration's letter to urge a vote against S. 147, Inouye's statement maintains. Minus the negotiated agreements, reflected in S. 3064, that addressed the administration's stated concerns with S. 147, the bill didn't have the backing Akaka had counted on.

 

Among the favorable votes Akaka expected was that of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham co-sponsored the Akaka Bill but didn't cast a vote June 8. His staff issued a statement to the effect that Graham, despite a 98 percent voting record on other legislative items, simply didn't make it to the Senate floor in time to cast a vote on this particular item.

 

Dela Cruz noted that prior to the failed June 8 vote to invoke ''cloture'' and proceed with the Akaka Bill, the majority-Republican Senate had cast similar failed votes on two GOP priorities: the marriage amendment against gay weddings and repeal of the estate tax. Dela Cruz declined to provide detail as to why that mattered. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., sponsored the estate tax repeal measure. For much of 2003 and 2004, Kyl prevented the Akaka Bill from proceeding in the Senate. Noe Kalipi, of Akaka's staff, said Republican leadership in the Senate scheduled the Akaka Bill for a vote following those on the marriage amendment and on the estate tax for strategic reasons, in particular because Kyl might need their votes. Cloture requires a supermajority of 60 votes, meaning both parties have to attract votes from across the aisle to invoke cloture and move a stalled bill to the Senate floor.

 

The gamesmanship within the halls of Congress around the Akaka Bill may not be known in full granular detail for some time, but outside of Washington the forces ranged against it were anything but subtle. Once it became apparent that enough Republican senators would defy party pressure to give the bill a chance of getting to an up-or-down majority vote, editorial pages and online outlets began to teem with disinformation, misinformation and propaganda, only occasionally impeded by accuracy. The main thrust of many and various glaring errors was to confuse the indigenous people of Hawaii with ethnic populations, and the proposed Native Hawaiian governing entity with tribal governments.

 

Scarcely any more credible were direct assaults on Akaka's age and competence - outrages upon a legacy that includes passage of the monumental Apology Resolution of the United States Congress to Native Hawaiians for the federal role in overthrowing the Native monarchy of old Hawaii. Akaka is up for re-election this year. The November election is considered safe for any Democrat, but first the candidate must pass the test of a September Democratic primary.

 

''That's what's sad, is that people would make this about politics when the senator has been working on this [Akaka Bill] for years,'' Dela Cruz said. ''This is far beyond politics for the senator. This is about justice.''

 

She said the next step for Akaka is to look ahead and take strategic bearings for the bill, either yet this year or in the 110th Congress, beginning in 2007. Inouye, in the statement on his Web site, said next steps would not be made public immediately because of the scheming directed against the Akaka Bill. He saluted Akaka's ''tireless efforts'' to move it, as well as those Republicans who withstood ''intense pressure'' to vote for advancing the bill.

 

 

 

 

Hear the Arguments and the Questions Posed by the Ninth Circuit Court Judges

 

If you would like to download and listen to the oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on June 20, 2006, in the Doe v. Kamehameha Schools rehearing en banc, visit the Ninth Circuit’s website (http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/) and search the audio files for case file number “04-15044,” or download from CNHA’s website by clicking on the following link: http://www.hawaiiancouncil.org/docs/ppc/download/DOEvKS-04-15044EB.wma. The oral arguments lasted approximately 66 minutes.  The audio file is a 10 MB file which may take a while to download, depending upon your browser and the speed of your internet connection.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Sunday, June 18, 2006

 

15 judges to decide school's appeal

 

By Ken Kobayashi
Advertiser Courts Writer

 

Arguments before a group of federal appeals court judges in San Francisco on Tuesday could decide the fate of what supporters say is the heart of the only institution that truly belongs to Native Hawaiians.

 

At stake is the legality of the Kamehameha Schools policy of giving preferential admission to applicants with Hawaiian blood. The school maintains its practice is justified to address the social, economic and educational disadvantages facing Native Hawaiians.

 

A lawyer challenging the policy on behalf of an unnamed non-Native Hawaiian teenager, however, believes the practice violates federal civil rights laws.

 

The rejection of the admissions policy by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals last August sent shock waves that spurred an estimated 20,000 Kamehameha students and supporters to rally in support of the school's 119-year-old policy. The school successfully petitioned to have the case heard by a panel consisting of a greater number of judges.

 

The hearing isn't expected to result in an immediate decision. The appeals judges traditionally will take the case under advisement without indicating when they will render their decision. Legal observers say it could take months.

 

The 15-judge panel that will hear arguments Tuesday includes nine who were appointed by Democratic presidents and six by Republican presidents.

 

The court's chief judge, Mary Schroeder, automatically gets to sit on the panel. The other 14 are selected randomly from a pool of other active judges on the 28-seat appeals court. Richard Clifton, Hawai'i's only judge on the court, was not in the pool.

 

Nine, including Schroeder, were appointed to the lifetime terms by Presidents Carter and Clinton. The other six were appointed by Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

 

HARD TO PREDICT

 

Experts say it is problematic to predict a court decision based on the political affiliation of the president who selected the judges. But the appeals court's initial decision in the case — by a three-member panel — showed the judges appointed by Republican presidents ruled that the policy violated federal laws. The dissent was by a Clinton appointee.

 

Judge Jay Bybee, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and who wrote the panel's majority opinion rejecting the policy, will be among those hearing oral arguments, as is Judge Susan Graber, the Clinton appointee.

 

Eric Grant, a Sacramento lawyer who represents the unnamed teenager and his mother, said the court panel reflects the diversity of the judges, but he was struck by the fact that Bybee and Graber will be sitting.

 

He suggested the two will probably advocate their previous positions. "I start with one vote and Kamehameha starts with one," Grant said.

 

But he said he believes his clients will prevail.

 

Kathleen Sullivan, former Stanford Law School dean hired to represent the schools, was not available for comment. Schools' spokeswoman Ann Botticelli declined to comment on what the panel's make up might suggest about the outcome.

 

"We'll just go in with our very strong arguments," she said.

 

LIBERAL REPUTATION

 

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a reputation as a liberal court with about two-thirds of the active judges appointed by Democratic presidents.

 

Kamehameha Schools' position generally would draw support from liberals who view affirmative action as a way to enable minorities to overcome adversities. Conservatives, meanwhile, tend to see such programs as unnecessary or unfairly advancing one group at the expense of others.

 

Alexander Silvert, first assistant federal pubic defender in Honolulu, pointed out that judges don't necessarily rule the way one might expect.

 

"When a judge takes a bench, there historically has been an evolution where some of these judges who were expected to be very conservative, or expected to be very liberal, have actually — some people would say — matured, and don't vote along those ideological lines at all," Silvert said.

 

Tuesday's proceedings will be yet another milestone in the three-year-old roller coaster case that began with the filing of the lawsuit by a teenager — identified only as John Doe — seeking to enroll at the school. Both sides have indicated if they lose, they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the appellate court decision.

 

Kamehameha Schools, Hawai'i's largest private landowner and one of the wealthiest charitable trusts in the country with assets worth about $6 billion, was established in 1887 under the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop.

 

Botticelli said Bishop's vision was to provide education for Native Hawaiians so they could compete in society, but with Hawaiians still facing issues of poverty, drugs and crime, the school still needs to give preference to Native Hawaiian applicants.

 

There are only 5,400 seats on Kamehameha's three campuses, while there are 75,000 school-age children with Hawaiian blood.

 

"The (admissions) policy is critical to the mission," Botticelli said.

 

But to Grant the issue boils down to whether civil rights and anti-segregation laws apply to the institution.

 

Kamehameha Schools' legal position essentially is: "Hawai'i is different, Hawai'i is special, the regular rules don't apply," he said.

 

"If Hawaiians get a pass because of their history, I don't think it will be very long before some other group says, 'What about us? If you think it was bad for Hawaiians, let us tell you how bad it was for us,' " Grant said.

 

TWISTING PATH

 

In 2003, Senior U.S. District Judge Alan Kay agreed with Kamehameha Schools' legal arguments and upheld the school's policy in view of the unique circumstances of the school and Native Hawaiians. He threw out the suit.

 

But in August of last year, the majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the policy amounted to an "absolute bar" to non-Native Hawaiians in violation the federal civil rights law.

 

Senior appeals Judge Robert Beezer, who was appointed by Reagan, joined Bybee in the ruling.

 

In dissent, Graber said Congress did not intend that the civil rights law would bar programs to remedy "educational deficits" facing Native Hawaiians.

 

In February, the appeals court granted Kamehameha Schools' request for a rehearing before the larger panel and withdrew the earlier 2-1 decision.

 

Grant's client had been seeking a court order to force Kamehameha to enroll the boy who recently graduated from a public high school "with a very good record," the lawyer said.

 

Even though the initial panel voted 2-1 in his favor, the court did not issue the order because of Kamehameha Schools' request for the rehearing.

 

Grant said the case is not moot because still pending is the request for money damages from Kamehameha Schools, although the amount has yet to be calculated.

 

The thrust of his arguments before the court will be that Kamehameha Schools "operates a racially segregated school that violates the civil rights laws of the United States of America and there's no justification for applying any different rules for Kamehameha in particular or Hawai'i in general," he said.

 

He said even with the 9th U.S. Circuit's so-called "liberal" reputation, the panel will recognize that even if the judges sympathize with Kamehameha Schools' position, "the law requires them to rule in my favor."

 

Kamehameha Schools will argue that the challenge to the admissions policy should be rejected.

 

"We believe Judge Kay was correct in finding that our policy is legally justified as a means to remedy past wrongs and current injustices in the Hawaiian community resulting from Western contact," Botticelli said.

 

"We have a unique history as a private trust established to remedy special economic hardships that persist today."

 

Reach Ken Kobayashi at kkobayashi@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

June 20, 2006

 

CNHA Awarded Consulting Contract in Palau

 

Honolulu, HI – The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement’s (CNHA’s) Grants Training and Resource Institute, through a competitive bid process, was awarded a contract to conduct a Grant Writing Seminar in Koror, Palau.  With the promotional assistance of the Office of the President’s Grants Aid Assistance Office, CNHA delivered an intensive and interactive event to over 70 enthusiastic participants representing government divisions, local nonprofit organizations and various private sector firms.

 

Over the four-day period, participants covered how to locate funding sources, how to develop project concepts based on need analysis and mapping the resources and talents in their communities, and how to organize the important components in a successful grant application, as well as the basic principles of grants management.  Of the participants evaluated, 100% of them said they would recommend this grant writing seminar to other organizations/entities and one participant stated that “anyone interested in grant writing must take this seminar.”

 

“The project concepts of the participants ranged from establishing a youth community center to the development of a community recycling project to the development of a cancer survivor support center,” explained Annie Au Hoon, CNHA Project Coordinator. “The hopes and challenges in Palau are similar to those of other Pacific communities, focused on quality of life for their children and their aina.  It was a great experience to be working along side the people of Palau.”

 

The CNHA Grants Training and Resource Institute provided consulting and technical assistance in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.  Over the last 4 years, over 600 people have attended training sessions with more than $20 million in grant funds awarded to Pacific communities.  “We appreciate the opportunity to serve Palau,” said Lilia Kapuniai, CNHA Vice President.  “The Grants Training and Resource Institute is engaged in a variety of consulting services meant to support community based projects and programs in Hawaii and the Pacific.”

 

The Republic of Palau Government, established the Grants Aid Assistance Office within the Office of the President, through partial funding form the U.S. Office of Insular Affairs, to search for funding sources and assist in developing grant proposals to meet funding goals and objectives of their community.

 

CNHA is a statewide and national association of Native Hawaiian organizations. Operating an active Policy Center, Grants Training and Resource Institute, Community Development Consulting Services and the Hawaiian Way Fund, we unify our members around solutions that embrace the strength of Native culture and knowledge in meeting community challenges. CNHA coordinates the Annual Native Hawaiian Convention in Honolulu every year to bring practitioners, community and policy makers together around issues important to Hawaiians.

 

 

 

 

June 15, 2006

 

Akaka Calls for Cultural Sensitivity for NWHI Monument Designation

 

Washington, D.C. - Today Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) joined President George W. Bush at the White House to hear the Administration's proclamation establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve as a National Marine Monument. 

 

Senator Akaka, Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on National Parks, has requested a hearing to ensure that the unique cultural and natural resources are preserved.

 

Following the President's announcement, Senator Akaka made the following

statement: 

 

"Although this is a departure from the National Marine Sanctuary process, I commend President Bush for recognizing the ecological value and unique native species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 

 

"For years, Senator Inouye and I have worked with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and community groups to ensure proper stewardship of this tremendous island chain.  It is my hope that the Administration will continue these relationships to properly incorporate the cultural traditions that are of great importance to Native Hawaiians and careful traditions of fishermen.

 

"This is a great day for the preservation of our ocean and coral reef ecosystems.  But I firmly believe all stakeholders must have input in the future of this precious resource.  I will be vigilant in making sure that effective oversight over this National Monument is provided."

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Friday, June 16, 2006

 

Fishing in sanctuary divides Hawaiians

 

By Jan TenBruggencate
Advertiser Science Writer

 

President Bush's establishment yesterday of a Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument — a conservation zone bigger than most states — did not end squabbling over the most intractable management issue for the region: fishing. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press: Charles Dharapak

 

Bush, in a White House ceremony attended by state officials, representatives of conservation groups and government agencies, appeared clear in his commitment to establishing a preserve that creates strong protections for marine life and other resources in the islands. It would be a pure refuge where corals, fishes, lobsters, seaweeds and other forms of marine life could thrive.

 

The refuge will span 140,000 square miles over the atolls, reefs and land masses of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The designation makes it the largest protected area in the United States and the world's largest marine preserve.

 

But there are provisions allowing fishing of various kinds: commercial fishing for up to 350,000 pounds annually of bottomfish for a maximum of five more years; commercial fishing for up to 180,000 pounds annually of open ocean fish for up to five years; fishing by Native Hawaiians conducting cultural practices with permits; and sustenance fishing by others who are in the region with the permission of the monument's managers. Photo courtesy of the Honolulu Advertiser: Library Photo

 

Bush limited subsistence fishing by Native Hawaiians and others specifically to marine life that would be consumed while in the monument. None could be brought home.

 

Native Hawaiians generally applauded the establishment of the preserve, but suggested they have significant differences in their beliefs of how sustenance fishing should be managed. Some feel the proclamation language is too restrictive.

 

"The access rights we're talking about is to feed our family," activist Walter Ritte of Moloka'i said. "On the one hand, it's like a natural hatchery up there so we get more food down here, but they should have the option for Hawaiians to collect from the sea. They need to recognize our rights."

 

LIMITS ON FISHING

 

The proclamation establishing the national monument included this language involving Native Hawaiian uses:

 

"Native Hawaiian Practices means cultural activities conducted for the purposes of perpetuating traditional knowledge, caring for and protecting the environment, and strengthening cultural and spiritual connections to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that have demonstrable benefits to the Native Hawaiian community. This may include, but is not limited to, the non-commercial use of monument resources for direct personal consumption while in the monument."

 

There is a tradition of Hawaiians sharing what they had in abundance. On Moloka'i, people of the taro-rich areas of the north shore would come to the fish-rich areas of West Moloka'i for marine life, Ritte said. The natural wealth of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, while it should be protected, also should be available as a subsistence resource to the state's native people, he said.

 

Maui cultural expert and kahu Charles Maxwell had similar thoughts.

 

"It should be limited to Hawaiian fishing for home consumption, including turtles and everything that was caught before. No commercialism, but food to eat there, and to bring back. The way it used to be — enough to eat right then, and the next day, and to dry, but not for the whole month," Maxwell said.

 

But other Hawaiians said they support the concept of the refuge, and agree with the monument's proposed limits, or at least the idea of limits.

 

State Sen. Clayton Hee, D-23rd (Kahuku, Kane'ohe) said the monument plays the same role today that the Hawaiian fishing restriction concept of kapu.

 

"The idea that Bush is an agent for this recognition of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a natural resource is terrific," Hee said.

 

"We need to recognize that gathering rights are a part of the state's legal system. But the kapu system was a management tool for sustaining our resources. The monument is a haolefied version of a kapu system."

 

STRICT CONSERVATION

 

Kaleikoa Ka'eo, an instructor of Hawaiian studies at Maui Community College, said he backs strict conservation.

 

"I support the protection of the resources. I believe in subsistence. I lean toward, what you catch up there should be eaten up there. We need to err on the side of caution. If you open up that door of filling coolers to bring home, it encourages taking more than you need," he said.

 

Cha Smith, the non-Hawaiian executive director of Kahea, a Hawaiian-environmental alliance, said Native Hawaiian rights to access in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are adequately protected under the president's monument plan.

 

"Native Hawaiians can subsistence-fish for consumption while up there," Smith said. "I think that isn't going to have a significant impact. Hawaiians don't play with their food; they don't recreationally fish."

 

'ON THE SAME PAGE'

 

The Bush proclamation calls on the U.S. secretaries of Commerce and Interior to work together with the state to manage the national monument, and with respect to fishing, to issue specific permits for sustenance fishing, which it describes as "fishing for bottomfish or pelagic species that are consumed within the monument, and is incidental to an activity permitted under this proclamation."

 

Such fishing would be permitted in limited areas within the monument where the managers feel it is compatible with the purposes of the monument. To keep track of how much of an impact such taking involves, the managers of the monument will be required to establish rules for the reporting of anything caught.

 

The designation of a national monument continues a conservation effort that started in 1909 with President Theodore Roosevelt. On learning of the damage to nesting seabird colonies by hunters, Roosevelt established a U.S. reserve that evolved into part of the national wildlife refuge system, operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

 

"His executive order was the first of many presidential efforts to protect the life and waters of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands," Bush said yesterday.

 

Bush's own move is welcome, said Barry Stieglitz, project leader of the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

 

"What President Roosevelt started almost 100 years ago, President Bush greatly expanded today," Stieglitz said.

 

He said the joint management by the federal departments of Commerce and Interior and the state should not be a difficult matter, in part because the agencies have already been working together.

 

"We're all pretty much on the same page," he said.

 

Federal officials had planned a series of public meetings this summer on plans to manage the then-proposed national marine sanctuary for the region. While the sanctuary plan has been supplanted by the national monument, Bush said the public still will have an opportunity to address how the refuge is run.

 

"The Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce will work with the state of Hawai'i and the public to develop a plan to manage the monument," he said.

 

Details of that plan are still under development, but in rushed hours around Bush's announcement, someone did some math: His proclamation calculates the reserve size at 139,793 square miles.

 

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

 

Federal and state politicians, fishing industry representatives, environmentalists and residents commented yesterday on the new designation for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Here are some of their statements:

 

"I applaud President Bush for his recognition of the incalculable value of the ocean and coral reef ecosystems in our Hawaiian archipelago."

 

U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i

 

"For years, Senator Inouye and I have worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and community groups to ensure proper stewardship of this tremendous island chain. It is my hope that the administration will continue these relationships to properly incorporate the cultural traditions that are of great importance to Native Hawaiians and careful traditions of fishermen."

 

U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawai'i

 

"It's important that we not sit back and think this is the end of the story. There's still a lot of work to be done before the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have protection fully in place. I remain committed to building on today's progress until we achieve that goal."

 

U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawai’i

 

"... a spectacular action, which justly earns the distinction of the most significant single action in marine resource protection in our country's history. ... It is time to give thanks that something so right to do was done right."

 

U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawai'i

 

"This seamless partnership between the state and federal government, environmental conservationists, and Native Hawaiian organizations will preserve this special chain of atolls and reefs as a natural and cultural legacy. Together, we are proud to continue our commitment to preserve Hawai'i's natural resources for future generations."

 

Gov. Linda Lingle

 

"Greenpeace welcomes the designation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a national monument. These added protections for the NWHI are an important step, but we have a long way to go to avert the crisis facing our oceans. The best science available shows that we may need to set aside as much as 40 percent of marine ecosystems as reserves, protected from fishing."

 

John Passacantando, executive director, Greenpeace USA

 

"I wonder why anyone thinks it's a good idea to transfer a large part of Hawai'i to the federal government."

 

Jim Cook, fishing boat owner; former member and chairman, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

 

"Why should we care about protecting a long chain of islands and atolls that reach 1,200 miles from Honolulu into the vast northern Pacific Ocean? This near pristine environment, teaming with indigenous and endangered species and extraordinary habitats, is under siege from marine debris, ravenous commercial fishing interests and the effects of human irresponsibility. It is a fragile ecosystem that is as beautiful as a porcelain figurine and as easily broken."

 

Jean-Michel Cousteau, Ocean Futures Society

 

"We're disappointed that we can't continue our small, healthy bottomfish fishery."

 

Kitty Simonds, executive director, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

 

"I think it's a wonderful thing."

 

Paul Petrich, of Santa Barbara, Calif., a volunteer with California's Channel Islands National Park and National Marine Sanctuary

 

"Despite all the efforts, the Hawaiian monk seal is in trouble. Maybe this will help them. ... Will Midway be open for visitors? I'm hoping people will be able to see what's being saved."

 

Tom Huff , Manoa resident

 

"I attended the ceremony. The tone of the announcement was really extraordinary, and it was all about protection. Now, we need to see it in writing."

 

Stephanie Fried, senior scientist, Environmental Defense

 

Reach Jan TenBruggencate at jant@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

June 18, 2006

 

Hawaiians also need protection

 

By Lee Cataluna
Advertiser Columnist

 

Eh, maybe Jean-Michel can make one movie about us guys, too.

 

Worked good for the monk seals. Maybe Bush can be convinced to save some Hawaiians while he's in a magnanimous mood.

 

Save the endangered Native Hawaiians and their habitat, the Southeastern Hawaiian Islands.

 

If the monk seals, sea birds and some big tunas can score federal protection under the Bush administration, can't the president and his party spare some compassion for a culture that has lost more than natural habitat and population numbers, and that scores at the top of nearly every negative social statistic?

 

Bush's effusive comments on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, coming on the heels of Republican senators' remarks about the rights Native Hawaiians don't have the right to ask for, provided shocking contrast:

 

"We will preserve access for Native Hawaiian cultural activities," Bush said. "For more than a thousand years, Native Hawaiians sailed these waters and visited these islands as part of sacred journeys. The islands are dotted with archaeological treasures and traditional sites of worship. This monument will protect the cultural ties that Native Hawaiians have to these lands and waters. We respect these natives' beliefs, and this monument will safeguard both the natural and spiritual treasures of the region. And for this reason, we will consult with Native Hawaiian leaders to give this monument a Native Hawaiian name."

 

So wait, when it comes to seals, they care what Hawaiians think, but when it comes to Keali'i Pauahi's money, ceded lands and self-determination, they don't want to hear it? They'll let Hawaiians name the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, kind of like a fourth-grade poster contest.

 

What's the Hawaiian word for "hypocrisy"?

 

Bush's comments indicated that the documentary Cousteau showed him — and a photo of his dad with the late Jacques Cousteau — made quite an impact.

 

"I want to thank Jean-Michel Cousteau for joining us. He just showed me a picture of another president — well, two fathers kind of gathered together. And it's proud for two sons to be carrying on the legacy of conservation. He's made a really important movie that I hope people will watch about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. I think the American people will understand better about why I made the decision I made when they see the movie that Jean-Michel has produced.

 

"... Jean-Michel put it this way, he said, 'How can we protect what we don't understand?'

 

"Eh, no kidding. And wasn't that at the heart of the ignorant statements being made about the Akaka bill?

 

Maybe Jean-Michel can kokua Hawaiians, too, because what's the good of saving animals when the rights, inheritance and legacy of an indigenous people are being willfully dismantled? The sum total doesn't equal a better world.

 

Lee Cataluna's column runs Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Reach her at 535-8172 or lcataluna@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

June 19, 2006

 

Bush’s Gift to Case

 

By Nicole Duran,

Roll Call Staff

 

Did President Bush deliver a devastating political blow to Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) last week when he designated a chain of Hawaiian islands as a national monument?

 

It capped what already has been a difficult year for the 81-year-old junior Senator.

 

First Akaka learned that Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii) would try to take his job away in the September primary. Then Time magazine named him one of the five worst Senators in April. Earlier this month his signature piece of legislation died in the Senate.

 

Then last week Bush handed Case a major achievement by moving to protect the islands.

 

Whether all these developments take their political toll is hard to say. Akaka hasn’t had to run a difficult race since winning a special election in 1990.

 

“We haven’t made any bones about it, this is a competitive race,” said Elisa Yadao, an Akaka campaign spokeswoman. “And everybody knows that.”

 

Nevertheless, unseating him likely will not be easy for Case, as Akaka has the state party establishment, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and myriad interest groups on his side.

 

Neither man is known as a particularly prolific fundraiser, but Case says his job has gotten tougher as national Democrats have spread the word to like-minded groups not to contribute to his upstart campaign.

 

“There is no question that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee put the word out to the inside the Beltway community” that support for Akaka was expected, Case said. “And I believe the DSCC engaged in an effort to chill my fundraising but I don’t know the extent to which they have done that or the extent to which they will continue to do that.”

 

While he was still a candidate for re-election, Case received more than $70,000 from political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But since his January Senate announcement, he has received only $8,000 from PACs, his campaign said.

 

Akaka’s overall fundraising is also better than Case’s. Akaka began April with about $870,000 in the bank, while Case had just under $300,000. Furthermore, the DSCC has spent almost $50,000 on behalf of Akaka’s campaign.

 

The DSCC did not return calls for this story.

 

Yadao said Akaka’s team is not focusing on denying Case any contributions.

 

“Our campaign is actively working on behalf of Sen. Akaka based on his record, based on his accomplishment, based on the things he has done and continues to do for the state,” she said. “We’re not actively running around telling people anything beyond that.”

 

Democratic primaries, especially challenges to an incumbent, are undoubtedly tricky for labor, environmental and other Democratic-leaning groups.

 

The National Education Association previously has supported Case, who first came to Congress in 2002 after winning the election to fill the final days of the term of Rep. Patsy Mink (D-Hawaii), who died in office.

 

The NEA gave Case $1,000 in 2005, when it thought he was seeking a third full term in the House.

 

On May 4 the NEA decided to back Akaka with an endorsement and a maximum $5,000 contribution, said Sheri Lanoff, who manages the NEA’s PAC.

 

“We felt we owed the Senator our loyalty,” Lanoff said.

 

Case, like Akaka, received an “A” on the group’s Congressional scorecard and would be “worthy of support” if he ran for his 2nd district House seat again, Lanoff said.

 

The Human Rights Campaign was another group that financially was supporting Case until he set his sights on Akaka.

 

The group gave $1,000 to his House campaign but it endorsed Akaka for re-election last year, said David Smith, the Human Rights Campaign’s vice president.

 

Akaka received only a 75 percent on the group’s most recent scorecard, compared to Case’s 100 percent rating, but Smith said Akaka has since improved his performance and traditionally has strongly supported the group’s agenda.

 

The Human Rights Campaign is staying with Akaka, largely because of the bias toward incumbents, Smith conceded.

 

Still, Case is upbeat that donors are coming around and that some groups may ultimately contribute to both men.

 

“I think we are starting to see some hedging of bets,” Case said. “And I would expect that to continue. Many of those contributors have been good loyalists but they are watching the race.”

 

Case got an unexpected boost from Bush on Thursday when the president announced that he would designate a marine preserve stretching 1,400 miles around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Case has worked for such a designation since he coming to Congress.

 

Akaka, while supportive of the measure, never introduced legislation to encourage such a designation. He has, however, fought to preserve the area’s delicate and unique ecosystem, according to his office.

 

“For years, Senator Inouye and I have worked with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and community groups to ensure proper stewardship of this tremendous island chain,” he said in a statement. “It is my hope that the administration will continue these relationships to properly incorporate the cultural traditions that are of great importance to Native Hawaiians and careful traditions of fishermen.”

 

There will be no commercial fishing allowed in the area after five years, but Native Hawaiians will still be allowed to fish for personal consumption.

 

Some observers say that Akaka’s inability to get his bill granting Native Hawaiians sovereignty passed combined with Case’s success may still have no effect on the race.

 

“I don’t think it will change the minds of people who have supported the Senator all these years,” said Kitty Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, which currently oversees the area and manages fishing.

 

The group is expected to protest the phase-out of commercial fishing in the area.

 

Rick Castberg, a political science professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, said he does not think the recent events will impact the race.

 

Still, Case carries some advantages. Hawaii also has an open primary system which could benefit Case, who is seen as more moderate than the liberal Akaka, Castberg said. Come Sept. 23, Republican voters could choose a Democratic primary ballot and vote for Case — especially since there is no GOP Senate candidate on the horizon.

 

But Castberg believes age could be a more important factor. He says Case has to be careful not to blatantly draw attention to their age difference but that in practical terms, it could be significant.

 

Akaka has been moving to dispel any notion the voters might have that he is too old for the job. He is running an aggressive campaign — bolstered by no less than four general consultants — and has been increasing his appearances throughout the islands.

 

But Case, at 53, can better withstand the long plane ride between Washington, D.C., and Hawaii than Akaka, Castberg said, and Case likely will be able to island hop and visit voters across the archipelago more easily, too.

 

“If Akaka is tired and looks tired, it’s not going to help,” he said.

 

 

 

 

June 19, 2006

 

Home Ownership Available Statewide

 

Honolulu, HI - Community nonprofits working together in an unprecedented financial literacy campaign has provided homeownership assistance to thousands of families statewide.  In 2005, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) launched its Home Ownership Assistance Program known as HOAP, creating easy access to a full menu of services related to loan qualification, credit counseling and financial management. 

 

Managed and administered by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA), a community development nonprofit, HOAP features a statewide call center and the coordination of multiple nonprofits providing homebuyer education in Hawaii.

 

“HOAP creates a one-stop shop for families to locate homeownership services.  Over 4,600 contacts were made to the HOAP Call Center and over 16,000 visits were made to the website since the inception of the program,” said Rosalee Puaoi, CNHA Project Coordinator.

In one of the most aggressive residential building schedules in recent decades, DHHL rolled out an important component of meeting its goals of delivering affordable housing to Native Hawaiians on a wait list of thousands.  HOAP ensures access by eligible beneficiaries of the federal Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to homebuyer counseling to help them meet home loan qualifications.  DHHL anticipates more than 1,000 residential lots in 2006.

 

Since inception, CNHA, in partnership with local nonprofits, provided orientation sessions to 1,476 individuals, with 1,307 attending homeownership education courses and 877 families completing financial assessments.  More than 1,360 clients enrolled in one-on-one case management services to address credit and other loan qualification criteria.

 

Michelle Kauhane, Executive Director of the nonprofit Hawaiian Community Assets commented, “We’ve been delivering homebuyer education and counseling services for six years.  There is no question that HOAP has increased the number of families receiving financial literacy in one form or another from our agency.  HOAP not only reaches the intended market and makes it easy for families to locate the services they need, but it also has increased our capacity to serve that market.  It’s one of the best things DHHL could have done and a welcomed approach.”

 

“The recognition by DHHL that homebuyer education is as important as building homes is a testament to the leadership of the Hawaiian Homes Commission.  Thousands are on the path to making homeownership a reality, and that’s a great thing to see,” CNHA’s Puaoi remarked.

For more information about HOAP, please contact the Call Center toll free at 1-866-897-4384, or visit the website at www.dhhlhoap.org.

 

CNHA is a statewide and national association of Native Hawaiian organizations. Operating an active Policy Center, Grants Training Institute, Community Development Consulting Services and the Hawaiian Way Fund, we unify our members around solutions that embrace the strength of Native culture and knowledge in meeting community challenges. CNHA coordinates the Annual Native Hawaiian Convention in Honolulu every year to bring practitioners, community and policy makers together around issues important to Hawaiians.

 

 

 

 

Published on June 19, 2006

 

House to assess impact of set-asides on Alaskan firms

 

BY David Hubler
www.fcw.com

 

Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Small Business Committee, and Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, have scheduled a joint hearing for June 21 to examine whether Alaskan Native Corporations (ANCs) have an advantage over 8(a) small businesses in contracting with the federal government.

 

Since 1986, ANCs have been permitted to participate in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program, established to help disadvantaged socioeconomic groups establish and grow small businesses through federal government contracting.

 

The committees will examine whether the additional procurement advantages ANCs receive that are not given to other certified 8(a) small businesses actually benefit Alaska Native people, how such advantages affect the rest of the federal government’s competitive acquisition system and whether SBA is properly managing the ANC program.

 

The people scheduled to testify include Rep. Don Young (R-Ark.), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Calvin Jenkins, deputy associate deputy administrator of SBA’s Office of Government Contracting and Business Development; Harry Alford, president and chief executive officer of the National Black Chamber of Commerce; Chris McNeil Jr., chairman of the Native American Contractors Association and president and CEO of Sealaska; and Julie Kitka, president of Alaska Federation of Natives.

 

The hearing will take place at 1 p.m. in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

 

 

 

 

June 20, 2006

 

The SBA Native 8(a) Program Brings Hope to American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

 

By Chris E. McNeil Jr., Chairman Native American Contractors Association

 

Karl McLaughlin, like the rest of his family in the Native Village of Afognak, grew up as a subsistence and commercial fisherman. His family faced devastation when the fresh fish markets plummeted after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and Karl knew that he needed to find a more financially stable line of work. In 1993, Karl had the opportunity to intern at the Afognak Native Corporation in his village. Karl worked, trained, and climbed the ranks to the position of Senior Vice President of Information Technology, overseeing 4,300 employees. Today Karl is able to provide a better life for his family, and this would not have been possible without the Small Business Administration’s Native 8(a) contracting program.

 

Unfortunately, Karl’s story is the exception. Tribal members are among the poorest and most under-employed communities in America.  Congress has long sought programs that spur economic development in Native communities. Decades of failed economic development policies and programs, however, demonstrate that alleviating the entrenched poverty in many Native communities is not an easy task. When talking about the persistently depressed economic conditions in her community, an elder in one Alaska Native village said that her generation “had even forgotten the word in their Native language for hope.” But the 8(a) contracting program is a rare example of a federal policy that works and is bringing hope back to our communities.

 

It took nearly 20 years for Native American contractors to show progress in participating in the federal marketplace, but, today, American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives across the nation are beginning to realize the positive impacts of the 8(a) program.  Recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs highlighted the 8(a) Program as one of the most successful laws Congress has enacted to foster self-sufficiency and economic development in Native communities. Contracting revenues are essential to support vibrant, healthy Native communities in some of the poorest regions where unemployment and poverty rates are staggering.  The 8(a) program has been particularly helpful to those tribes that are located far away from major markets or industrial centers because it provides access to federal markets nationwide.  The government-to-government commerce stimulated by the 8(a) program is helping to build self-sustaining economies and self-reliance in our Native communities. 

 

Unlike other American small businesses, where revenues are retained as profits by the owners, the revenues from Native enterprises benefit hundreds – and often thousands – of tribal members. The revenue earned by Native enterprises provide basic governmental services, job training programs, scholarships, healthcare clinics, social service programs and cultural programs for their entire communities. The Native American contracting provisions recognize the unique status of Indian tribes and the unique obligations of tribal governments to provide for the health, welfare, and safety of their citizens.

 

Tomorrow the House Small Business and Government Reform Committees will hold a hearing to review a recent Government Accountability Office Report on the participation on Alaska Native Corporations in the 8(a) program. The GAO report shows the success of the federal policy of advancing federal procurement goals while simultaneously promoting Native American government-to-government participation in the federal marketplace. The report also confirms what Karl McLaughlin and others in our communities already know: the 8(a) program is helping tribal communities diversify their economies and provide opportunities to a group of Americans historically far less able to access the American dream. 

 

The Native American Contractors Association was founded to enhance self-determination through preservation of government contracting participation based on the government-to-government relationship between Native Americans and the federal government. Our members include community-based enterprises owned by American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.

 

 

 

 

June 21, 2006

 

Neighbor Islands Get Organized For Voter Registration

 

HONOLULU, HI - The 2006 Native Votes Count Campaign, coordinated by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA), is reaching communities far and wide throughout the State of Hawaii.  CNHA’s Policy Center is in contact with community organizations on all islands disseminating voter education materials and helping to register eligible voters for the 2006 election season.

 

Over 15 Deputy Voter Registrars on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Molokai and Kauai are in place to assist communities to register and obtain important information on the 2006 elections.  CNHA’s coordinated campaign provides voter education materials, banners, bumper stickers, registrars and a healthy dose of encouragement to Hawaiian communities to engage in democracy and the important responsibility of voting. 

 

"It's terrific to be working with neighbor island communities, we want to support them as much as possible," said Robin Danner, CNHA President & CEO.  "The enthusiasm out there is very high, and it’s important for that energy to result in higher numbers of registered voters across the state, and absolutely for those voters to cast ballots in the primary and general elections."

 

Island of Kauai resident Ka`e`e Calica, a board member of the Anahola Hawaiian Homes Association and kumu at the Kapa`a High School Hawaiian Language Immersion program, is gathering other island residents to attend Registrar classes to become certified.  Calica said, “We want to register and ensure that people will vote for representatives that value Hawaii.  Kū  kānaka a kū helu `ia.  Stand up kānaka and be counted!”

 

For more information on CNHA’s 2006 Native Votes Count Campaign or to order materials, request the services of a Deputy Voter Registrar or learn about upcoming Deputy Voter Registrar classes, please contact CNHA’s Policy Center via e-mail at nativevotes@hawaiiancouncil.org or contact Rosalee Puaoi or Lisa C. Oshiro at 808.521.5011 or toll-free at 800.709.2642.  You may also visit the Policy Center through our website at www.hawaiiancouncil.org.

 

 

 

 

June 17, 2006

 

New speakers of ancient tongues

 

Indian tribes find teaching is last hope for saving native languages

 

By Lourdes Medrano

ARIZONA DAILY STAR

 

As time treks through Indian country, the words of ancient songs and sacred rituals crumble under the weight of the dominant language.

 

"I hear more and more English on the reservation," said Danny Lopez, who teaches Tohono O'odham at the Sells community college. "A lot of children don't know our language anymore."

 

But a language revival of sorts has gripped many American Indian tribes working to keep their mother tongues vibrant.

 

Just southwest of Tucson, in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation, children and their parents learn the language of their ancestors in special classes. In Nebraska, Ho-Chunk youths absorb an elder's words preserved in 1,500 audiotapes about life on the reservation. In Montana, mothers immerse their newborns and toddlers in a new language program.

 

They are some of the initiatives being discussed this month at the University of Arizona, where 20 tribal members hope to learn how to preserve declining indigenous languages. "Gathering Talk: Documenting, Describing and Revitalizing Our Languages" is the theme of the American Indian Language Development Institute this summer.

 

The residential program has offered training since 1979 to teachers of indigenous languages. But institute director Ofelia Zepeda said it is the first time tribal members have received a fellowship from the National Science Foundation to focus on language preservation.

 

The fellows represent languages from a number of American Indian tribes, including Oneida, Ho-Chunk, Blackfeet, Coushatta, Sahaptin, Southern Ute, Cheyenne, Laguna-Keres, Okanagan, Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham.

 

The decline of indigenous languages has been well documented, but "of late we're having more tribes acknowledge it," Zepeda said.

 

She and other linguists say the reasons for language loss are complex. But they note that American Indian languages historically were suppressed in government attempts to assimilate tribes into mainstream society.

 

In 1995, the Alaska Native Language Center found that of 175 indigenous languages still spoken in the United States, 155 were moribund because children no longer learned them.

 

"It's a huge loss," noted Zepeda, who is Tohono O'odham. "Young people are not learning their language, but that's because the adults are not using it."

 

Growing up, that was certainly the case for Don Preston, an artist who grew up away from the Tohono O'odham Reservation. He returned as an adult and since March has attended a weekly language class in the evening at the San Xavier District Education Center.

 

"My parents never taught me, and I always wanted to learn to speak my own language," said Preston, 52. "It's like going back to my own roots."

 

Jodi Burshia, one of the fellows at the university, said she also wants to learn the language of her ancestors. Her ancestry includes Pueblo, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa and French Canadian, but she speaks none of the languages.

 

"I want to know about all of them," said Burshia, who grew up with the Laguna Pueblo people in New Mexico and now lives in Tucson. Burshia, like the other fellows, is learning how to write effective grant proposals to secure outside funding for language documentation when tribal money falls short. She said she hopes to help collect and preserve letters, tapes and other documents in her Laguna community.

 

Marvin Weatherwax, a member of the Blackfeet tribe in northwestern Montana, said the death of elders in the past two years has meant a drop in the number of fluent native speakers to 350 from 500. Eighteen new speakers were gained in the past five years, said Weatherwax, who teaches language at his reservation's community college.

 

Last summer, the UA fellow said, he determined by knocking on doors that 1,500 tribal members understand Blackfeet but rarely speak it. He calls them "sleepers," and his goal is to reawaken their knowledge about the language so they can share it with youngsters.

 

"We can't lose our language," said Weatherwax, 59. "Without it, you lose pretty much your identity, you lose pretty much everything."

 

In the Ho-Chunk Nation of Nebraska, Caroline Frenchman, another fellow, said tribal members teach the language to students from preschool to college two to three times a week.

 

"But that is not enough," she said.

 

Five fluent speakers remain among the roughly 2,600 enrolled members in the state, she said. To stir interest in the language, tribal members are digitizing the 1,500 audiotapes that a late elder, Stanford Whitewater, left behind. Frenchman said Whitewater's recordings contain a wealth of language lessons and tribal history.

 

Frenchman, 42, said she studied her native language under Whitewater for five years before he died at age 90 recently. The language apprentice said she never learned Ho-Chunk from her grandparents, who raised her.

 

Now, she herself is learning the language as she tries to save it from extinction. "There's an old legend that says if the language ever dies, the world will cease to exist," she said. "I don't want it to die."

 

Marie Sanchez, a Northern Cheyenne who teaches the tribal language to elementary school students, characterized as severe the language loss among youngsters in her northeastern Montana reservation. "Our youngest fluent speaker is 30," said Sanchez, 67.

 

To counter the downward trend, tribal members plan to expand an immersion program for mothers and infants, Sanchez said. "We want to get them back into learning the language and traditions before childbirth," she said of expectant mothers.

 

Seeing so many youths no longer speak Cheyenne saddens Sanchez, but at the same time, "it makes me want to try harder."

 

Delphine Saraficio, who teaches O'odham to children and adults in San Xavier, said she sometimes feels discouraged to see her native language disintegrating.

 

But then she hears new students such as Preston painstakingly emit the soft, lilting sounds of O'odham in class. It is the affirmation she needs to keep working to save her mother tongue.

 

"We can't lose our language. Without it, you lose pretty much your identity, you lose pretty much everything."

Marvin Weatherwax

 

Member of Blackfeet Tribe

 

● Contact reporter Lourdes Medrano at 573-4347 or lmedrano@azstarnet.com.

 

 

 

 

June 14, 2006

 

Norwegian Cruise Line and Its Pride of Hawaii Sails For Local Charities

 

Honolulu, HI – Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) hosted four local charities, including the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) on its annual Charity Cruise that sailed on the Pride of Hawaii on June 4, 2006.  NCL presented proceeds raised from the cruise in the amount of $250,000 to share among CNHA, `Aha Punana Leo, Child and Family Services and the Hawaii Maritime Academy. With the introduction of each NCL ship into Hawaiian waters, NCL sponsors a charity cruise and donates all funds raised from the cruise fares to local charities.    

 

On Board the NCL’s “Gala Charity Cruise to No Where” following the check presentation by NCL Executive Vice President, Robert Kritzman, passengers were treated to one of the hottest new acts featuring the Barefoot Natives with  Willie K. and Eric Gilliom in the ship’s Stardust Theatre.

 

“One of the clear highlights of the cruise was the fantastic entertainment by Willie K. and Eric Gilliom, an exciting, energetic comedic duo,” raved Lilia Kapuniai, CNHA Vice President.  “This is the third year in a row that NCL America has coordinated the charity cruise, it gets better and better.  We mahalo Willie K. and Eric Gilliom for their generosity and participation in supporting the charity cruise.”

 

CNHA dedicates funds received from the NCL Charity Cruise to its Hawaiian Way Fund, founded in 2003 to support community based nonprofits around the state that are vital to perpetuating Hawaiian culture, knowledge and language.  Annually, Hawaiian Way Fund, supports 20 small, but powerful community organizations that strengthen all of Hawaii through their work in education, human services, affordable housing, and other community solutions.

 

“The amount of work and dedication by NCL America to coordinate the annual charity cruise is incredible.  We thank NCL and Robert Kritzman for continuing to support things Hawaiian, it’s a great recognition and tribute to the local Hawaii nonprofit community,” said Napali Woode, CNHA Senior Vice President.

 

CNHA is a statewide and national association of Native Hawaiian organizations. Operating an active Policy Center, Grants Training and Resource Institute, Community Development Consulting Services and the Hawaiian Way Fund, we unify our members around solutions that embrace the strength of Native culture and knowledge in meeting community challenges. CNHA coordinates the Annual Native Hawaiian Convention in Honolulu every year to bring practitioners, community and policy makers together around issues important to Hawaiians.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Friday, June 16, 2006

 

UH raises rates for Pacific Islanders

 

By Loren Moreno
Advertiser Staff Writer

 

Students from the Pacific islands will pay twice as much to attend the University of Hawai'i under a tuition increase approved yesterday by the UH Board of Regents.

 

That means a Pacific island undergraduate student attending UH-Manoa full time will pay $7,704 a year compared with $5,136 for residents and $14,400 for nonresidents starting with the fall 2007 term. Pacific island students currently pay the same tuition as residents — $3,504 a year.

 

The jump for Pacific Islanders is in line with an overall tuition increase approved a year ago for the state's higher education system — its largest such increase ever. Those increases are being phased in starting this fall and are expected to more than double the cost of a year of undergraduate tuition at UH-Manoa by 2011.

 

Because the Pacific island rate will be pegged to 150 percent of resident tuition, their tuition will also rise through 2011, to an estimated $12,600 annually.

 

However, regents also approved the new UH Financial Assistance Program, which includes the Pacific Islander Scholarship, to help students offset the cost of the increases.

 

About two dozen faculty members and Pacific island students testified for more than two hours before the regents. Nearly all spoke against raising tuition. Students from the Pacific islands make up about 2 percent of the student population systemwide — about 900 students total, most of whom attend UH-Manoa.

 

Lillian Segal, a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia, earned her master's degree in education from UH-Manoa and plans to attend UH for a doctoral degree. She urged regents to reject the tuition increase proposal.

 

"Please don't close the door on future Pacific island generations from accomplishing their educational dreams and contributing positively to society," she said.

 

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

 

During the five-year implementation of the new financial aid program, need-based assistance is expected to quadruple from $4 million to $16 million, according to Linda Johnsrud, vice president of Academic Planning and Policy at UH.

 

Even with financial aid, Segal said, students would struggle to pay the rest of tuition and books, as well as living expenses. She also said she is concerned the Pacific Islander Scholarship would take grant money from Hawai'i residents and Native Hawaiians.

 

NATIVE HAWAIIANS

 

The increase does not affect Native Hawaiian students or the Native Hawaiian need-based tuition waivers. Native Hawaiian students who reside outside of Hawaii also will continue to pay resident tuition.

 

However, some grants formerly planned for Hawai'i residents only will be opened to nonresidents as well, Johnsrud said.

 

Starting with fall 2007, students from Pacific island countries or jurisdictions that do not have public four-year colleges — such as Samoa or the Marshall Islands — no longer will be eligible for the nonresident tuition differential, which had allowed them to pay the in-state tuition rate to attend UH campuses. Instead, Pacific island students will begin paying 150 percent of the resident tuition rate.

 

Both the Pacific Islander tuition increase and the general systemwide tuition increase amounts to about $100 more per month through 2011 at UH-Manoa.

 

MAINTAINING ACCESS

 

UH President David McClain said that while Pacific Islanders would be charged a higher tuition since they would no longer qualify for the nonresidential tuition differential, they also would qualify for a new scholarship established under the UH Financial Assistance Program.

 

"We are absolutely committed to maintaining access for Pacific island students," McClain said during yesterday's meeting.

 

Hokulani Aikau, an assistant professor of political science at UH-Manoa, said the increase will deter Pacific Islanders from attending UH.

 

"We're trying to create revenue on the backs of those who are already disadvantaged. I find that very problematic," Aikau said.

 

McClain said that Aikau was "mistaken" in her understanding of the proposal and that the intention of it was to clarify nonresident tuition exemptions and to increase the amount of financial aid available to students.

 

According to Johnsrud, current nonresident students would be "grandfathered" in during the implementation of the financial aid program and would receive enough aid to cover tuition and other expenses.

 

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

 

Regent chairwoman Kitty Lagareta said regents were initially concerned that Pacific island students would not receive enough aid to cover the rising tuition, especially in 2011 when they are expected to pay more than $12,000.

 

But university officials assured the regents that enough aid would be available.

 

"Not only will they continue to get Pell Grants, there will be four new (financial aid) programs in place to provide additional support," Lagareta said. "We have plenty of money to provide that kind of support."

 

Angela Ka'anunu of Tonga, a UH-Manoa doctoral student in urban and regional planning, said the increase would deter students from her country from coming to UH, thereby limiting their chances of obtaining a college degree.

 

"Tonga is among the poorest countries in the world," Ka'anunu said. "A 50 percent increase would add to the hardship."

 

Ka'anunu said that many Pacific island students who attend college in Hawai'i are forced to work two part-time jobs just to get by and an increase in tuition would force many of them to go home.

 

"This increase would send the message that Hawai'i, and subsequently America, is closing its doors," she said.

 

Reach Loren Moreno at lmoreno@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

June 20, 2006

 

California Session Connects Hawaiians

 

Honolulu, HI – Accepting the invitation of Na Mamo, Inc., the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) traveled to Long Beach, California, on Sunday, June 10th, to conduct a workshop on the resources and services available through CNHA that benefit all Hawaiians, regardless of location. 

 

Met by a crowd of enthusiastic participants, Sean Craig, Assistant Vice President of CNHA, provided a briefing on the 5th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention scheduled for September 25-29, 2006, the Administration for Native Americans Grant Programs and other community resources including CNHA’s Hawaiian Way Fund founded in 2004 to create workplace giving opportunities that support Hawaiian organizations.  The session also included an up-to-the-minute update on the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act – the Akaka Bill, which if passed, would re-affirm the trust relationship between Hawaiians and the federal government and recognize Hawaiians as Native similar to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

 

Craig applauded Na Mamo, Inc. for their work and energy in sharing and extending the reach of Hawaiian culture, exquisite arts and practices.  “I got chicken skin being amongst our people that may live across the Pacific Ocean, but share the exact same passion for Hawaii.  We appreciated the Hawaiian style hospitality and for the opportunity to share and be a part of the Na Mamo family”.

 

Na Mamo, Inc., established in 1990, is better known as the hosts of one of the largest Hula festivals in southern California held annually in early September. Na Mamo, Inc. is a nonprofit Hawaiian organization whose goals are to perpetuate the Hawaiian culture through education.  For more information, contact Na Mamo, Inc. at www.namamo.org/ehm or via telephone at (909) 930-3994.

 

CNHA is a statewide and national association of Native Hawaiian organizations. Operating an active Policy Center, Grants Training and Resource Institute, Community Development Consulting Services and the Hawaiian Way Fund, we unify our members around solutions that embrace the strength of Native culture and knowledge in meeting community challenges. CNHA coordinates the Annual Native Hawaiian Convention in Honolulu every year to bring practitioners, community and policy makers together around issues important to Hawaiians.

 

 

 

 

June 16, 2006

 

Tribe opens $17 million clinic

 

Associated Press

 

COWETA, Okla. The Creek Nation hosts the grand opening today of a multi-million dollar Indian health care clinic that should reduce caseloads at other area Indian health centers.

 

The Koweta Indian Health Facility, located east of Coweta, is a 60-thousand-square-foot clinic that will be opened to patients June 20th.

 

The facility was funded by the Creek Nation and Indian Health Services. Creek Chief A-D- Ellis said the tribe funded 18 (m) million dollars for the building and land, and I-H-S is paying for staffing of the clinic, which will cost about 11 (m) million dollars per year.

 

The clinic has 94 employees, a majority of which are tribal citizens.

 

Ellis said the Koweta clinic will be the largest and most modern of all of the tribe's five health clinics.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Friday, June 16, 2006

 

Native Hawaiian forum on Thursday

 

Advertiser Staff

 

The Asian American Journalists Association is inviting the public to attend a forum on Native Hawaiian issues and to view screenings of critically acclaimed films next week at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. The events are free and will be held in conjunction with the AAJA's 2006 national convention.

 

The Native Hawaiian forum will be conducted in a town hall meeting format. It will include the history and future of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Panelists at the forum will discuss the issue and the place of the Akaka bill in the debate.

 

It will take place in the Maui and Kaua'i rooms of the Sheraton on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.

 

"Being in Hawai'i, it seemed natural that we would want to have a public forum on Native Hawaiian issues," said Craig Gima, co-chairman of the AAJA-Hawai'i chapter.

 

Jeanne Mariani-Belding, who serves as AAJA's national vice president for print, said the forum is an "opportunity to have a public discussion on an issue that's vital to Hawai'i. I'm glad AAJA can provide that."

 

Speakers at the forum will include:

 

 

On June 24, the documentaries "Slanted Screen" and "An Untold Triumph" will be shown in the O'ahu and Waialua rooms of the Sheraton from noon to 3 p.m.

 

"Slanted Screen," a one-hour documentary, shows the portrayal of Asian men on the big screen. "An Untold Triumph" tells the story of 7,000 Filipino immigrants who sought the chance to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II.

 

The showing provides the opportunity to "recognize the contributions of the Filipino-American soldiers who fought in World War II, something that is maybe not as well-known as should be," Gima said.

 

The convention, to be held June 21 to 24 at the Sheraton Waikiki, will bring together more than 1,200 journalists and media professionals from across the country.

 

It is AAJA's 25th anniversary as the nation's largest professional organization for Asian-American and Pacific islander journalists.

 

 

 

 

June 18, 2006

 

Bethel will honor Vietnam War dead on Independence Day

 

THE WALL: Moving replica of national monument arrives for a week starting June 30.

 

By ALEX deMARBAN

Anchorage Daily News

 

A distant region of Alaska where military service and patriotism runs high will host the 252-foot-long Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall on Independence Day.

 

The wall's weeklong visit to Bethel beginning June 30 at a community park may be its most remote trip on the North American continent, said John Devitt, a Michigan resident and U.S. Army helicopter door gunner who created the replica 23 years ago.

 

"It's exactly why we took the effort and spent the time building it," said Devitt, reached in Kodiak on Friday, where the wall recently arrived by state ferry.

 

The shiny, half-sized replica of the memorial in Washington, D.C., has traveled to Hawaii several times and to Guam and Saipan, islands south of Japan in the Western Pacific Ocean.

 

It's also been to Alaska five times, and will visit several communities through July, but this will be the first time it's been off the road or ferry system, Devitt said.

 

After Kodiak, the wall will head to Bethel, Cordova and Juneau.

 

Alaska has more veterans per capita than all but one other state, according to the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Many of them live in Bethel and dozens of nearby villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Some 3,000 of the delta's 30,000 residents are veterans, said Ben Dale, manager of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Bethel.

 

Many people in Bethel and the surrounding Yup'ik villages, some of the poorest areas of the U.S., will never have the money to travel to Washington, D.C., he said.

 

"It's an honor for something of that magnitude to come to a small community like this," said Vietnam veteran Stanley Rodgers.

 

A member of the Army signal corps who strung phone lines for bases from one end of South Vietnam to the other, Rodgers said he lost several friends in Vietnam. The wall will jar memories that took him 11 years to forget.

 

"It'll bring back some tough ones," he said. "I might have tears rolling down my eyes."

 

Even better, the shiny memorial with more than 58,000 names of men killed in the conflict will be in Bethel for the Fourth of July, he said. That's one of the community's biggest celebrations, when hundreds of people from surrounding villages flock to the community of 6,000.

 

Only two people from the Y-K Delta died in the war and only 57 died from Alaska, according the National Archives Web site.

 

But veterans are everywhere in Western Alaska, Rodgers said. Many villagers joined the National Guard to make money or travel to Fairbanks, then transferred to more permanent duty in the Army or Marines, he said.

 

Former city manager Bob Herron, a Marine Corps veteran, whipped up community support when he heard last year that the wall was coming to Alaska. Made of 74 aluminum panels and weighing about 13,000 pounds, the only way to get the wall to Bethel was on a commercially operated C-130 aircraft, he said.

 

Anchorage-based Lynden Air Cargo agreed to halve its shipping price to $12,500 and local organizations donated thousands of dollars and manpower, said Herron.

 

Rodgers will look for the name of George Kilbuck, a former classmate and the first Alaska Native killed in the conflict, he said. The Army parachute jumper died at the age of 22 in 1965, the year the U.S. entered the war.

 

Kilbuck was a quiet classmate who entered high school in Bethel several years late because his family needed him to hunt for moose and other subsistence food, Rodgers said.

 

Rodgers, a city councilman, plans to ask his colleagues at the next meeting to honor Kilbuck with a resolution and plaque that can be placed on a city building.

 

There's no more appropriate time "than when the memorial is here," he said.

 

 

 

 

June 16, 2006

 

Kumu hula awarded highest U.S. folk arts honor

 

George Naope helped found the Merrie Monarch Festival

 

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The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded its highest honor for the folk arts to George Naope, the Hilo-based kumu hula and co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival.

 

Naope was among 11 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship award, which includes a $20,000 prize.

 

Naope left Wednesday for a week in Japan, where he had been invited to do a workshop, said Luana Kawelu, who runs the Merrie Monarch Festival with her mother, Dottie Thompson.

 

Kawelu spent two hours in conversation with Naope before he left, during which he mentioned that he had been invited to Washington, D.C., in September to receive some kind of honor, she said. He did not tell her any details.

 

"He's excited about going," Kawelu said. At 80, "he's as sharp as a tack," she said. "He's got ideas about what he still wants to do."

 

The nationwide honorees were selected for their artistic excellence, cultural authenticity and contributions to their field.

 

"In this 40th anniversary year of the NEA, it is particularly appropriate that we honor these master artists whose dedication and exceptional artistry have enriched our nation's cultural landscape," said Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Naope is revered for his knowledge of traditional hula and chant. Born on Oahu and raised on the Big Island, he began his study of hula at the age of 3 under his great-grandmother Mary Malia-Pukaokalani Naope.

 

In 1963 he founded the Merrie Monarch Festival, the largest and most prestigious hula competition in Hawaii.

 

Recognized by the state as a "living golden treasure," Naope has welcomed Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy to Hawaii. More recently he represented Hawaii at the wedding of Japan's Emperor Akihito.

 

The kumu hula received a Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement award earlier this year. He also received a Music Foundation of Hawaii Legacy Award.

 

Recipients of the NEA fellowship were chosen from 217 nominations by the public, according to the endowment.

 

Other recipients of this year's fellowships are carver and painter Charles Carrillo of Santa Fe, N.M.; American Indian storyteller Esther Martinez of San Juan Pueblo, N.M.; bluegrass singer Doyle Lawson of Tennessee; weaver Delores E. Churchill of Ketchikan, Alaska; blues pianist Henry Gray of Baton Rouge, La.; instrument maker Diomedes Matos of Deltona, Fla.; lap-harp player Wilho Saari of Naselle, Wash.; gospel and rhythm-and-blues singer Mavis Staples of Chicago; and the Treme Brass Band of New Orleans.

 

A series of events in September will honor the recipients, including a banquet, concert and awards presentation.

 

 

 

 

Posted: June 19, 2006

 

Arizona Indian Town Hall helps preserve culture

 

by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today

 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The preservation of culture and languages was the priority at the 26th Annual Arizona Indian Town Hall, which included a discussion on the apparently rising number of hate crimes and rising xenophobia toward American Indians in Arizona.

 

''This is the reality for American Indians,'' Arizona Indian Commissioner Cora Maxx-Phillips, Navajo, said during the third day of the town hall - ''Preserving Arizona's Tribal Cultural Resources, Sites and Languages,'' held June 5 - 7.

 

Maxx-Phillips said hate crimes and attitudes of hate toward American Indians and other people of color are on the rise in Arizona. She said the rise in white supremacy and ''Republican attitudes'' has become a dark reality.

 

''It is all about hatred, racism and violence. It is very much alive and well,'' Maxx-Phillips said in an interview with Indian Country Today during the Town Hall.

 

''We are always being told that who we are as a people is all wrong,'' she said. ''There is always someone saying, 'Everything about you is all wrong, we're going to fix it.'''

 

Maxx-Phillips said the Creator had a purpose in creating all people in a unique manner.

 

''Why were we created differently, if He wanted us to be all the same?''

 

Indians in Arizona are surrounded by a ''junky culture,'' she said, and the pressure to assimilate.

 

''Some of us Native Americans have even lost sight of who we are. We have adopted a culture that is a very junky culture, with junky values: we have lost sight of our spiritual values and the value of human life is diminishing. Everything is about money.''

 

Pointing out the number of sacred sites in Arizona under attack by developers, she said of the sacred places, ''This is the essence of who we are.''

 

Navajos are among 13 Indian tribes in the Southwest fighting to protect San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff from Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort's plan to use wastewater to make artificial snow on the mountain. It is a place of prayer and ceremonies, where medicine men gather healing herbs.

 

''We are caught up and engaged in this war,'' Maxx-Phillips said.

 

The war, she said, is being fought by American Indians who remain true to their spiritual and ancestral way of life as corporations seek to seize the land for profit. On the Navajo Nation, this includes a plan for in situ uranium mining near Crownpoint, N.M., which is opposed by the Navajo Nation.

 

Speaking of the corporations focused on seizing the land for profit, she said, ''They have their own agenda. It is the money and the greed that is fueling the energy and the momentum to destroy the culture, to destroy the spiritual values and the very essence of who we are.''

 

The Arizona Commission on Indian Affairs hosted the Town Hall. ACIA Board President Paul Nosie Jr., San Carlos Apache, said Arizona tribes are fighting the onslaught of desecration of their sacred sites.

 

''Tribes have always recognized that the controversy with sacred sites has been an issue for many tribes, he said. ''Recently, tribes have experienced an emotional controversy with the planned expansion of the Snowbowl in Flagstaff.''

 

Nosie, whose family and fellow tribal members have long fought the University of Arizona and international consortium's massive telescope complex on sacred Mount Graham, said Arizona tribes are faced with rapid growth and loss.

 

Ceremonial artifacts and human remains discovered by non-Indians are being dispersed and sent to institutions across the United States. The rapid increase in development is exposing more tribal villages, cultural and burial sites. There is the continued theft of tribal artifacts by dealers and collectors.

 

Ak-Chin Chairman Delia Carlyle praised the Arizona Indian Commission for the focus this year of the preservation of languages and culture and the efforts to create policies to protect the sacred.

 

Carlyle said the Ak-Chin community, south of Phoenix, borders the town of Maricopa, which is experiencing extremely rapid growth due to inexpensive land and housing prices. Rapid growth is bringing a demand for schools and increased services rapidly to the once-isolated Sonoran Desert area.

 

''Unfortunately, we are becoming a metro area,'' Carlyle said in an interview with ICT.

 

Carlyle said Ak-Chin, with 760 tribal members, are related linguistically to other O'odham in Arizona, Tohono O'odham, Gila River Pima and Salt River Pima, descendants of the Hohokam. Ak-Chin is the O'odham word for ''where the wash loses itself in the sand or ground.'' It refers to the traditional manner of irrigating beans, corn and squash with runoff from rains and floodwaters.

 

Ak-Chin are struggling to preserve their language as young people are increasingly speaking English as their first language.

 

''It is part of our past and plays a role in our future.'' Carlyle added that the majority of Ak-Chin over the age of 55 speak their Native language.

 

Ak-Chin also struggle to keep traditions alive. Carlyle said elected tribal leaders consult Ak-Chin elders before making major decisions.

 

This year's Arizona Indian Town Hall Report 2006, now in the editing process, was preparing during the session and provides insights into the struggle to preserve American Indian culture and languages in Arizona.

 

ACIA Executive Director Kenneth Poocha said the Arizona Indian Town Hall is committed to the mission of developing practical solutions to state-tribal issues.

 

Previous Town Halls have brought together tribal, state, local and federal agencies and private-sector representatives to make recommendations on issues ranging from tourism and economic development to cultural preservation.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Friday, June 16, 2006

 

Museum fights Hui Malama in court

 

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer

 

Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, one of two parties sued in the case involving cultural items from Forbes Cave, is facing a cross-claim by codefendant Bishop Museum, which is alleging a breach of contract.

 

The museum is asking that the U.S. District Court indemnify it from liability and that Hui Malama, a Native Hawaiian organization dedicated to repatriating human remains, pay any expenses the museum is incurring.

 

At issue are 83 sets of cultural objects, many of which are believed to have been taken from Forbes Cave and other nearby caves in the 1900s. They had been in the possession of the museum but lent in February 2000 to Hui Malama "pending completion of ... repatriation."

 

At the time, the items were the subject of a repatriation action under the guidelines of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

 

The term of the loan was for one year, museum attorney LindaLee K. Farm said in court documents. The museum recalled the items shortly after the loan was made "upon learning that some of the other then recognized claimants had not given Hui Malama authority to act on their behalf," court documents said.

 

"Despite repeated recalls of the loan ... and requests that it return the items, Hui Malama refused and still refuses to return the items to Bishop Museum," the documents said.

 

Hui Malama officials have stated repeatedly that they have placed the items in Forbes Cave, also known as the Kawaihae Caves Complex, either where they came from, or near where they came from, and that they consider the items repatriated.

 

Alan Murakami of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp., which is representing Hui Malama, said he was puzzled by the cross-claim filed in court Tuesday, noting that the museum had itself declared the items repatriated.

 

"If they, in their own words, are saying that (repatriation) is over and that it's complete, how can they allege breach of contract today?" Murakami said.

 

Farm said the museum does not view the repatriation process complete, noting that it moved away from its initial retraction relatively quickly.

 

"We loaned the items to Hui Malama, they didn't return them," she said. "Legally, they're obligated to return them, especially if we recall the loan and say 'please give them back to us.' "

 

Last year, Na Lei Alii Kawananakoa and the Royal Hawaiian Academy of Traditional Arts sued the museum and Hui Malama for the return of the items, alleging that repatriation of the items had not occurred under guidelines set forth. Those two groups, like Hui Malama, are among the claimants in the NAGPRA process.

 

Trial is set for Sept. 26 before U.S. District Judge David Ezra. Hui Malama has refused to follow court orders demanding that the items be returned pending the trial. The court has ordered the items retrieved, with or without Hui Malama's cooperation.

 

Reach Gordon Y.K. Pang at gpang@honoluluadvertiser.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2006 Elections Present 101 Seats for Voters to Decide

 

WHAT:  Activating Voter Registration in 2006 to weigh in on 101 seats at the federal, state and county levels is on the minds of many in Hawaii today.  The seats that will come before the electorate in the fall of 2006 include the following:

 

 

 

 

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CIVIL NO. 06-1-0135 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAII SUMMONS TO: HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KANAKAOLE; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF GEORGE H. AWAI, also known as GEORGE HOOMANAWANUI AWAO, SR., HERMAN K AWAI; ELIZABETH KAPEKA NONOKA; YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Plaintiff KAU HOLDING COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, claims fee simple ownership to the land described as: All of apana 1 and 2 of R.P. 5409, LCA 7553, to Kanakaole at Kahilipaliiki, Kau, Island and County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii, TMK's (3) 9-5-007-005 and (3) 9-5-007-008 YOU ARE HEREBY FURTHER NOTIFIED that Plaintiff KAU HOLDING COMPANY, a Delaware limited liability company, has filed a Complaint to Quiet Title in the Third Circuit Court, Hilo, Hawaii, requesting that title to the above-described real property be de-termined. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear in the courtroom of the HONORABLE GLENN S. HARA, Judge of the above-entitled Court, 75 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawaii on Wednesday, the 19th day of July, 2006, at 8:00 a.m., or to file an answer or other pleading and serve it before said day upon Plaintiff's counsel, TOM C. LEUTENEKER, Carlsmith Ball LLP, attorneys for Plaintiff, whose mailing address is One Main Plaza, Suite 400, 2200 Main Street, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, 96793, to show cause, if you have any, why the prayer of said Complaint should not be granted. Unless you file an answer before the time aforesaid or appear at the Third Circuit Court, Hilo, County and State of Hawaii, at the time and place aforesaid, your default will be recorded, and said Complaint will be taken as confessed and a judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED: Hilo, Hawaii, May 12, 2006. E. YAMABE CLERK OF THE ABOVE- ENTITLED COURT CARLSMITH BALL LLP TOM C. LEUTENEKER 721-0 One Main Street, Suite 400 2200 Main Street Wailuku, Maui HI 96793 Telephone: (808) 242-4535 Attorneys for Plaintiff (Hon. Adv.: June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2006) (A-448606) Posted on 6/6/2006

 

 

CIVIL NO. 06-1-0140 (3) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAII AMENDED SUMMONS TO: HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KEKINO (w); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KANIKAU (w) aka KANIKAU KAPU (w); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KAPU (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF PALA (k) aka LUI PALA (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KILIKA (w) aka KILIKA PALA (w) aka VICTORIA PALA; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF WILLIAM AKI; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KAKOLU (k); LUCY AKI; KEKOANA AKI; KIALALUHI AKI; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KAHAULEPA (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF POHAKU (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF WAWAE (k); UNKNOWN OWNERS and/or INTERESTED PARTIES OF ROADWAY crossing over the southerly portion of Apana 1 of Land Commission Award Number 2554; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF IWINUI (w), aka KUKAI (w) and KUKAE (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF LAI (w), aka LAIE (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KALE (k); VIOLET KAIMIKAUA MORI, aka VIOLET K. MORI; SALLY KAIMIKAUA BLAKA, aka SALLY KAIMIKAUA BLAHA and SALLY K. BLAKA; ESTATE OF JAMES KAIMIKAUA, JR., DECEASED; VIOLET JOSEPHINE KAIMIKAUA, now known as VIOLET BLAHA; CHARLOTTE RAPOSAS; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAIWIKAHIKO (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF PEPEE (k); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAUANUI; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAPOHAKU (k), aka KAPOHAKU KAHAULEPA and POHAKU; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAAEA; UNKNOWN OWNERS and/or INTERESTED PARTIES OF WAIHEE DITCH; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAHALE (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF PALAUALELO (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF HELELA (w); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KELIINUI (k); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAPULE (k); KALIKA KAPU; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF ABRAHAM K. MCAULTON; ROSE E. MCAULTON; BARBARA MAMO AQUINO; ARTHUR SANFORD MCAULTON; VERONICA PUANANI REZENTES; SANDRA MAENANI CHONG; ROSEMARIE LANI YEE; MELVIN KAUINAOKALANI MCAULTON; HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF KAPAKU (k); HEIRS OR ASSIGNS OF MAHOE (w); CARL G. K. KAIMIKAUA; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF PALA (k) aka LUI PALA (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF MAUUMAE (w) aka MAUUMAE KAWAILANA (w) and MAUIMAE KAWAILANA (w); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF HARRY MAIO; HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KEKAHUNA (w) aka KEKAHUNA ABISAI (w) and KEKAHUNA APIKAI (w); and persons named above who are deceased, or persons holding under said Heirs, and spouses, assigns, successors, personal representatives, executors, administrators, and trustees of persons named above who are deceased; Does 1 through 100; and all other persons unknown claiming any right, title estate, lien or interest in the real property described and TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Plaintiff WAHI HO OMALU claims fee simple ownership to all of the following real property: LCA 2461:2 to Kanehailua, 0.45 acre, more or less; LCA 2468:1 & :2 to Keau; LCA 2554:1, 2 & :3 to Wawae, 0.500 acre, more or less; LCA 3275-D Kaholomoana; LCA 3275-I to Kaia, 1-10/100 acres, more or less; LCA 3275-W to Kaaea, 0.490 acre, more or less; LCA 3451 to Kapahi or Napahi, 1-53/100 acres, more or less; LCA 3456:4 to Keliinui, 75/100 acre, more or less; and LCA 11222 to Kapaku, 1-58/100 acres, more or less; all located to Waiehu, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, portion of Tax Key (2) 3-3-002-001. YOU ARE HEREBY FURTHER NOTIFIED that Plaintiff WAHI HO OMALU, filed a Complaint to Quiet Title in the Second Circuit Court, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, requesting that title to the above-described real property be determined quieted as to any and all adverse claims not presented and/or adjudicated in this action. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear in the courtroom of the Honorable Joseph E. Cardoza, Judge of the above entitled Court, Hoapili Hale, 2145 Main Street, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, on July 7, 2006, at 8:30 a.m., or to file an answer or other pleading and serve it before said day upon Plaintiffs' counsel TOM C. LEUTENEKER, Carlsmith Ball LLP, 2200 Main Street, Suite 400, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii 96793, to show cause, if any you have, why the prayer of said Complaint should not be granted. Unless you file an answer before the time aforesaid or appear at the Second Circuit Court, Wailuku, County of Maui, State of Hawaii, at the time and place aforesaid, your default will be recorded, and said Complaint will be taken as confessed and a judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED: Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, May 23, 2006. C. CASIL CLERK OF THE ABOVE ENTITLED COURT CARLSMITH BALL LLP TOM C. LEUTENEKER 721-0 2200 Main Street, Suite 400 Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii 96793 Telephone No. 808.242.4535 Fax No. 808-244-4974 Attorney for Plaintiff (Hon. Adv.: May 26; June 2, 9, 16, 2006) (A-422728) Posted on 5/26/2006

 

 

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAII SUMMONS TO: DEFENDANTS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KANEKUAPUU (k); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KAPULEMANAOLE (w); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF KEEWAHINE (w); HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF MEEWAHINE (w); JOHN DOES 1-5; JANE DOES 1-5; DOE CORPORATIONS 1-5; DOE PARTNERSHIPS 1-5; DOE ENTITIES 1-5; DOE GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES 1-5; Heirs, Assigns, Successors, Personal Representatives, Executors, Administrators, Guardians, and Trustees of the Above-Named Defendants, and all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described herein adverse to Plaintiffs' ownership; TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Plaintiffs ROBERT G. LEWIS, SR. and CHRISTINA K. KAPONO, as Guardian Prochein Ami for JAYNA HAUOLI KAPONO, a minor, have filed a Third Amended Complaint to Quiet Title, Determine Right of Way and For Judicial Partition in the First Circuit Court, State of Hawaii, Civil No. 03-1-2547-12 VSM, to determine all claims adverse to, and to establish Plaintiffs' fee simple title to: All of that certain parcel of land (being a portion of the land(s) described in and covered by Royal Patent Number 4521, Land Commission Award Number 7765 to Kanekuapuu) situate, lying and being at Alewa, Honolulu, City and County of Honolulu, State of Hawaii, TMK (1) 1-7-039-003. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear in the courtroom of the Honorable Victoria S. Marks, Judge of the above-entitled Court, in her courtroom, at 777 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, on July 11, 2006, at 9:00 o'clock a.m., of said day or to file an answer or other pleading and serve it before said day upon BRUCE B. KIM, attorney for Plaintiffs, whose address is 600 Kapiolani Boulevard, Suite 206, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Third Amended Complaint to Quiet Title, Determine Right of Way and For Judicial Partition. DATED: Honolulu, Hawaii, May 10, 2006 N. ANAYA Clerk of the above-entitled Court (Hon. Adv.: May 26; June 2, 9, 16, 2006) (A-442121) Posted on 5/26/2006

 

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