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~joos 10. 0..1.98 SL~~ 11:12 F?,1 80826569 i F • y ~ ~LgF2I A LUKZEta 1t saddet2s our hearts to see what has happened and. what .is taking place as we try to hang on to our life style ..and ctiltuxo. Many who worked for the plantation and others will agree that we have lost a special life style. The many jabs that were available wh~thex you had a ~rltlcation or not. 2 _ Famila,os acid friends at that time were c];ose. You could fee]. that tvgeL'herrtcs5. 3. You. could go to families, friends and peoples homes whether they lived in a casctp or not anc~ receive that warm aloha. as they do their cultural thing_ 4. You could go anywhere in faasc?akua from the mountain to the ocean and would mot be stoppec~_ Although certain areas you had to get a pass. 5. You could travel to azly area along the Hamakua Coast to pick Opihi, catch fish, hunt pig {Puss) tv bring home food to put aab the taL~le for yo~ir family to eat x~ot to mention the ?narsy tradi.ciorial luaus we r2a.d at that tirnP . 6 _ You could travel to the rc?any forests to pick the beautiful flowers to make ou,r leis axzd also to C1o our cultural thing' . zany affluenr_ companies and individuals have tnov®d here since the closure of the plantation trying to get 1a~ad anyway they can whether to start a business or just for themse~.ves at the same time trying' to change the exista.ng laws which will affect our life style. with the economy being as it is an~3 people who were born, rai.sad encl who still live in Hama3¢u4~, needing jabs tY#e HCCH has tried to address these issues with az2 open miaicl and explress our concerns i.n a professional mater but to ~~hat extent do ~@ let these outside people a.nd those who nave mo~reci h~r~ recently take our Aiwa away. At the Cost of our life style? we unc~erseaxzd that ti~t~~s are cl~axtging and we cannot stop progress but along with iarogz~ess we wazit Lo snake sure ghat our life style, natxv~ seed cultural r~.ghts are being protected and not forgot.Cen. In January of 1997, the HCC}i wrote letters to our public representatives express~.ng our concerns about Ithese issues and the tteany probxe?tts which haves surfaced since the closure oP the plantation. Although we did receive replie~ f rom same of ouz repreeeritatives the zesporls~ was not favo~•ala',le _ And for those representatives who said that o'er concerns would be ~iv~tl to the proper peoplo irking sure that they be addressed in the C