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Pahualiikoaokaawaloa <br /> Kulana Huli Honua <br /> Foundation of the Search for Wisdom <br /> e NomProf4 501-C1 Orgatization <br /> Mikahala Roy, Executive Director <br /> <br /> Members of Hawaii County Council <br /> Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort, Kona <br /> <br /> 9/19/07 <br /> <br /> Distinguished Council Members: <br /> <br /> Kulana Huli Honua wholeheartedly supports the strong efforts of Pele Hanoa and the Ka'u <br /> <br /> Preservation in their work to preserve Punalu'u and the greater Ka'u area for generations to come. <br /> <br /> Aunty Pele, her family and members of this organization are to be congratulated on their <br /> <br /> thorough and effective efforts to protect Punalu'u and Ka'u. They continually serve to educate <br /> <br /> and enlighten the world about a place that may be found only here - Pttnalu'u - in Ka'u, Hawaii. <br /> By the words of the late Edith Kanaka'ole, we know that Ka'u is shortened from another word. <br /> <br /> The root word is Ka'umauma, meaning "breast" or "feeder". Ka'u, then, is the "feeder" to all <br /> <br /> other lands here on Hawaii. The name gives respect to Ka'u's vast and long history highlighted <br /> by the arrival of waves of the people, the family of `Oiwi, who arrived from elsewhere in the <br /> great Pacific. <br /> Such old lands deserve to heaz their fnst peoples. The fnst people deserve to be honored, <br /> respected and cared for by a government who stole the lands of Hawaii, deposing her majesty <br /> Queen Lili'uokahmi. Almost 115 years Iater, detrimental effects of that overthrow are still being <br /> felt. Poverty and joblessness for `O'iwi in Ka'u and elsewhere exist too prominently. Has James <br /> Kent & Associates existed in Hawaii long enough to study the detrimental effects spoken of here? <br /> <br /> It is one thing to do survey studies of present populations, it is entirely another to uphold the laws <br /> created to protect the Hawaiian people and their ancestral homeland. <br /> The answers lie not in promoting a lifestyle foreign to this land, but are in creating and working <br /> hard to build industries to enhance the land and provide employment, satisfaction and restored <br /> <br /> respect to the people. Please vote in favor of Councilman Jacobson's resolution that will allow <br /> <br /> the County to purchase Punalu'u and the surrounding 156 acres. <br /> <br /> The land and her people deserve wise leadership that assures the well-being of the land and her <br /> first people for generations to come. This is the charge you inherited - do your very best. E <br /> <br /> malama is Punalu'u; a malama is Ka'u, a malama is Hawaii. <br /> `O Wau tho I Ke Aloha <br /> Mika <br /> Roy ideni <br /> cant. r>o. 3 t[.q' • 9 u <br /> Ref. 7o:hr~MD .D`int'` <br /> Ref. Date - <br /> P.O. Box 596 Kailua-Kona, HI 96745-0596 <br /> (808) 327 0123 (808) 327-9791 Fax www.kulana.org <br /> <br />