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Banyan Tree, not a Banyan Tree, but a Monkeypod tree cut down, and then realized that a lot of,
<br /> some of the bodies were exhumed, I'm not sure if it was family members or what,but unless you
<br /> put notice into the paper that states, you know, you need, anybody that might be descendants of
<br /> the gravesites and stuff like that, please come forward, so they, you know, bodies can—oh, not
<br /> bodies,but the gravesite can be identified or something, okay? And, not only that, I don't know
<br /> how SHPD can get, become involved without the Big Island Burial Council being involved as
<br /> well as NAGPRA, and this is an act, this Federal Act,North American Graves Protection and
<br /> Repatriation Act. All these people gotta be involved. Not only that, I believe jurisdiction is
<br /> under the State Department of Land and Natural Resources. They have to be also consulted as
<br /> well as the Aha Moku Council, which is legislated by the State of Hawai`i Legislature, and it's I
<br /> don't know, I forget what act they are under. But, anyway, thesepeople have to be consulted.
<br /> So, you got a lot of work to do. As far as the hydrology thing also when we had our recent storm
<br /> the past couple of days, it started filling up. I wish I had more time—.
<br /> CLARKSON: Thank you. Well, thank you. Mr. Vicente?
<br /> VICENTE: Good morning. My name is Dwight Vicente representing the Hawaiian Kingdom.
<br /> I've heard false statements made that, I haven't seen any proof that C. Brewer owned the lands.
<br /> C. Brewer was here under treaty, and the.1875 Treaty, what you call the Reciprocity Treaty, was
<br /> not signed by King Kalakaua nor was it signed by the U.S. President, so the plantation business,
<br /> American plantation business being here was illegal. And, there were only leasing the lands.
<br /> How did they, it turned out lease to own? And, those lands are crown lands. You cannot sell
<br /> those lands. So, that statement about they owned the land and now Ed Olson owns the land, is
<br /> fraudulent. There's no document that shows-and there's no document showing that the
<br /> Kingdom doesn't exist. The Kingdom didn't disappear. It's still here. Iolani Palace still stands.
<br /> The people are still here. The people's native tenant rights to the land is still here. There's no
<br /> document that extinguishes any of those rights whether it be the rights of the Crown to those
<br /> lands and the rights to lease those lands. Ed Olson doesn't own the land. Neither did C. Brewer
<br /> own the land. There's no treaty right now. The Reciprocity Treaty was illegal, so if you're
<br /> American, you're an illegal alien here. All the other treaties ended in 1897, so if you come, your
<br /> descendant or you came from another country, unless you've been naturalized to the Hawaiian
<br /> Kingdom, you're an illegal alien. And, looking at this Commission, I happen to question your
<br /> nationality, whether,you have jurisdiction over these lands. You gotta remember in 1898, these
<br /> lands were not ceded to the United States. The leased lands had a contract on them, and they
<br /> couldn't impair those contracts. ,The lands that was illegally ceded was the Crown and
<br /> Government lands that did not possess a valid contract at that time, but under the U.S.
<br /> Constitution, there is no authority, and the Republic of Hawaii was U.S. citizens who was here
<br /> illegally. U.S. Minister Stevens committed crimes. Not war crimes, but criminal acts. Same
<br /> with the other U.S. citizens. They had no right to be here. No right to commit those crimes. It's
<br /> still a crime today, and this constitutional question is unresolved yet, so you cannot move
<br /> forward. The Queen's protest of January 17 is unresolved yet. The only court that can deal with
<br /> it because it deals with U.S. Minister Stevens is the U.S. Supreme Court. His acts was criminal,
<br /> and the U.S. Supreme Court is the one that has jurisdiction over U.S. Minister Stevens.
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