2022-07-21 Leeward Exh D (Public Testimony re Items 56 Hawaii One1 PL-REZ-2022-000014 PL-SMA-2022-000012)

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VITOUSEK: Continuing on Cindy Freitas? FREITAS: Aloha. Aloha kakou. [spoke in Hawaiian language - inaudible] I'm going to take Item 95 and 96, if I can have those minutes, 6 minutes. Thank you. My name is Cindy Freitas. I am a native descendant of the native inhabitant of Hawaii prior to 1778. Born and raised in Hawaii. I am also a practitioner, who practice the culture traditional practices that was instilled in me by my grandparents. In view of Hawaii Supreme Court PASH Ka Pa`akai o ka `Aina, and Pele Defense decision. The issue related to native Hawaiian gathering fishing rights and religious purposes must be address. These rights must be addressed in terms of culture, historical, natural resources and associated with traditional customary practice of the site. An Ahupua`a is a land division usually extended from the mountain to the sea along the shorelines such as ridges or other natural characteristics. In Pukui and Elbert SPA 9 define Ahupua`a the land division usually extended from uplands to the sea, so called because the boundary was marked by a heap or one ahu of stones. Article 12, Section 7 of the Hawaii Constitutional provides the State affirms, reaffirms shall protect all rights, customarily and traditional exercise for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes posed by ahupua`a tenants who are the descendants of Hawaii. Who inhabit the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778. The "—" sites that the applicant claim is incorrect. There are more sites that was left out like the Kuakini Wall. From an accumulated perspective, the impact on cultural resource has been and would continue to be substantial adverse and significant. The cumulative impact to geological resource in a construction develop projects. The magnitude of the significance of cumulated impact to the site that will be irreversible or irrecoverable. The existing cumulative impact on genealogy, soil slopes stability and other factors is considered to be substantial adverse and significant. The archaeology inventory survey for the tax key 7-7-008:121 land of Kapala`alaea, Ahupua`a done by Haun & Associates in January 2006 is incomplete. Due to the fact that kumulipo our ancestor always buried their loved ones in the area that they live. I find it unacceptable that there are only two burials. Finding two burials finding in the inventory, book on archaeology survey Kahalu`u and Keauhou, North Kona, Hawaii 1974. This is still a village of many Hawaiians who took care of the `aina for the future generations to come and practice the traditional practice today, which we are still doing as a descendant prior to the 1778. I find it very disrespectful that applicant states that there does not appear to be any evidence of any ongoing traditional cultural practices on pages 37, 38, 56, 57, 58, 69 and 70 of their so-called County of Hawaii Planning Department Background Report Item 45 and 46. Please remove this statement is incorrect. The applicant lot is adjacent to tax key 7-8-010:004 which is considered historical preservation. I find it very ironic and disbelief that the applicant's knew about the adjacent lot next to that applicant's lot. Reference Punawele Henry Kekahuna, the Maps of Henry Kekahuna Bishop Museum 2011. Reference "—" April 2007. There was not significant consultation with cultural practitioner, cultural descendants, lineal descendants conducted for this project. There was not an emic perspective used when identifying culture 2 EXHIBIT D