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this land go to? There is—I've done a few births recently out in that area, and it's, it's sad and it's
<br /> shocking. For me, I walk on that earth, and you can hear that earth talk to you. And so you are
<br /> looking at lands, you are looking at the gulch, you are looking at the, the place where
<br /> Kamehameha had his, his kalo, you are looking at—who, who are these workshops for? For more
<br /> New Age people of Caucasian descent, or whatever descent they are, that have their problems,
<br /> coming over here to now, now get healed from this land? Is that what this land is about? Is that
<br /> what, is that what the water is about? How much water they can use? When you do cultural
<br /> impact assessments and when you look at the environmental impact, who is giving that? Is it, who
<br /> are the archaeologist? Are they from here? Or do they know? Do they, can they hear? Can they
<br /> feel? Can they see? So, when I, I look at these, these three items, I just go, whether it's up in
<br /> Kaloko or whether it's in Hawi, it's like who are the ones that are making these decisions on these
<br /> places? I called several people from Kohala this morning to try to—you know, Cindy and I, this is
<br /> almost like a fulltime job for us,but we have our other many jobs. So we try to step it up because
<br /> that is my kuleana. So my koko doesn't come from here, but it does at this point, and my, my
<br /> kuleana is to do that as helping all these babies and all these, mostly Hawaiian descent, that is my
<br /> job now is to take care of the land and the water. So when I look at the archaeologists, I know that
<br /> if they don't decide the right way, they get fired, and I know that straight from them. So how do
<br /> we get justice on these things? How do we, who is the land being sent, given to? You know,who
<br /> is the land, or who owns this land? And then, is that going to go back into, ever back into the
<br /> people? Because how many Hawaiian people don't have land? And so, who is this healing, and
<br /> who is this destructing? The more you want to put up all these other New Age little spaces for
<br /> people to come and heal, but what about the people? Oh,yeah, that's right, they come in and
<br /> clean up, do the laundry, make the food, you know. But, so in all of these places, who isI ask
<br /> the Leeward Planning Committee[sic] to not have invested interests in any of these projects.
<br /> Because I know that for myself or anybody that sits on boards—I've sat on boards—you have to
<br /> recuse yourself. And so when you look at those things that you don't, that you really look at the
<br /> people, you look at the land,you look at the water, and you look at the cultural impact, not just
<br /> from what's on the paper or what's been agreed upon, but what the heart and soul of this. How
<br /> many people? When you—the way I was taught by, and these were, these were,they told me back
<br /> way back that the land and the water was much stronger, but now you look at the, at these people,
<br /> who is it affecting? When you rape the land,when you take that water, when you poison it—is
<br /> that, do I have, I have three minutes?
<br /> DEFRANCO: Yeah.
<br /> LOPRINZL Okay. I mean, I, I have three things I'm talking about so that's
<br /> DEFRANCO: You are on your last three minutes.
<br /> LOPRINZL Oh, I'm on my last three, okay, okay. I didn't know if that was piece or three or
<br /> what.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Okay.
<br /> LOPRINZI: So when you look at, when you look at those, those factors, look at it, step back, and
<br /> imagine that you were back here hundreds and thousands of years, from the beginning. Kohala is
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