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Kealoha Family Lo'i 2025 PONC Suggestion Form <br /> ahupua'a with abundant lo'i and access to water on both sides. Amazing they stayed in <br /> private hands given how [the] Niuli'i Plantation bought up (or acquired the titles) to <br /> most of the privately held lands in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." <br /> In addition to taro cultivation, this property has a legacy of hula and other related <br /> cultural practice. The Kohala Reunion is a three-day event held every five years since it <br /> was initiated in 2000 by a small group of Kohala kupuna (elders) including Fred Cachola <br /> to celebrate the rich history of Kohala. On the first day of the 2022 Reunion, kupuna who <br /> had been students of Aunty Margaret Tablit presented their hula. Aunty Margaret taught <br /> generations of Kohala residents hula and received other kumu hula and noted Hawaiian <br /> musicians on this property. Some of her students —the Lim family of Kohala - went on to <br /> win the 2006 Merrie Monarch competition as Halau Lei o Kaholoku. <br /> Finally, this Properties are riprarian and located at the junction of two important <br /> streams, Waikane and Niuli'i Streams. Both hold important cultural and ecological <br /> function as they merge and then feed into the ocean at Keokea. The more the lo'i on <br /> these parcels are protected and stewarded, the greater the cultural and ecosystem <br /> function of the property as well as the two riprarian streams, particularly as the <br /> nutrients from lo'i kalo feed back into the streams, which feed the stream ecosystems, <br /> estuary and near shore fishery. (Shae pull in references if time allows). <br /> 3) Describe (and include maps if available) showing any significant relationship to larger <br /> historical,cultural,and/or natural landscape. <br /> The Properties are <br /> primarily made up of lo'i <br /> kalo that you can see are <br /> part of a much larger lo'i <br /> kalo system, as depicted <br /> in a Lydgate map from <br /> the 1880s (see map <br /> here, to the right). This <br /> map shows the extensive <br /> lo'i kalo (depicted by <br /> cross hatch marks with <br /> dots) that were once �y <br /> r <br /> thriving along the Niuli'i If <br /> and Waikani Streams <br /> (the streams centered at <br /> the bottom of the map). <br /> The golden star <br /> identifies the location of <br /> the Properties, at the <br /> convergance of the Niuli'i and Wakani Streams. <br /> Page 5 of 7 <br />