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refer that in the I'm hundred percent Hawaiian, and I'm very proud of it. And all these
<br />things that going on now in the situation, and I hope that the bill of Akaka will be passed.
<br />I read the paper, what's going on, and so it's to do with legislature. And I hope you do
<br />pass, that us Hawaiian should have rights to be free with our `aina from our ancestor
<br />back. I was raised in a way of respecting of the land, and all my life I'm not from
<br />Keaukaha, but they think I'm from Keaukaha, but I have family from Keaukaha. I'm
<br />back when the 72 generation of King Kamehameha the Great, ancestor, and very long
<br />Hawaiian last name of my ancestors, which I found out cannot really be pronounced, of
<br />my great- great- great -great ancestors. I believe that today I'm sitting here. I know
<br />Shelley. I been running on the free bus that we have now that can bring people over that
<br />cannot afford. That's how I know about being here today. This is my first time as being
<br />here, and I been in lot of things like been to, like the Department of Hawaiian Home
<br />Land. And I been like 22 places where people live in, and they would be in like, have to
<br />be pre -owned kind of homes, have to be removed from their home and I have to buy it,
<br />that I refuse to do so. I believe it's wrong for doing that to the people that already was
<br />paying their land and cannot continue to pay their property and have to be move out onto
<br />the streets to find another place. I refuse of a lot of things that was not right, you know,
<br />`cause I already have an `aina, okay, that's in Maku `u. I pay for my land. I believe it's
<br />one Hawaiian that the Hawaiians should not be paying for it, `cause it was belongs to
<br />our king before then. Since we are one statehood, and we been a statehood from 1959,
<br />and before that I know it was a territory. I believe in and stand for the rights of the
<br />Hawaiian native, speak up for them, `cause I'm hundred percent. And then I have a lot of
<br />family all over in the islands, and so many of them respect me and some don't. I
<br />as a Hawaiian being put down, where I live, been called to have me arrested and things
<br />like that. Not to have to be afraid of nothing, you know, and I was like don't want have
<br />no trouble, things like that, where I'm staying now. `Cause I am with the kupunas. I
<br />dance hula. I like to be with them about a year. And with most of them, it's all my
<br />relative. They all retired. And I'm very proud to be with the seniors. So I hope that this
<br />thing will be for them who have their land to be sold why they have to sell it. I read a
<br />lot of things about, you know, what they try to do, but the governor is talking with the
<br />mayor. I seen, I read, in the front page of the Tribune - Herald, about the land has been
<br />for some kind of things and people rumors, you know, come into my
<br />ears, telling me things. But I have to read. I don't know if the newspaper is true, okay.
<br />It can be like they spending a lot of money going off and things like that, you know, the
<br />mayor. I read about the mayor, going away, spending and things like that. I
<br />don't know if people read the paper or watch the news, but it's what it's therefor.
<br />They're very short of money, and then the state have to work three days without pay. I
<br />really like a lot of things that happened like that. But native Hawaiian, we never
<br />had all those kind of problem. So now is it because people is like greedy for money?
<br />Wants money so as to sell the land. As what I look for, you know. As what I look at what
<br />they doing now in life, in life now. Okay. And I say if they doesn't like too much like
<br />spending too much, try to like budget or something like that, maybe we'll . And a
<br />longtime I watched television on Discovery. They had this old money that they burned.
<br />If they never burn all this old money, they could have used it, see? I know it's a true fact.
<br />Everything is all true. Coming here, as my first time speaking here, to all the people here
<br />and people that I know and people that I don't know and people who know me, you know,
<br />I hope that the lands will be like, you know, like be used in a way that people really need
<br />it. For one thing, we had homeless people. They have no place. Why don't the mayor
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