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lands but more importantly in trying to stop the theft of their lands by the State of Hawai‘i, being <br />‘O‘oma and Keāhole kuleana lands, Hu‘ehu‘e Ranch, and speculating developers of the mauka <br />portions. My great grandfather Papa Jacob was also an attorney, and because he was aware of the <br />illegal overthrown and how the illegally occupying government, businessmen, ranchers and <br />speculating developers were trying to steal the lands, he made it a point that only one person was <br />given the kuleana or responsibility for all lands belonging to both himself and his son Henry. <br />Because my grandfather Tutu man Henry had no children, he kāna hānai adopted my mother as his <br />only daughter, and passed onto her the kuleana, as it was passed onto him from his father, and so on. <br />As instructed by my mother Amy and as Hawaiian protocol dictates prior to my father’s passing in <br />2008 the kuleana for all documents and lands belonging to Papa Jacob P. Kamaka and Henry P. <br />Kamaka were passed onto me as the eldest son. These lands also included Land Grant 2972 Ka‘akau <br />Kama for 515 acres signed on August 24, 1864 by King Kamehameha V, not III as my uncle had <br />mentioned, it was Kamehameha V. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Mr. Freitas? <br /> <br />FREITAS: Yes. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Excuse me. Kala mai, but I have to interject. Testimony is either to communicate your <br />support or non-support of the application. So I respectfully ask that maybe you direct your testimony <br />in the direction of your support or non-support of the application. <br /> <br />FREITAS: Well, actually, what I’ll do is I’ll --. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: I respect, I respect what you have --. <br /> <br />FREITAS: -- I’ll go ahead and just --. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: -- to share with us, but. <br /> <br />FREITAS: -- share the Exhibits that are being included. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Okay. <br /> <br />FREITAS: And Exhibit A is the Lang Grant 2972 Ka‘akau Kama, of which it was awarded to my <br />grandfather. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: I guess --. <br /> <br />FREITAS: Exhibit B --. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: -- if I could, if I could just interject one more time, Mr. Freitas. Our, the issue that we <br />have to decide on today is not on the rightful ownership of the property, but it’s merely for a rezoning <br />and a subdivision of the subject property. Your issues and concerns are valid and real, and I respect <br />that. But this is not the right venue for us to share in a discussion of that or provide opinions relative <br />of how it should or not impact the application. So if you support, then you support; if you do not <br />11 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />