2015-09-17 Leeward Exh B (SMA 15-060)

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the County Resource Commission \[sic\] on this very subject here. We of the Royal Order of Kamehameha on a normal basis do not commit or come out and do public testimonies; however, because of Pauahi and of this project we have decided to come out and give our opinions and mana‘o. The Royal Order of Kamehameha ‘Ekahi was established on April 11, 1865 by King Kamehameha V, Lot Kapuāiwa, to honor his legacy of his grandfather, Kamehameha the Great. Our purpose is to preserve and perpetuate the ancient chiefly customs and traditions of Hawai‘i, and continue the work of our beloved Kingdom set forth by our founder. The vision and direction that Kamehameha Schools propose in the development in the restoration of once very important ali‘i complex. This area was the seat of government back then. We have many ancestors that sit, that are in here today. And it was kapu. This complex’s full of rich archaeological sites in conjunction with the cultural educational program for our ‘ōpio are all in line with the wishes of Pauahi. Our children are the top priority. For this work, the privacy and isolation is required, controlled management of controlled access is required. We support that. Any further expansion for public access in this development would be detrimental to the outcome of the educational program of our kids. We strongly urge you not to allow further public access and obstruction into this project, which would definitely cause unnecessary distractions to the learning process of our children. The Royal Order, again, has strong support for this project. Those that have lived here on this project here on this land and this ‘āina, is in direct relation to Kamehameha and that makes it our business. So we urge you to proceed with what is necessary to do that is pono. That this project is to be restored and to be brought back into this community. One of its kind that can exist. I thank you very much and aloha. And may God bless the Kingdom. FUJISAKA: Aloha again. This journey started 65 years ago with those gentlemen you see up there. That was Tūtū Naluahine in the center, Kekahuna on the left, Theodore Kelsey on the right. As a 13-year old boy I walked with them through this site, measured all the heiaus. I am a lineal descendant of the Kahulamū, Kahinu, Ka‘ainoa. And Mr. Keliikuli, I’m familiar with all of these sites, these historical sites, kapu sites. Like Mr. Keliikuli said, I was told the same thing. As children growing up we were always reminded to respect hō‘ihi, the heiaus and their names, not only the heiaus, also their names. Do not move or remove the rocks. I first met Mr. Kekahuna, the gentleman up there on the left, in 1950. He was introduced to us as not Henry P. Kekahuna but as Kekahuna. As 13-year old boys, you know, “ke kahuna,” so we were afraid of him. But in time that changed. The next time I met Kekahuna is they went to see my grandaunt to get her permission for me to help them. My grandaunt said yes. So all the burden fell on her, not on me; if anything went wrong, it went to her, she would be responsible, not me. So the first heiau we measured was a heiau called Mākole‘ā. Now, you see all the pictures now, this wide open space, at one time it was like a jungle; you couldn’t see the ocean from the highway, it was all full of trees, brush. Even though Kekahuna had only one leg, he walked along on the rocks like a normal man. You couldn’t put your hand out to help him; he’ll hit you with his stick. Great respect was shown while we were doing all this work measuring the heiaus. We always opened it with the Christian prayer, which was prayed in Hawaiian. Kekahuna would do the prayer, Naluahine would chant, and work would begin. That’s how the Kekahuna Map came to be. I thank you very much. Oh, another thing. Modern measurements you take today is you pull it out. I just found this out about a month ago what this was. \[Secretary’s note: Mr. Fujisaka displayed a traditional measuring device.\] It’s called a link, measure link. It was increment of a foot. So if you look at the map, there 12 EXHIBIT B