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land, is still home to many of us Hawaiians. We have no other home. We cannot go back
<br />anywhere else. This is it for us. So, for me, as a teacher of Ho`opono Pono Ke Ala, as a teacher
<br />of ho`oponopono, some of you may know, that our healing methods is about helping in the
<br />community as well as one-on-one, as well as sharing the Aloha Spirit, as well as promoting the
<br />oneness of aloha 16kahi, the love and unity. All that, which everyone in the world, wants to
<br />know more about, they come to our Islands. Yes, for the food. Yes, for the climate. Yes, for the
<br />beauty. Yes, for the music. Yes, for everything. But, there are also searching for our cultural
<br />roots. They want to know more about us and every one of us who come here from different
<br />lands, including different lands. And, you, who are here from generations before also, your
<br />alohas, our alohas, your mixture upon our land, becomes you also and your land, too.
<br />So, with that in mind, I, as a teacher, pass on these messages that we are all in the same canoe.
<br />All of us. And because of that, it is as well, your concern as well as it is mine, as well as it is that
<br />Hawaiian Sanctuary, to bring back as much as they can also with the help of some of us
<br />Hawaiians who are still here. We can still help to promote the kiakahi, the purpose; the aloha,
<br />the love. It is all about the healing, and I am so, so maika`i, so pono in excellence, that we have
<br />a place here, in Pahoa. In Pahoa, home of the Daggers, if you will! And, I say that lovingly.
<br />Okay? But, these are the things that not only teaches all of us who are residents of Moku [o]
<br />Keawe, of this beautiful Island, but that others who come here, too, can be supported. Can be
<br />supported. Can know about us. Can know about the food, the growing, the teachings. All of it.
<br />And, this is happening through our Hawaiian Sanctuary.
<br />And, yes, yes, I approve of it. And, yes, I am so grateful to each one of you here, sitting here,
<br />who I'm sure see the same light as I do, and I'm so thankful that you're taking a position that
<br />few of us would want to do—but you are serving the community in such an aloha way.
<br />Mahalo. Thank you so much.
<br />STEPHANY: Aloha kakahiaka. Good morning, everyone. My name is Ehulani Stephany, and I
<br />am a kumu hula, and I've been teaching about 26 years now, and I've been at the Hawaiian
<br />Sanctuary about maybe six years or so, and I'm so grateful because I go there, and I teach hula
<br />which is hula kahiko, the traditional hula. And, Terra Ann met me, and she didn't want to charge
<br />me for using the facilities, you know, her large building. I go there once a week, and we stay
<br />there from 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock at night. We start with the children and then with the adults.
<br />And, she said she wants to give back to the `aina, to our land, and to our culture, to help it to
<br />grow, to continue to grow. And, in exchange, all she asked is whenever she has guests, if they
<br />are able to come to my classes and join the classes so they can learn about our culture and about
<br />our hula and about our love and aloha, and I'm so, so grateful to the Hawaiian Santuary, Terra
<br />Ann and Steve. And, I totally support them and the Hawaiian Sanctuary and all the goodness
<br />that they're doing for our land and our people. Mahalo.
<br />HEAUKULANL Mahalo.
<br />ELLIS: Thank you. Good morning, Commissioners.
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