2017-04-17 Public Testimony on SMA 16-063 Contested Case

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descendant, we practice a culture customary living today. And with all the, the structures that is going up in the fast world today, I would call that desecration. Hawai‘i Revised Statutes 711-1107, “Desecrate means defacing, damaging, polluting, or otherwise physical \[physically\] mistreating in a way that the applicant \[defendant\] knows will outrage the sensibility \[sensibilities\] of the people \[of persons\] and like to \[likely to\] observe or discover the applicant’s \[defendant’s\] action,” which that’s what we are doing today. The action of the applicant. There are corporate greed that they come and they build and they do all this kind of stuff to our island, and then they leave. ‘A‘ole hiki. That no can. Perfect example for KS. The lagoon is gone. There is a heiau under there. They noticed that later. I call that putting the cart before the horse. All the pūnāwai underneath there is another issue. The aquifer, once you puncture that thing, you’re going to desecrate and damage that. That aquifer comes from Mauna a Wakea that feeds the island. We have a lot of that in many different area, which your so-called archaeologist in science cannot detect, but we the people have them in our mo‘olelo-s. I suggest this archaeologist read those mo‘olelo-s because it’s going to give you the facts of all that. It’s going to tell you, and those mo‘olelo was done in the 1800’s. I cannot see what kind of study you’re doing on the face value. You need to go deeper than that. You need to go into the historical archives and go read those. And I know there’s a lot of people translate those. As far as the burial grounds, ‘a‘ole hiki. They never do a great analysis on it. I mahalo those archaeologists that took pride in their work, but they need to crawl, dig and look more. They need to really search the whole area. According to Uncle and everybody’s input, that the burial grounds are very significant to our people. The people go hand in hand with the land. And they take care of that, as well as the iwi-s that is put under that. I don’t want this to be another Hokuli‘a. They unearth with the bulldozer. All these bones, they shove them in a cabinets. To today it’s not buried back in the proper area once you damage that. The Kuakini Wall, that’s desecration already, defacing a historical site, and the shipment is documented. You guys need to wake up. Look at all the documents. That is proof to tell you that there is things there. And that’s why we’re here today. We’re going to defend our land and our people. And our kupuna who has passed that gave me the DNA to sit here and tell you about it. We do have it in dreams that some of the scientist world does not believe in to – they only believe in tangible things. But you need to look deeper into that. And I humbly ask you guys do your job right. Look at the mo‘olelo, look at the history, look at all that, and ask yourself, are you doing the right thing? Ask yourself. Thank you. Mahalo for your time. The public testimony ended at 11:11 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Noriko Sauer, Secretary Leeward Planning Commission 8 2017-04-17 Public Testimony on SMA 16-063 Contested Case