Communication No. 2019-10- NKCDP RR Trail Plans

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More signs indicated that Kamehameha was heading for greatness. Some chiefs clung to him, eager to profit from his ascent. Others were planning his defeat. Kalani'opu'u reiterated his wish that, upon his death, his son Kiwalao would rule. His nephew Kamehameha, he said, should look after the war god Kuka'ilimoku. Kamehameha responded by breaking a powerful kapu. After the conquest of the rebelling chief'Imakakoloa in Puna, protocol required that Kiwala'o lead the sacrificial ceremonies. Instead, Kamehameha snagged the chief's body to offer it to Ku. The aged Kalani'opu'u understood that he could not stop his nephew. He ordered Kamehameha to prepare: "Return to your birthplace and take care of the chiefs and the commoners."" Kamehameha stayed for two years and he lived at Halawa during five separate periods of his life 26. He tended taro patches, planted noni trees, and encouraged his people to share in the work. These were happy, abundant times for Halawa and Kamehameha's people became faithful, self-confident, and strong. Kamehameha became the leader of Hawaii Island after a series of battles. While Kamehameha was living at Halawa, Kekuhaupi'o came to bring the news of Kalani'opu'u's death and thus of an imminent war. Kamehameha fought with Kiwala'o and won. Between battles to subdue the island's chiefs to his reign, Kamehameha returned to his Kohala lands to continue agriculture. When Kamehameha was not in Halawa, the warriors of Kahekili, the chief of Maui, plundered his beloved Halawa lands and oppressed his people. Kamehameha and Kekuhaupi'o then returned and defeated Kahekili in the Battle of Hapu'u, which lasted two days. Then they rested in Halawa before unifying the Hawaiian Island. Halawa was once was one of Kohala's most prominent lands. King Kamehameha spent his early childhood years in this fertile land. He enjoyed the bountiful land, and was known to surf Kapanaia and tend to his taro farms. At that time, Halawa was densely populated. It had a promising chief and an abundance of food. At the first missionary census in 1835, Halawa's residents numbered 214. As time moved forward, Halawa became home to a Catholic settlement under the leadership of Saint (Father) Damien de Veuster. Fields ideal for sugar cane attracted Kohala's second sugar mill, drawing both the creme de la creme of Hawaii's haole socialites and dozens of impoverished Chinese immigrants, the first ethnic group of the laborers in Hawai'i. Today, Halawa slumbers quietly through the changes in Kohala, its legendary and colorful past largely forgotten except for the stories. In addition to Halawa, there are numerous areas that showcase the activity of Kamehameha while he was living in Kohala, including at the lands surrounding Kapanaia Bay. Within the land there is evidence of the earliest culture of Hawaiian settlement, including Kapalama Heiau, a canoe haul road build by Kamehameha, and nineteen other sites, spanning prehistoric to historic. Kapalama heiau is on Kaheo Point and at the time of the Mahele, there were ten Land Court Award claims by nine claimants that were granted to these parcels, all located within the ahupua'a of A'amakao. The Hawaiian Railroad also traversed this area, with physical remnants of the railroad trestle footings found across the stream. The 25 ibid 26 Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Mission Houses Museum. 11