More Response To "Grave Matters" - On Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`iʻs Future
Mahalo for sharing this video with us. It is so important for voices to be heard, especially to an immense part of who we are.
So much has been stolen from our graves for too long by archeologists and their bones displayed as trinkets for eyeballs to see the bareness of ones insignificance.
What's also seriously horrific is the jewelry belongs to the archeologist because we are too ignorant to fight for their ukana too.
Turtle shell combs, jewelry, things placed in the coffin by loved ones as they morned real tears, money thrown into the graves - all of which belongs to the archeologist and sold on ebay!...
That was a huge issue with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. And we were standing before these people that were outright stealing monies that didn't belong to them.
And changing the shameful definition of who is native Hawaiian which they say is 50% plus blood quantum.
How so very sad that the people of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs not only told us that we were insignificant to our faces, but to declare our people of Long Ago also insignificant is incomprehensible. So very sad.
But, the benefits of the new social hall being built at Kawaiaha`o Church will be phenomenal with their building on the very souls of our people's bones, just as the OHA people built their careers on newborns that are living under bushes on the side of the road. Pilau people!
Kaohi
Wai`anae, O`ahu
