MORE RESPONSE TO "TALKING TRASH"

As a native Hawaiian I want to extend an apology to the Yakama people for what the belligerent occupying United States government in Hawai`i is proposing to do with Hawai`i's trash.

Most landfills in Hawai`i are located in communities where the majority population is native Hawaiian. These landfills are currently over capacity.

Rather than create additional landfills in primarily caucasian neighborhoods, the occupying government prefers to waste scarce funds to send Hawai`i's waste to others' lands, in this case the Yakama people's lands.

A native Hawaiian would never consider such an alternative and we send our prayers that the Yakama people will prevail in protecting their lands from Hawai`i's garbage.

Sincerely,

Isaac Harp
A Descendant of Kuakahela O Moku O Keawe

HAWAIIANS RESPOND TO "TALKING TRASH"

To the Council of Elders and All First-People of Yakama of Turtle Island -

My name is Foster Ampong from the Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific. I am writing to extend my sincere apology to the Yakama people of Turtle Island for the attempt by the Hawaii State Government to dump Hawai`i's trash thousands of miles away on someone elses' lands.

Like myself, many native Hawaiians throughout these islands and abroad are not only embarrassed, we are greatly offended by this insulting and perverse behavior by officials of the state of Hawai`i.

For the sake of clarity, I would like to take this time to point out a few important facts.

The officials of the state of Hawai`i and those working, be they elected/appointed/hired are not representative of the first people of these Hawai`i Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

They are in fact official representatives of an occupying government on lands of an independently Sovereign, foreign country to the United States of America.

E kala mai i na tupuna i hala i na tupuna i`ola na po`e o ka `aina o Yakama. (My most sincere and deepest apology to your elders of the past and of the living and all the first people of the lands of Yakama).

Foster Ampong
Waiehu Kou, Maui