Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 11, 1 November 1990 — Oʻahu residency candidates [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
Oʻahu residency candidates
Clarence F. T. Ching Community activities: Hui Hanai, Life of the Land, Initiative Committee Hawaii, Legal Aid Society, Native Hawaiian Legal Corp., Nuuanu/Punchbowl Neighborhood Board No.12, Pauoa Community Association, Hawaii's Thousand Friends. continued page 13
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O'ahu residency candidates
Education: Kamehameha Schools; B.S. (c hemistry/zoology ) BYU; J.D. (law) University of Idaho. Vocations: attorney; scientist; stockbroker; businessman; preservationist; filmmaker; writer.
The priority issues facing OHA and Hawanans in the next five years include housing, health, education, self-determination and self-govern-ment, single definition, DHHL. An integrated, really affordable housing program would include: 1. Land — DHHLapplicantsawardedimproved lots. For others — ability to purchase reasonably priced lots. Planned communities. Borrow developers'/government heavy equipment when available. 2. Building materials — Develop primary lumber sources. Acquire delivery systems. Develop alternative building materials including stone. Outlets on non-profit basis. 3. Money — Revolving loan funds. 4. Self-help concept — Develop uniform building plans. On-site programs for DHHL. Classroom and on-the-job training (including maintenance) for all. Obtain marketable skills. 5. Energy — Alternative energy sources and devices. 6. Elderly housing — Located near Hawaiian communities with convenient transportation, food, medical, dental and other services. 7. Hawaiian Job Corps — To assist in all phases of housing, especially elderly housing. Obtain marketable skills. 1 believe that OHA, through quality trustee leadership, is the best mechanism available to achieve our utmost Hawaiian destiny. OHA's progress in its first decade proves that the Hawaiian community ean work together towards its eommon goals. A conscientious, up-to-date Hawaiian eommunity is OHA's base. As resources materialize, OHA trustees must find the best formula to meet the prioritized needs of all Hawaiians. An ideal OHA trustee should have qualities and skills that encompass: 1. Law: I am a law school graduate and attorney for 14 years. 2. Business and finance: 1 have 38 semester hours toward an MBA degree; have had a law office for 14 years, a collection agency for five years, been a stockbroker for three years and practiced business law. 3. Hawaiian culture: 1 support Hawaiian language, music and dance, have protected Hawaiian sites (I had Kaniakapupu and Kawa'ewa'e Heiau placed on State Register as founder/chair of Malama Kaniakapupu); I have protected Hawaiian flora and fauna (I founded Uluhaimalama Native Hawaiian Plant Society and sponsored bills to outlaw drift gillnets); I have helped protect Hawaiian birds and forests; I created "The 'Aina Remains," a video of the recreated Uluhaimalama planting ceremony and have been co-host of KCCN 'Ohana Show for 10 years as well as our family genealogist. 4. Education: 1 hold a doctorate level degree and 16 semester hours toward a teaching certificate; 1 was also a USAF tactical instructor and swimming instructor. 5. Government: I have testified at numerous county, state and federal hearings; led the state initiative movement; was a Charter Action Committee chair (opposed proposed 1978 Honolulu Cilty Charter amendments); and initiated numerous state bills (including the Kuleana Escheat Law). 6. OHA: I have been trustee for four years;
Operations and Development committee chair; a member of all standing committees and most ad hoe committees; established the Status and Entitlements committee; and have the best attendance at all OHA meetings. My education, training and experience provide excellent tools for making the pivotal decisions impacting OHA's substantial future with tens of millions of dollars of present and future resources, carrying Hawaiians to our utmost destiny. Re-elect Clarence Ching. Clayton Hee
I am seeking the privilege of serving you as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs T rustee from the island of O'ahu. I have dedicated my professional life to public service; most recently, as a member and chairman of the
State Senate Judiciary Committee, serving Hawai'i from 1984 to 1988. As a senator, one of my proudest achievements was to finally set into law the "Hawaiian Right to Sue" legislation whieh now establishes the right of all Hawaiians and Hawaiian organizations to seek legal redress and remedy for past wrongs to Hawaiian people. One of the best examples of said wrongs 1 believe is the Hawaiian Home Lands program, where many of our people have died on the waiting list. With the "Hawaiian Right to Sue" law we will not be able to seek that right through the judicial process. I ought to know, for I have been on the waiting list for 16 years. The irony, of course, is that at one fime, all of Hawai'i belonged to our people. 1 also served as a member of the House of Representatives serving the islands of Moloka'i, Maui and Lana'i from 1982 until 1984. As the vicechairman of the House Education Committee in 1983 and 1984, 1 helped to shape and establish the highly successful Punana Leo program, a Hawaiian language "immersion" pre-school program where our youngsters leam and communicate entirely in 'our mother tongue,' the Hawaiian lan-
guage. With a growing enrollment and waiting list Punana Leo is without question, one of the most successful education programs ever established for our people. As a former school teacher I taught the Hawaiian language to every public school student on Moloka'i from grades kindergarten through seven in 1981. I also taught Hawaiian language in the Maui Community College Extension program, at Windward School for Adults at the Kalaheo High School Campus, and at the summer Kamehameha Schools Explorations Program. I firmly believe that the life of our people is grounded in our native language. This belief was established when I was a young child. Both my grandparents spoke Hawaiian to us and my education at the Kamehameha Schools where I served as the student body president in 1970 - 1971 encouraged us never to forget our past. In 1991 the most important issue we will face is how to utilize those resources whieh, by a law established while I was a senator, will be paid to OHA. These resources whieh are estimated to be $100 million will assist us in areas such as housing, education, health and the preservation of our past. I will commit myself to the utilization of these resources through the establishment of an eeonomie development policy within OHA whieh will help us make the best decisions on revenue raising to continue and set forth a path toward these important issues. I humbly ask for your vote to continue to serve you. Mahalo. Josiah Hoohuli
My four major eampaign issues are native Hawaiian rights, lands, health and education: In the area of native Hawaiian rights, I would like to develop concise and clear policies defining the rights of natives to utilize the natural re-
sources of our lands; and to lay claims to mineral contitued page 14
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O'ahu residency candidates rights anei the use of our waters. I will work very hard to have OHA include Hawaiian Home Lands into its budget; assisting with infrastructure, housing as well as with eeonomie development. Consequently, as Eeonomie Development Chairman for the State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations, 1 have been meeting with other homesteaders throughout the State in creating a proposal for more state and federal funding or grants. Concerning ceded lands, the settlement between the State and OHA was not a big plus for native Hawaiians mainly because the beneficiaries should receive at least 50% of all proceeds and revenues from these lands and not just 20%, whieh was the agreed amount. In the area of health, I recommend that native Hawaiians be given 100% free medical coverage especially since statistics show that native Hawaiians have the highest rates of health problems among ethnic groups in the State. With education, I am committed to having OHA provide 100% funding to native Hawaiians who would like to pursue their education. Because the statistics also prove that native Hawaiians are the least educated ethnic group in the State, 1 feel very strongly about providing funds for Hawaiians to educate themselves in the highest standards possible. Within five (5) years, the crucial issue facing native Hawaiians will be whether or not OHA has the ability to manage and administer the assets and funds of the native Hawaiians and their beneficiaries. That is why the election of eaeh trustee is important. I feel well prepared to represent the concems of the Hawaiian people as an O'ahu Trustee for OHA. The Friends of Black Hoohuli headquarters is located at 89-639 Nanakuli Ave., Ph. 668-2833. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Leia Hubbard
The era of Hawaiian nride as epitomized in our Hawaiian nation has oegun. All the hurts and wrongs to us have given us the strength to fight ' or our Hawaiian rights, £or our Hawaiian nation. To achieve our Hawaiian nation and to
assert our rights, the major issuesfor Hawaiians in the next five years, our goals need to be clearly understood. As a symbol of pride and unity, our ;ocal and nahonal leaders ean help us establish our Hawaiian Cultural Center at Bellows Field. Practically, the cottages there will house 500 of our iomeless Hawaiians until homes ean be built for them, homes that will mean stability for our Hawaiian families. With ideas from you, OHA ean develop viable uses for land: elderly housing where our kupuna ean laugh and talk in gorgeous surroundings, soothed by the oeean whispers; a culinary arts school; office building; guest cottages for neighbor island families on O'ahu for medical services and visiting native dignitaries. Equally important, OHA must lead in the upgrading of education in Hawai'i in the public school svstem with emphasis on sensitivity to Hawaiian culture and values and the fulfillment of the needs of kanaka maoli as well as an inclusion of vocational and business training at the Kamehameha Schools on O'ahu and magnet satellites for our Hawaiian children on all islands. Summer schools should include programs
where our children ean gain pride in their culture and arts as well as programs where they ean eam and leam in businesses whieh they create and operate. OHA must develop a strong eeonomie base for our nation, fostering business and industry. OHA should enlist the support of Hawaiian business experts to hone business aeumen. Critical to the formation of our government is that the model be one from Hawaiians. OHA should fund presentations of the variouS Hawaiian sovereignty groups and invite other native peoples to share their ideas. Ultimately, our Hawaiian Congress will write our Hawaiian Constitution. Hawaiians are thoroughly qualified to control our assets and our destiny. As your OHA trustee 1 will use all of my experience to serve you: Education: St. Andrew's Priory, where 1 was on scholarship, member of the National Honor Society, class president in 1954, and songleader in 1955; University of Hawaii majoring in history and political science; San Diego State College, B.A. in history and general secondary credential in English. Work experience: librarian in San Diego and Halawa High Security Facility; teacher; project developer; owner of several businesses, co-producer of Grassroots Radio Report. Activities: lobbyist for Hawaiian rights via testimony against detrimental legislation, letters to the mcdia and politicians, calls locally and to Washington, D.C.; member of Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Ka Pakaukau, Ka Lahui Hawai'i and the Aloha 'Aina Action Congress whieh works to preserve our 'aina. Most of all, I will use your ideas and suggestions to guide me. 1 care. I dare. Enoeh N. Kaina ("Enoka")
Welina Ke Aloha! 1 am running for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs because I strongly believe in OHA. OHA is for every Hawaiian. OHA represents the future and hope for us. Let us forge a new relationship among the
individual, the 'ohana and the lahui whieh ean better illuminate and fulfill the promises of OHA. I see OHA as the kino (body), the Trustees as the na'au, and us, ka po'e as the ha (breath) of life for that body. We must look for responsible leadership; but when we have chosen that leadership we ought not to forget our own responsibility of supporting that leadership. 1 believe that onee we fully under stand our responsibility of being the breath, the ha, we ean begm to heal ourselves, our 'ohana, and our people. When the lahui is healed, the 'aina is mueh more blessed in revealing all of its mana for man's benefit. I want to be a part of that process by being part of the na'au whose body ean better serve the people. My professional career included poliee work, social work, real estate and health. I graduated from the Kamehameha Schools, class of 1960. After being wounded in the line of duty while on the poliee force, I earned degrees in social work from Brigham Young University and law from the University of Hawaii School of Law. My legislative experience includes serving in Washington, D.C. as a legislative aide to a U.S. Congressman. 1 am an educator in the culture and arts. I have studied and am presently licensed to practice the art of lomilomi. Throughout my professional and personal life, the one value I have held closest to my heart has been my Hawaiianess; values of wellbeing in the physical, emohonal, mental and spiritual contexts being next. Based on these values, 1 have chosen to dedicate my skills to healing. 1 believe that to fully contribute to one's eommunity, one should seek to be healthy in body, mind, heart and spirit. continued page 15
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O'ahu residency candidates Although the yesterdays are gone, we find ourselves in a new and different world. The mind and the heart of yesterday and of today are one and the same. I believe in myself. I believe in my abilities. I believe that I ean help in engendering the healing spirit to make the kino, the na'au and the ha a strong force for us in the community. I ean offer my vision and experiences of both worlds. Let us heal the nation. E ho'ola i ka lahui Hawai'i! Kunani Nihipali Native Riqhts throuqh Sovereiqntv
People have held key positions in government and policy-making that directly affect the welfare of our Hawaiian people and their 'aina . . . our land and its resources. It is the 'aina that has provided us not only with a plaee to stand
on, but has given us food, sheher and meelieine. ActuaDy it is the 'aina that has created a unique culture and race . . . The Hawaiians . . . E Hawai'i Au! The Hawaiian people have been the victim of a less obvious form of prejudice . . . cultural racism. Its most obvious form is the assumption that the ha'ole culture, lifestyles and values are superior and normal whieh makes ours exotic, disposable and abnormal. For centuries the native peoples were no more than footnotes and irrelevant to American history. Except for a few pages on American history, unwritten history of native peoples are not even worth studying. Somehow non-Hawaiians tend to think that the native people^' history ended with their "discovery" and that we get classified according to their periods of history. Our centuries-long clash has created enduring stereotypes that have translated into racist policies and attitudes, often with the assumption that we have nothing to offer mainstream American history. The fact is, the continuity of our culture is more important than the change. Beginning with Pele, the Hawaiian people eontinue to exist today as they have for thousands of years. We are a reflection of our history and events. We are continuing the dreams that our kupuna before have inspired us with. Ho'opono! We must first recognize our inherent native Hawaiian rights. We must practice those rights . . dailv. The rights to our resources, the rights to practice our culture, the rights to be consulted, the rights to live, breath and die with the inspirations of our kupuna . . . from birth to make! A feeling, that just to be Hawaiian is inspirational and feels good. A right that onee was so natural . . . a right that we would never doubt our race again! We have realized that society is iike the finest mats of makaloa that reflects a lokahi, a bringing together. a blending of mana. the life source of ka po'e Hawai'i. We Hawaiians must create positive and real changes. Huli'au! Real change cannot eome from int< llectual or academic exercises nor out of a barrel of agun. Governmentalactionisparamount in creating these changes to create the facilities and environment for maintaining our Hawaiian eultural practices. Conformity is not equality . . . being different is. We don't have an illusion that we ean return to the past, but do believe that with realistic adjustments, we ean return our cultural ways and still have the eeonomie benefits we obviously need. Our Hawaiian people have suffered the most. Their health, social and eeonomie statistics prove that. Our culture has been threatened and adulterated and our sacred sites have been left to
ruin and intruded upon with development. In short, the spiritual health of the Hawaiian people has declined detrimentally. Hawai'i would be better off as a sovereign nation onee again. Nothing less would suffice. Ku Kanaka! Charles Y. Tanouye, Jr.
Education: Maryknoll, Waiahole and Kahaluu E!ementary Schools, Castle High School, Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawai'i. Military service: U.S. Army 1973-1976, Vietnam era veteran,
Hawai i Nahonal Guard 1977-78 Army, presently active, Hawai'i Nahonal Guard Army 29th infantry brigade headquarters company. Honors/awards: AAU second plaee boxing award, U.S. Army Nahonal Defense medal, Korea service ribbon, first Native Hawaiian parachutist in Korea to win first, second and third plaee medals. Community service: 1964 — volunteer for American Cancer Society, 1988 — volunteer assistant instructor for Ironworkers Union at Honolulu Community College welding shop. Work experience: newspaper boy, service station attendant, security guard, U.S. Army, Dillingham Shipyard iaborer, sandblaster, diver, welder I, assistant foreman, welding shop union steward, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard assistant sandblasting instructor; 1984 — present: farmer, construction contractor, Ironworkers Union, Welder I; P&C Hauling and Services, dump truck hauling, excavation, heavy equipment operator, yard maintenance. I'm committed and determined to improve and advance the native Hawaiians' present and future lifestyle, without compromising our cu!tural integrity. We as Hawaiians now have the resources and opportunity through OHA to achieve our goals. Education and training for adults as well as our children to ensure a secure future cannot be neglected. Community child care centers for our working Hawaiians, financial and medical assistance to accommodate our growing communities, and the special needs of our elders are all priorities that ean no longer be neglected. Our young people
who have been seduced and possessed by aleohol and drugs, must be salvaged and restored to us, through our own spiritual science. Affordable homes and home financing assistance for native Hawaiians and our children are long overdue. I'm committed to the Homestead infrastructure. The homestead community needs — financing through home-land equity, roads and road improvements, sidewalks and utilities — are way overdue and must be addressed now! As a native son of the 'Aina, it would be an honor to serve all native Hawaiians. I have the experienee, the knowledge, and the heart to accomplish our goals. I need your kokua. On Nov. 6, 1990, please vote, and vote for me, Charles Y. Tanouye. To help its readers know where candidates stand on Hawaiian and other issues, Ka Wai Ola O OHA invited all candidates in federal and state races to submit a 500-word statement to voterson any issue of their ehoiee, and to address two questions: "What do you think is the most important issue facing Native Hawaiians and OHA In the tant issue facing Native Hawaiians and OHA in the next five years?" And "What steps would you take, or what course would you follow to address that issue?" All candidates received follow-up calls toensure their opportunity to participate in this election issue. Mahalo to candidates who were able to submit their statements. Opinions expressed are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opiniop of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs or its Board of Trustees. Due to laek of space, Ka Wai Ola was unable to run statements from candidate for county and Board of Education races. Statements of OHA, federal and state candidate