Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 10, 1 October 2005 — Pauahi's lands [ARTICLE]

Pauahi's lands

The reason to give preference to Hawaiian children entering Kamehameha Schools relies on

the early practice of the Hawaiian managers (konohiki) when they carried out their responsibility to the people of the land in seeing that they were provided for in the traditional manner and that their needs were met. The lands given by several chiefs (konohiki) to Pauahi Bishop to help build Kamehameha Schools was done under their own government before the 1893 intervention and armed invasion of Hawai'i, whieh ended in the annexing and colonizing of Hawai'i against the wishes of the 38,000 Kū'ē petitioners of 1897. The Kamehameha lands and accompanying ineome should be used to educate those identified as the inhabitant tenants' present descendent children, who now possess the earned vested interest in all the lands of Hawai'i as declared in the 1848 Māhele. That is why Hawaiian children are attending Kamehameha Schools today: in effect the schools provide access to education for descendent children as in a private estate. BuzzyAgard Honolulu, O'ahu