Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 11, 1 November 2007 — Akaka wale hoʻi ka manaʻo i ka ʻā o ke ahi awakea [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Akaka wale hoʻi ka manaʻo i ka ʻā o ke ahi awakea

Aloha nui kākou. Kekahi mea hou: 1) OHA, owner ofWaimea Valley on O'ahu, announced the establishment of Hi'ilei Aloha LLC as the first step in preparation for OHA assuming the management of Waimea Valley. The spirit embodied in the name Hi'ilei Aloha is "to cairy, eaie for and nurture lovingly." Hi'ilei Aloha LLC sets forth a business structure enabling OHA to ensme that the spirit and legacy of Waimea Valley will inspire and prosper into peipetuity, for as the Februaiy 2007 KWO issue noted, Waimea is the "stunning and historic valley, considered to be 0"ahu's last intact ahupua'a"; 2) The OHA Board of Trustees appropriated nearly $6 million in funding to community initiatives throughout Hawai'i impacting education, housing, vocation and career training, youth service, and Hawaiian Homesteaders; and, 3) Kau Inoa enrollment neais 80,000, heading for 100,000. The spark that lit Kau Inoa registration on Januaiy 17, 2004, at Ali'iolani Hale continues to "ho'ā kākou i ka lama kūpono no nā hulu Hawai'i." Yet, for the miles and miles that we must go before we rest, it is the strength of spirit and mission that will sustain om collective efforts. On the opening day of the 2003 Legislature, OHA and the Native Hawaiian eommunity visibly demonstrated the polhieal will to advocate improved conditions for Native Hawaiians by employing strategic and effective approaches for impacting legislation, public policy and policy implementation. Wise counsel and historic actions of our kūpuna remind us to piepaie omselves, plan our steps, īemain focused on our shared objective, stay disciplined to our mission and always hold close our spiritual strength. Engaged in our 21st centuiy joumey for Hawaiian self-detennina-tion, we must piepaie, plan, focus, be

disciplined and īenew our spirit. Nā 'Ōiwi 'Ōlino has set forth the challenge to Native Hawaiians to stay the course, as people seeking wisdom, to nurture, grow and embolden our sphit. Although Hawaiian recognition legislation was first filed in Congress in 2000, it was OHA's 2003 maieh on the state Capitol, committed to the spirit of Nā 'Ōiwi 'Ōlino, that insphed verse one and chorus of our chant for the Hawaiian nation. Four additional verses have emerged over four years, anticipating passage of the Native Hawaiian Govemment Reorganization Act of 2007. Our oli is now complete. All five verses guide us, unified as Native Hawaiians in Hawai'i and elsewhere, who stand ready to create om Hawaiian nation. We īeaeh inside ourselves and embrace our ancestors for the strength, compassion, palienee and perseverance to one day adom the lei of victoiy woven by hands, individually and eollectively, resisting injustice by standing for righteousness. Nolaila; E ō e nā 'ōiwi 'ōlino 'eā, nā pulapula a Hāloa' eā Mai Hawai'i a Ni'ihau 'eā, a puni ke ao mālamalama 'eā ē. (Hui); Kū'ē au i ka hewa, kū'ē; kū au i ka pono, kū. Kū'ē au i ka hewa, kū'ē; kū au i ka pono, kū. Aloha e nā kūpuna kahiko 'ēa, nāna e ho'oulu mai nei 'eā Iā kākou e holo pono 'eā, a loa'a e ka lei lanakila 'eā ē. (Hui) E hana kākou me ke ahonui 'eā, a pili me ka hā a ke aloha 'eā 'Ōiai e kūlia i ka nu'u 'eā, a kau i ka 'iu o luna 'eā ē. (Hui) Ka'i mai e nā hoa kui lima 'eā, lei'ia i ka pua lehua 'eā Akaka wale ho'i ka mana'o 'eā, i ka 'ā o ke ahi awakea 'eā ē. (Hui) Welowelo e ka hae Hawai'i 'eā, i hō'ailona wehi no nā kini 'eā Ke Akua pū me kākou 'eā, i pono ke ea o ka 'āina 'eā ē. (Hui) He mele no nā 'ōiwi 'ōlino, kū. 36/48 ^

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Haunani Apoliona. MSW Chairpersūn, TrustEE, At-largE