terça-feira, agosto 03, 2004

Hawaiian groups decry the Bishop Museum's new "native" status

Aia ka pilikia ma ka hale hō'ike'ike o Kamehameha ('o Bishop). Ua 'āpono 'ia ka interim guidance a he hui 'ōiwi nō ia hale hō'ike'ike i ka mana'o o NATIVE AMERICA GRAVES PROTECTION and REPATRIATION ACT of 1990 (NAGPRA). 'A'ole 'ae nā kānaka a pau i kēia akā na'e e ho'olohe i nā nīnau ka hale hō'ike'ike i kēia kumuhana mai ka po'e o Hawai'i.

Ua ho'okumu 'ia ka hale hō'ike'ike e Charles Reed Bishop, ke kāne o Princess Bernice Pauahi i ka makahiki o 1889. Ma loko o ia hale, nā mea a Pauahi, Princess Luka Ke'elikōlani, Ka mō'ī wahine Emma me Lili'uokalani. He kuene ia hale no nā hanauna e hiki ai.

Ma ke aikikala, ha'i a'ela 'o Bill Brown, ka luna o ka hale hō'ike'ike, 'a'ole maopopo 'ia inā he moepū a i 'ole he mea i kau 'ia ai no ka hūnā 'ana o nā mikionele. I kona mana'o iho, he kuleana nō ho'i ko lākou e kūkā i nā hui a pau no ka ho'i hou o nā 'iwi kūpuna e pili ana i nā mea e ho'i hou ai. Ha'i a'ela 'o Brown i ka wā ma mua (50 makahiki) 'a'ole pilikia no ka 'ike 'ana aia nā 'iwi ma loko o ia hale hō'ike'ike.

He fucking stupid ho'i 'o ia! So what, i ka wā ma mua, 'ae, he ao 'oko'a akā na'e 'a'ole i kēia lā! Nui nā kānaka e kū'ē no ka mea he akamai nō!

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