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Aloha Aina!
Transformation always begins in our hearts and our minds, moving and creating a greater vision and path forward for Pono (righteous) action!!! Let us stand in Aloha with One Heart, One Mind and for One Ocean and One Planet
…let us make this our path and purpose.
E Lu’u mai — Come Ride the Swell and Dive in with us in cultivating a beautiful, just, abundant and healthy Planet and World!!!
MAUKA
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Kanaeokana
2019
What we’re standing for is to protect the Earth. We’re not against science.
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Column: Science should honor the answer: ‘No’
November 28, 2021
The recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s (Astro2020) prioritizes U.S. funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope — with its contentious preferred site on Mauna Kea — continuing America’s legacy of colonialism and oppression of indigenous kanaka maoli.
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Maunakea Admin Rules
November 6, 2019
Kealoha Pisciotta Testifies On Maunakea Admin Rules
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Ka Lāhui Hawai’i—the Hawaiian Nation
August 20, 2021
Produced and directed by Healani Sonoda-Pale. Cinematography by Laura Ullman.
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Native Hawaiians to Deb Haaland: 'We're not Native Americans'
April 12, 2021
By Anne Keala Kelly
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Mauna Kea Aelike (Consensus Building Ohana sends clear message to Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland.) Letter
March 15, 2021
Letter to Deb Haaland
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Mauna Kea Aelike (Consensus Building Ohana sends clear message to Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland.) Press Release
March 16, 2021
Press Release
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Mauna Kea in Law Review by David Forman
Originally published by the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review, vol. 43, pages 341-419 (2021)
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Will Mauna Kea protests save a sacred summit?
July 31, 2019
Native Hawaiian activists say state’s business interests favored over indigenous rights to sacred lands.
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Kapu Aloha
September 11, 2019
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Mauna Kea protectors holds press conference
July 18, 2019
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Mauna Kea goes to the United Nations
March 22, 2019
This request is submitted by Cultural Survival on behalf of the Indigenous People of Hawai‘i Island. The request details the discrimination that Native Hawaiians have faced due to the support from the State of Hawai‘i and the United States of America for a major development project on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the Pacific and a sacred place for Native Hawaiians.
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United Nations Respond
May 10, 2019
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Mauna Kea Hui Makes Plea to TMT Partners in the Bay Area
January 31, 2019
Native Hawaiian leaders opposing construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea are taking their grievances beyond the shores of Hawaii to TMT decision-makers and a financier in the Bay Area. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has more.
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TMT Case: Final Argument
September 20, 2017
TMT Case: Kealoha Pisciotta Final Argument
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It is time to Aloha Mauna Kea | Intercontinental Cry
June 13, 2014
Open letter to Mr. Gordon Moore, Co-founder of the Intel Corporation
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Science, Culture Clash Over Sacred Mountain
March 18, 2001
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Principles of Kapu Aloha
The following are some principles. This is a working document. They are listed randomly and not in order of importance.
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Mauna Kea, kuahiwi kuhao i ka malie
2010
For 15 years, advocates for Mauna Kea have kept bulldozers off the summit of this sacred mountain.
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MAKAI
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Kai Palaoa
Kai Palaoa is a native Hawaiian family company and a social enterprise dedicated to promoting the health, well being and survival of our oceans and all life. Our family and Hanai (extended family) are Hawaiian Practitioners *, artists, grass roots activists, inventors, scientists, advocates, surfers, divers, fishers, educators and entrepreneurs who believe change in the world is possible and who dedicate themselves and their work to promote a more beautiful, clean, healthful, sustainable and just world for our future generations.
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Deep Seabed Mining Coalition Sends Letter to President Biden Urging a Moratorium on Dangerous Mining
December 21, 2021
A coalition of conservationists, Indigenous rights advocates, marine scientists, and political leaders highlight damaging potential impacts of deep seabed mining on Pacific communities and islands.
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Establishment of Time-Area Closures for Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins
December 16, 2021
Establishment of Time-Area Closures for Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 86 FR 53844, NOAA–NMFS–2021–0091
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Pacific Guardianship – The Role of Indigenous Systems and Governances
August 19, 2021
Rev. James Bhagwan moderates our Pacific Blue Line panel with Kealoha Pisciotta from Protect Mauna Kea Movement in Hawaii, Hilda Lini of the Melanesian Institute in Vanuatu, and Colin Philp in Fiji, president of traditional voyaging society, Uto Ni Yalo Trust Fund.
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Ola I Ke Au a Kanaloa: The Human and Cetacean Connection and Why It Matters
September 20, 2017
Kealoha Pisciotta is a Traditional Knowledge Keeper and Cultural Practitioner. She will be sharing about some of the challenges that Native Hawaiian Practitioners have met with Government and NOAA authorities, in their attempts to maintain the historical and cultural relationships with Kanaloa (Cetaceans) and present a peaceful path forward.
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Kai Palaoa and Kia’i Kanaloa address Feds Re: Sacred Relationship with Whales, Dolphins and other Ocean lifeforms.
March 31, 2021
Subject: Request to Convene Roundtable Discussions between our Kiaʻi Kanaloa and Hawaiʻi Congressional Delegation to Address and Resolve the Adverse Impacts to Kānaka Maoli in the Implementation and Enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act which has been used Unjustly as a Punitive Tool to Criminalize Native Hawaiian Traditional and Religious Kanaloa Practitioners
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5 Whales Dead After Mass Stranding on Maui Beach
August 29, 2019
Associated Press story: Five whales died, including four that were euthanized, after a mass stranding Thursday on a beach on the Hawaii island of Maui.
Ten melon-headed whales were found stranded alive early in the morning on Sugar Beach in the coastal resort community of Kihei.
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Native Hawaiians Face Federal Charges for Sea Burial of Whale How two Native Hawaiian Women struggle to keep their ancient and sacred relationship with Whales alive but face federal charges in doing so.
August 26, 2016
Two Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and an organization dedicated to protecting marine animals are facing federal charges from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a possible $27,000 fine for allegedly violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
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Activists Push for Hawaii National Monument Expansion After Public Meetings
August 4, 2016
Native Hawaiians, marine scientists, conservationists, and the commercial longline fishing industry have been speaking out about U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz’s (D-HI) proposal to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Sensing Empire at Sea: SONAR, Kanaloa and Indigenous Marine Sovereignty
June 2021
Political ecologies of empire and toxic warfare move beyond confined state boundaries and take us into the fluid depths of the sea. This paper discusses how Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationships to Kanaloa as a deity of the sea interrupt the U.S. empire marine military assemblage and technocratic, machinic way of relating to the sea.
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KIAʻI MOANANUIAKEA
Aloha to my Kupuna and Kumu
While I am a primary source of the ʻike contained herein, none of it would be possible however without the ‘ike of my Kupuna and Kumu. I wish to acknowledge their unwavering love and teachings; they are the origin of my House of Knowledge and Learning.