Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 7, 1 July 1997 — PILIALOHA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Jt : Jl' Mahalo nui loa to the students ofNa Pua No'eau Project Ho'omau/Kupulau, an educational program encouraging students to appreciate, respect and preserve the pono ofHawai'i's natural marine environment,for contributing their poems, stories and artwork to this month's issue ofKa Wai Ola.

'U8 Hawaiian Children// Us Hawaiian children learning the history of our land and future in our hands Us Hawaiian children inherit the problems of our land and the disasters that are at hand Us Hawaiian children learning to fix our native land try to keep it in our hands But we need some kind of plan The govemment apologized for locking our Queen up and telling us lies But still, they take the land and , sell it to people of foreign sands Us Hawaiian children left with the left-overs Us Hawaiian children trying to keep our culture from going out with the tide 1 But how ean we conceive a ( universe so wide And why must we try? Oh, please tell me why? \ by Liana Ortega I Class of 2000, Wai'anae High School

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