Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 6, 1 June 2001 — KA LEO KAIĀULU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KA LEO KAIĀULU

that good Hawaiians like Hao and Trask were not re-elected. As someone who is not Hawaiian but Japanese, I regret that I went along with Heen and voted for Waihe'e. When I read his OHA article, I am not surprised that he cannot impact the OHA board and instead wants to drink beer at work. That's what you do at bars, not when you are an elected OHA trustee. Regretfully signed, Mits Watanabe Honolulu I mua Lei Dei: May Day, May 1, 2001, a time of antiquated antiquity fore-

closed was a pageantry of the hospitality of the gigantic Hawaiian as Captain James Cook praised in 1778: "tall, handsome, intelligent." Today, undismayed 223 years by the miscellaneous malihinis and occasional white trash, the Hawaiian is remarkably himself, hospitable with a veneer of aloha tourism yet preposterous, up and down in a wave, in a segregated 'āina constitutionally acknowledged sovereignty of the ancient Kingdom of Hawai'i; further, constitutionally restored to all Hawaiians of all and any quantum of Hawaiian blood as the Brown case of May 17, 1954, Supreme Court, unanimously by Chief Justice Earl Warren. "I mua"

is the eeho of Kamehameha the Great on this Lei day 2001 Arthur K. Trask Sr. īau'ai Cleveland vs. McKinley I do not understand why we have a high school named after President McKinley - the man who approved the annexation of the overthrown Hawaiian Kingdom - instead of naming it for President Cleveland, who was good and honest enough to state that it was wrong. Nancy Bey Little Makiki

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