Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 10, 1 October 2006 — NEWTON HARBOTTLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWTON HARBOTTLE

Iam Newton deTray Harbottle, 63 years old; Hawaiian, Japanese,

French male; born and raised in Waikīkī; Kālia. As a youth, my late dad was sent to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to colonize Necker Island. He retired from the HFD as a Battalion Chief. Mother was owner and director of four preschools. My late brothers were Isaac Ke'epo'okalani and Myron Kalākaua. My only sister is Tiona Nadine Wailehua. King Kalākaua had grandpa, Isaac Hakuole Harbottle Sr., 12 years old, and his brother Unele Jimmy, 11 years old - both from Kīpahulu, Maui - sent to Japan. They were educated with the imperial children of Japan. One of his classmates was His Impeiial Emperor Hirohito. When cholera broke out in Japan, the "Hawaiian students" were kept in the mountains during that period of time; one brother received cigarettes, but not the other. As a Kamehameha School graduate and a student of the University of Hawai'i along with Chaminade College, I joined the Honolulu Poliee Department in 1967 was promoted to sergeant and assigned to a special plain-clothes unit known as the Task Unit. While serving with that unit I assisted in the training of S.W.A.T, K-9 units and explosive ordnance units. That detail also provided for all dignitary protection; security for Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, Emperor of Japan -Hirohito, President Lyndon Johnson and other dignitaries from the South Paeilīe including members of the United States Congress along with other areas. While all of those assignments involved continuous negotiations with foreign governments involving their representatives, I was personally responsible to the department, city, state and the government themselves. Today, the Hawaiians as a people are faced with a great task. The Hawaiian must negotiate his future for years to eome. We are preparing for the next phase of the Hawaiian negotiating that would either re-establish the Hawaiian people for years to eome or bring him down never to rise again. We must reclaim lost lands and our crime-riddled-people as we continue to express to the rest of the world how we ean achieve the coming-together as one people in becoming "pono."