Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 3, 1 March 2007 — E nā kini lehulehu, e hoʻokele pololei [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

E nā kini lehulehu, e hoʻokele pololei

Aloha e nā 'ōiwi 'ōlino, nā pulapula a Hāloa, mai Hawai'i a Ni'ihau, a puni ke ao mālamalama. The first quarter of 2007 is complete and our focus of "ho'okele pololei" for 2007 continues. The gift of mahalo, the Maisu, has been delivered to Mau Pialug, and our wayfinders continue their journey to Japan, "ho'okele pololei." The 1 1 0th Congress received the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007, S. 310 and HR 505, on Jan. 17, 2007. We await timely action in the U.S. Senate and House on this landmark legislation for Native Hawaiians, in Hawai'i and the nation, "ho'okele pololei." The Mainland Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs convened its quarterly meeting in Las Vegas for installation of President Jensen, Vice Presidents Austin and Lui, Secretary Colbert, Treasurer Furtado and Kālaimoku Bissen, and they conducted their first quarterly business meeting of the year in February 2007. These leaders guide 11 Hawaiian Civic Clubs on the continental U.S. toward fulfilling the vision and mission of the Hawaiian Civic Club movement established by Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole and founding members nearly 90 years ago. It is fitting that one of the 11 clubs, named Ke Ali'i Maka'āinana Hawaiian Civic Club, is located in the Washington D.C.-Virginia-Maryland area, where Prince Kūhiō served as congressional delegate for the Territory of Hawai'i from 1904 until his death in 1922, from the 5 8th through the 67th congressional sessions. The publication, "Ali'i Diplomatic Missions to Washington, D.C., Phase I," notes that "he represented the people of the Territory of Hawai'i as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives" and further notes that in the 5 8th Congress, Kūhiō served on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, Territories Committee, in the

59th through 62nd sessions served on the Coinage, Weights and Measures, Private Land Claims and Territories Committee, in the 63rd through 64th sessions on the Agriculture, Coinage, Weights and Post-Office and Post-Road, Territories Committee, and in the 64th through 67th sessions on the Agriculture, Coinage, Weights and Measures, Military Affairs, Territories Committee. In 1918, Prince Kūhiō and other Native Hawaiian community leaders in Hawai'i, concerned that the social, eeonomie and poliīieal dynamics at work among Hawai'i's aboriginal, indigenous, natives - Hawai'i's first people - were carving deep wounds of despair and disparity, stepped forward to establish the Hawaiian Civic Club movement. Nearly 90 years later, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs includes four Hawai'i-based councils: the Kaua'i Council, Maui Council, O'ahu Council and Hawai'i Council, representing their individual island-based clubs. The Mainland Council, charted in 1988 by the AOHCC as the fifth Council, represents 11 Hawaiian Civic Clubs: 'Ahahui o Lili'uokalani Hawaiian Civic Club of Southern California (1978), 'Āinahau o Kaleponi HCC (1982), Hui Hawai'i o Utah (1986), Las Vegas HCC (1989), Nā Keiki o Hawai'i HCC (1990), Kauwahi Anaina Hawai'i HCC (1992), 'Ahahui Klwila Hawai'i o San Diego (1993), Pi'ilani HCC of Colorado (1998), Ke Ali'i Maka'āinana HCC (2004), Ke Ali'i Victoria Ka'iulani HCC (2005) and Moku'āina a Wakinekona HCC (2006). These 11 clubs, whose members embody lineal descendancy of our aboriginal, indigenous, natives of our motherland Hawai'i, extend the reach of 'ohana across the Pacific to the Atlantic seaboard. Serious discussion regarding a HCC in Texas continues. I was privileged to serve in the installation of officers led by Leimomi Khan, president of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. President Khan said for both of us, "we are honored to play a part in today's rededication of the Mainland Council's leadership to the mission of advancing the betterment of Hawaiians and Hawai'i." The second quarterly meeting of the Mainland Council will be in June in Washington, D.C., "ho'okele pololei." 28/48 m

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Haunani Apuliuna. MSW Chairpersūn, TrustEE, At-large