Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 5, 1 May 2007 — Alanaʻi Transit Center [ARTICLE]

Alanaʻi Transit Center

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES IS HEREBY GIVEN that unmarked burial sites containing the human skeletal remains of what are believed to be three individuals were discovered by Cultural Surveys Hawai'i, Ine., during archaeological inventory survey excavations related to the development of the 4-acre Alapa'i Transit Center. The project area is in the ahupua'a of Honolulu, Honolulu District, Island of O'ahu and comprises 710 and 752 South King Street, bounded by King, Alapa'i, Hotel, and Kealamakai Streets (TMK 1-2-1-042: 013 and 004). The project proponent is the City and County of Honolulu. The contact for the project proponent is Ms. Rachel Shaak, Group 70 International, Ine., 925 Bethel Street, 5th Floor, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813, Tel. (808) 523-5866. The project area is within Kulaokahu'a, whieh is described in several early 19th eentury accounts as a relatively uninhabited, arid plain. There were no kuleana (individual land parcels) Land Conunission Awards granted to the eonunon people within the project area. However, the western section of the project area was awarded (LCA #8511) to an institution, the Oahu Charity School, founded in 1837 for the children of Hawaiian mothers and foreign fathers. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the project area was developed into several large residences for prominent Hawaiian businessmen, including Ioseph Platt Cooke and his brother-in-law, Ioseph Ballard Atherton, a partner in the fmn of Castle and Cooke. One State Inventory of Historic Properties (SIHP) number, 50-80-14-6902, has been assigned for these three burial deposits. Burials 1 and 2 were coffin burials, based on their association with faint linear alignments of decomposed coffin wood and coffin nails. Only a small portion of Burial 3 was exposed and no evidence of a coffin was seen. The project proponents propose preservation in plaee for the three burials. The State Historic Preservation Division/Department of Land and Natural Resources (SHPD/DLNR) has evaluated the burials and detennined that not enough infonnation is currently available to determine ethnicity. The remains were determined to be over 50 years old, and proper treatment shall occur in accordance with Chapter 6E, Hawai'i Revised Statutes, Section 43.5 regarding unmarked burial sites. In consultation with any identified lineal and/or cultural descendant(s). SHPD/DLNR has jurisdiction in this

matter, per the requirements of HAR Chapter 13-300-34. The remains' proper treatment shall occur in accordance with HAR Chapter 13-300-39. The State Historic Preservation Division is requesting persons having any knowledge of the identity or history of these human skeletal remains to inunediately contact Ms. Melanie Chinen at SHPD/DLNR, located at 555 Kakuhihewa Building, 601 Kamokila Boulevard, Kapolei, Hawai'i 96707, or telephone (808) 692-8015 or fax (808) 692-8020, to present information regarding appropriate treatment of the unmarked human remains. All interested parties should respond within thirty days of this notice and provide information to SHPD/DLNR adequately demonstrating lineal descent from these specific burials or cultural descent from ancestors buried in the vicinity of this project. La'i'opua All persons having information concerning unmarked burials outside of designated cemeteries in the Villages at La'i'opua project area (formerly the Kealakehe Planned Conununity Project Area), Kealakehe and Keahuolu Ahupuaā, or in Honokōhau AhupuaEl, North Kona District, Island of Hawai® (TMK:7-04-08:17, Por.l2;7-04-08:var), are hereby requested to contact the following persons: Mrs. Ruby McDonald, Liaison, Office of Hawaiian Affairs (West Hawai®), (808) 327-9525, 75-5706 Hanama Plaee, Suite 107, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740; Dr. Paul H. Rosendahl, Principal Archaeologist, PHRI, (808) 969-1763, 224 Waiānuenue Ave., Hilo, HI 96720; and/or Mr. Keola Lindsey, Burial Sites Program, DLNR-State Historic Preservation Division, (808) 327-3690 or 327-3691, 74-383 Kealakehe Parkway, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740. Contact must be made within 30 days of publication of this notice, and informants must provide information adequately demonstrating descent from the Native Hawaiian remains, or descent from ancestors buried in the same ahupua'a or district as the human remains. Land parcels that may be associated with the unmarked burials include Land Grant S-15941; Land Conunission Award 9971:9 to W. P. Leleiohoku, Land Conunission Award 8452 to Ana Keohokalole; Land Conunission Award 11216:36 to M. Kekauonohi; and FP 2041 and FP 2128. It is currently proposed that the remains be preserved in plaee. S

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