Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 10, 1 October 2007 — Walter Schoettle [ARTICLE]

Walter Schoettle

OHA Trustee Rowena Akana mentioned the Hou tribal band of

native Hawahans in connection with attorney Walter Schoettle (KWO 9/07). Schoettle had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact the Hou Hawahans Band sued the United States in 1980 resulting in 600 million dollars in funding for the DHHL. To set the record straight about Walter Schoettle, before his untimely death my late father Kamuela Piiee had already stopped using Schoettle as lhs water boy. I fired Walter Schoettle when he refused to remove the Hou Band from his case Kahawaiola'a v. Norton. Schoettle made the comment at that time to Emmett Lee Loy, "Who listens to the client." I recognized long ago that this mess is never going to get straightened out by yet more litigation. Only a negotiated settlement is going to solve all our problems, and that is what I am working on. I predict an end is in sight and we all wih eome out ahead — except Walter Schoettle. Maui Loa Chief, Hou Band ofnative Hawaiians North Shore, O'ahu