Aloha, '72 Classmates. This video cleared up alot of questions for me concerning Hawaii ceded lands. This was sent from; Gordon Lee, Jr '58, to maybe help us out-understand.
Milton Olmos/posted 2/8/09.
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Aloha Kakou,
I thought I knew what ceded lands were but learned how little I knew after watching this tape by Dr. Keanu Sai. He makes it easy to understand. I thought this would be a good teaching video if you'd pass it on to your families. He puts a different slant on things. My question is: now what?
Well, the US Supreme Ct will hear oral arguments on the 25 of Feb on Hawaii vs OHA on the right to sell ceded lands. This should be interesting since Ginsberg is in the hospital. God bless her in her recovery.
COPY AND PASTE THE LINK BELOW INTO A NEW BROWSER:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8259955335214929894&hl=en
ALOHA,
Gordon Lee, Jr '58
President Kamehameha Schools Alumni East-Coast Region(19 States)
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At the end Dr. David Keanu Sai gives out his website address but it's very hard to follow, so here it is if you want to learn more: www2.hawaii.edu/~anu/
Milton Olmos email: jimolmos@hotmail.com
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Some of you who were at Kamehameha in Intermediate (7th & 8th grade) may remember Mr. Robert Smith. He was my homeroom teacher in Rm. 78 and he taught History/Social Studies. He was one crazy haole, but I had a lot of respect for him because he was the only teacher who after the normal 'Pledge of Allegiance' which was recited every morning over the PA system, he demanded that his homeroom students also sing 'Hawai'i Pono'i'. He was the first teacher at Kamehameha to ever mention to us as students, that the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 was totally illegal. I had always thought it strange... that here I was a student since Kindergarten now in the 8th grade... not one teacher ever told us this and we were in a private institution specifically founded for the education of Native Hawaiians... and it took a crazy haole like Robert Smith to drop that bomb on us. Reciting the 'Pledge of Allegiance' was never the same. >Peter
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