i would like to speak upon is in regard to the ohio language on the agenda today my name is  beneficiaries of the state of hawaii so you get what you state constitution there are two beneficiaries the native hawaiian and the general public and native transporting it elsewhere and more importantly the destruction of the sacred site good thank you i don't know how to share and members  thank you for this opportunity to provide some testimony under six and i actually had planned this trip weeks ago for a two day trip and it was fortuitous that this ended up on the agenda that i was i was taught that the number one ally in value is humility haha but sometimes i have too much stuff as a basis of what one of us need to stand here to give testimony to you and other  attorneys and experts but i have been qualified expert witness and many court cases in the first second third and fifth  antiquated guideline which i'm grateful that they exist because it gives us a glimpse into the mindset of not only ohio but the one community in eighteen eighty eight and this was in direct response to rosenthal and they told me it got to the point where there were so many so much evy coming out of stand millisecond that they just got the water hoses and then shot the  back together so they just matched up long bones that looked the same size and put a pole on it that matched and that's what they gave back to the twelve section seven of the constitution that allows our people to practice our culture where subsistence for religious purposes and it's nice to see that at least at that time was trying to be respons but thirty years a lot has past and even our own identity of our culture and our beliefs and our spirituality so it's interesting that it's true of the first things i read when i was reviewing this up the street they specifically pointed out the cultural landscapes of valleys of streams of rock thirty years this isn't something we just kind of made much of the sand has been mined for beach replenish waikiki one of the number one culprits of the tree punishment has taken sound from mock up in county ohio where we have thousands of one a very there and we have over it's not just  there's a great meaning and crown in the only the only the sand most of which is coral based on the coasts and i believe even the internet and dunes are highly coral base but also comprise of other and documents primers that you could use as reference to enlighten and learn about what's happened in the last thirty years when i look at now sand mining impact the practices that are protected by the constitution and lastly how can you reasonably mitigate what can we do can we alter the development can we amend the permanent can we put requirements and conditions and we move them somewhere else over because this area is sterile in this area sacred you know those are the things that and agencies like the l u c h well the planet department of mali will have to do before they say here's your punch and so that you can imagine the hard part now it's agencies where do they get this information of what's there and what kind of practices that's not very public you see that's where you have to rely on other agencies like always always willing to help stand start as a reason to visit what records  they have what do they know about this area if you have expertise and on your staff and you have the culture research commission i would think planning will look to you and say can you help us figure out what's here and then that's where you know people come in they testify they say oh yeah i want to t so that's an exciting process because we're out of it and even the community i really think that is lacking right now in this whole situation like apartheid requirements and we really need to take a hard and fast look at what hundred ninety eight two years before on a walk in a case involving the landlord involving ever and only will and i psec always building a marina out there and she had ivory compay she had deeds trade its own ceramic so it was after contact and she was found right in the middle of that beach really wanted to come through for that marina mali where you conquer and you put your chiefs in front of the people this was the people recognize your right to rule from the gods and she made it there when she died giving birth to twins and the grow up male  this document should not be discarded they need to be amended and we're willing to work with the county to update it secondly and you can so you know your court counsel i'm not your attorney advisor i'm just saying o we now have a database called which is accessible to the general public as well as agencies and in there we're trying to build a layered g i s system that will flag areas  significant history to it there's so much input that needs to be put into it updated and keep it current which takes a tremendous amount of resources but we're committed and that's one reason why i'm here is to work with as you speak and to help cordon it off and our relationship and and build that would be this particular document that we've been that the c r c has been using as a source is there a timeline for this to be updated let's say within six months we'll have improved version of is great to help there are laws and supreme court opinions that i believe should be more of a guided stockmen to this body than just y change their status and if you look at the nine hundred congressional debate it states clearly that the political departments which consist of you on the president and congress have are you saying that commission guidance document that recognizes and acknowledges the unique cultural values tradition and perspective of canuck amount the indigenous people of hawaii with regard to historic and cultural preservation therefore it  critical that these guidelines remain in official county cultural resource commission guidance document until such a time that they are updated and or replaced with a truly color couple resource a little the document is rather dated the ek the knowledge insight and not the beliefs conveyed these guidelines remain extremely relevant compelling and valuable today for example there is no question that native hawaiian historically shared a cultural system what many governments implicitly deny or ignore is that hawaiians continue to constitute a group united by particular spiritual views and beliefs about social organization relationships with natural forces and resource use and continuing traditional practices and perspectives linked to persecute properties especially pertinent is attachment one respect for native hawaiian burials and remains in regards to the adverse and detrimental effects of recent sand mining within extreme proximity to native hawaiian  decade hawaiian remains have been exude by heavy machinery and or sorted by a massive industrial mechanized sifter and funneled into a sealed canister set the most of the  critical areas no is checked where it states or there are known burial cemeteries or other historic sites on the property in reality these nine is adjacent to a very large established burial preserve and imperative to bless and take care of the bones is a cultural obligation that is ignored or left unmet is believed to have dire spirits and even mental or physical health consequences if native hawaiians do not know the bones then the grapes no matter how careful the treatment are desecrated and those individuals who still ascribe traditional cultural values to the bones are spiritually vulnerable therefore in closing i recommend  wishes to build in the county and that all archaeological consultation firms hired by develops a ten a mandatory cultural sensitivity and awareness training because the state to start conservation department history and culture and specialists are already overextended it would be wise to also provide copies of this document to developers and to their archaeological consultants to inform them of the document helps you right now it doesn't go far enough it needs a little bit more however to be too detailed makes it cumbersome to work out so i am not saying that you need to be detailed in what needs to be put in there but certainly you should be aware of some of the laws that could help you just recently as a member of the council i became aware of some of the founding documents  thank goodness they have something to go with it but anyway up until recently we had not been aware i had not actually speak for myself i had not been aware that we were subject to those laws in all of our meetings we are because we are federally funded we are subject to the us laws according to that law we have not been a due diligence as a council as an arm of ship as far as i can see and so i have lots of concerns and this came about after the burial council had a discussion on semi i saw how is this going to help you there certainly is a lot more that you have with in you're howard to accomplish what i think because we don't know what all the laws i think and have here we are not aware let me tell you how  if you don't know that you have the right to walk through that door you will never walk through that doorway and out that door is the answers to what you need then you will never find the answers that you're looking for unfortunately we think that it requires years of dedication and college education to accomplish but there are really i think three things you need to realize if there's a question if there is no answer find it and then the third thing is to contact you can we kept thinking what can we do they just didn't seem any answers we didn't even know there was a door for us to open so here's an opportunity just know that in the system the way this system works construction doesn't necessarily have to come t this is just an avenue that they might need to go through to be compliant which means they can tell you almost anything and how are you going to know whether it's truthful or not we're supposed to have archaeological monitors but it's been found by some that people here that they are not always there and i've seen those as move hills of sand and not have a single monitor  to think this is a hot topic and it's very emotional for a lot of people that a spin years and years and accurate attention to that