FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\nJuly 19, 2010<\/p>\n
OHA to hold informational meeting on cultural study of K\u016bkaniloko<\/strong><\/p>\n WAHIAW\u0100 \u2013 The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is conducting a study of K\u016bkaniloko, and is encouraging and welcoming the surrounding communities of Wahiaw\u0101 and central O\u2018ahu to attend an informational meeting and provide ideas about the site\u2019s importance and management needs. The meeting is free and open to the public on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at Wahiaw\u0101 District Park in the Hale Ho\u2018okipa Room from 6 to 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n OHA beneficiaries, community members and organizations urged OHA to conduct a Traditional Cultural Property Study (TCP study) of K\u016bkaniloko. A TCP study is a more holistic approach to studying, protecting and perpetuating wahi kapu and wahi pana (sacred and celebrated places) while focusing on why a community values the area. OHA has contracted Hui \u2018Imi \u2018Ike to perform the study and plans to start documenting collective knowledge of K\u016bkaniloko through meeting with people in the surrounding communities to gain a sense of K\u016bkaniloko\u2019s role in Wahiawa, O\u2018ahu and all of Hawai\u2018i.<\/p>\n An extremely important cultural site, K\u016bkaniloko, still survives near the Wahiaw\u0101 area of O\u2018ahu. When O\u2018ahu was a famous and powerful kingdom in these islands from the 1400s until the late 1700s, the area today referred to as the Wahiaw\u0101-Schofield\u2013Wheeler area was one of its royal centers, where the ruler and high chiefs often resided. A vital part of this royal center was K\u016bkaniloko, which had birthing stones where the nobility frequently came to have their children born. This cultural site was one of the most sacred on the island of O\u2018ahu, famed into the time of Kamehameha and through the 1800s. Today it is little known, and needs better protection.<\/p>\n \u201cOur beneficiaries\u2019 request to do the TCP study was timely and fit into OHA\u2019s vision to develop ways to understand the sacredness and breath of a landscape and its role in informing our collective sense of place. This is especially so in regard to the use of land as a foundation and empowering tool for the heritage of Hawaiian people,\u201d said Kevin Chang, Land Manager of OHA\u2019s Land and Property Management Program, we believe this study will be of great interest to our beneficiaries, cultural practitioners, hula h\u0101lau, long term residents, scholars, historians and the greater community alike.\u201d<\/p>\n Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 19, 2010 COMMUNITY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN UPCOMING OHA MEETING ON K\u016aKANILOKO OHA to hold informational meeting on cultural study of K\u016bkaniloko WAHIAW\u0100 \u2013 The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is conducting a study of K\u016bkaniloko, and is encouraging and welcoming the surrounding communities of Wahiaw\u0101 and central O\u2018ahu to attend … <\/p>\n
\nLloyd Yonenaka
\nMedia Relations and Messaging Manager
\nOffice: 808-594-1982
\nCell: 808-754-0078
\nEmail: lloydy@oha.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"