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Cultural Surveys Hawai‘i Job Code: HALEA 2 Scoping Meetings and Section 106 TestimonyTable 6. Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center - March 28, 2006Agency/IndividualSummary of View and Cultural ConcernsNoActionMitigationSuggestionsForATSTNotStatedMitigationCommentsKahuCharlesKauluweheMaxwellKahu Maxwell introduces himself and states that he was hired to do the CulturalResources Evaluation (CRE). Mr. Maxwell explains that although he is dong theCRE, he is not in favor of the ATST project. Mr. Maxwell states that there are burialcaves in Haleakalā Crater. He goes on to describe the gradual development ofHaleakalā and his involvement as a consultant on other construction projects atHaleakalā and in this capacity informed work crews of the cultural importance ofHaleakalā. Mr. Maxwell explains that his knowledge of the area was taught to himby Papa Kaalakea. He says that Haleakalā is traditionally known as Alahelekala orThe Calling of the Sun. He describes an incident where 150 tons of excavated rockwere taken from Haleakalā and relocated off the mountain and crushed. In an effortto have the rock replaced he had it donated to the National Park to be used to fillcracks in the road.Later in the meeting Kahu Maxwell responds to Ms. Mikahala Helm's comments andsays about the EOS and Faulkes: “This is the same feeling I had when EOS andwhen Faulkes was built on there, but it is built. Whether we liked it or not, it is built.I don't want to see this happen again, and that's the reason why I put that in myreport.” “If you had years of fighting these people and then winding up with nothingyou would feel the same what that I do.”With regard to his proposed Center for Traditional Hawaiian Navigation andAstronomy as a mitigation measure (see Mitigation Comments, this table) Mr.Maxwell asserts:“(W)e should need something like this to help us to regain what we lost.” Mr.Maxwell mentions that he spoke with master navigator Nainoa Thompson and ranhis idea for a Traditional Hawaiian Navigation and Astronomy center by him. Mr.Thompson said that he thought it was a great idea and essentially the missing linkfor, “...teaching the youth of Hawaii about the brilliance and resilience of theirancestors, and the enormous feat they accomplished thousands of years ago.” AndMr. Thompson committed his support and the support of the Polynesian VoyagingSociety to the proposed Navigation center on Haleakalā, stating, “Uncle Charlie, canyou imagine, yeah, a scientist that's working up Haleakalā can navigate the Hokuleaat the same time because he's kanaka. Can you imaging that?” Mr. Maxwell states,“The potential outreach of this session could be enormous, but the more compellingreason is because it is right. A center of this magnitude possibly will produce worldclass Hawaii Maui-based scientists in this subject matter. Because of the training inXX“To createHalau EhimeNa Nahoku,Center forTraditionalHawaiianNavigationandAstronomy… acollaborationofcommunityand culturalresources toprovide avenue toEhime NaNahoku, orto search orgatherknowledgeabout thebright starsabove us.”“To createand managea scholarshipfund forindividualsseeking apost-highschooleducation onthe island ofAPPENDIX F (2): Supplemental Cultural Impact Assessment For the Proposed AdvancedTechnology Solar Telescope (ATST) at Haleakalā High Altitude ObservatoriesTMK (2) 2-2-07:00851