F2 - ATST

Cultural Surveys Hawai‘i Job Code: HALEA 2 Scoping Meetings and Section 106 TestimonyAgency/IndividualSummary of View and Cultural ConcernsNoActionMitigationSuggestionsForATSTNotStatedMitigationCommentsAudienceSpeakerSpeaker is concerned about all the utilities slated to be placed underground. “We're allopposing it.”XNoneNoneAudienceSpeakerA speaker who says he has already given his testimony at other meetings is concernedabout finding out about future public meetings and also wondering how much timeand money has been invested in the section 106 process. He wants more to be spent tolet the Hawaiian community know about ATST and the meetings.None X NoneKahu CharlesKauluwehiMaxwellMr. Maxwell explains the reason for the tension of some of the community membersin the audience is due to the “…hundreds of years of oppression of our people. WhenCaptain Cook came in 1778, the missionaries came in 1820, the land put into sugarand pineapple; Hawaiians culture were turned around.” “...It's the land that was takenaway in 1893 and was controlled by Leleo Kalani. They made it into trust lands, thenthey had also government lands, but nobody has clear title of this land. You guys gotto realize this.” Mr. Maxwell explains why some Hawaiians don't recognize this typeof ownership of land and still believe it should be in Hawaiian control.Mr. Maxwell continues later in the meeting to explain that although none of the otherprojects atop Haleakalā went through the section 106 process, this one is goingthrough that process and trying to involve the Hawaiian community. He states thatalthough he is not in favor of ATST, he would rather be someone who has a say in theprocess and has a say in how the Hawaiian community might benefit from it. Mr.Maxwell explains that he has submitted his own proposal for an educationalcomponent that NSF can consider funding.XXFor Hawaiiansto be involvedin all phasedof the projectand submitproposals formitigation.MaileMaile states that she is a student at Maui Community College, “…I just want to saysome things. Jerry, your mother might have given you a telescope. Our kupuna gaveus that mauka.”None X NoneMelia“… [O]ur ohana used to go up to Haleakalā every single year, maybe sometimesevery month. But, you know, I was so disturbed when park ranger said that our ohanacannot go on -- beyond the restricted lines or whatever, you know. I am disturbed bythat ever since that year when -- that was when I was 14. Right now I'm 18. ...And youknow, we used to go up there to that mountain, Haleakalā, and we used to greet ourancestors, our kupuna and also the sun, you know.” “...It's not our fault that you guysdecide we can't go up there, you know. So, please, don't build that up there. We don'tneed any more restrictions. We like to go up to that mountain and say a ala ai [e ala e]to our kupuna, you know.”XNoneNoneAPPENDIX F (2): Supplemental Cultural Impact Assessment For the Proposed AdvancedTechnology Solar Telescope (ATST) at Haleakalā High Altitude ObservatoriesTMK (2) 2-2-07:00857