Native Hawaiians Want To Halt A Massive Telescope Project. Here's Why

[Hekate]

11. Thanks, Me

I'm a haole -- and a Kama'aina

There was a very nasty fight here at DU a few years back, which I am currently too tired to recap. I wondered then, and do now, whether any of the people who felt so strongly about the Dakota Pipeline were so utterly contemptuous of Native rights when it came to the Hawaiians. I was appalled that this happened at DU. Hawai'ian land-rights, their ancestral grounds, their culture, their concerns for a very fragile ecology, and yes, their religious sensibilities -- all these were were as nothing if "science" could be cited as the reason for destruction.

Native Hawai'ians have been robbed of their land and birthright just as Native Americans have, but with one signifying difference: there is not even the fig-leaf of a treaty with the Great White Father in Washington that could be presented in a court of law.

To say I support them is putting it mildly.