#AmericanIndianAirwaves 8.31.2023

Pt 1 The Living Histories of #Lahaina

"Through the settler colonial history of what is called Lahaina, the #KānakaMaoli are resilient in survivance and now more than ever are organized in working to ensure that #decolonization and healing takes place as part of the recovery from the #LahainaFire."

Guest: #KepāMaly, Cultural Ethnographer

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-living-histories-of-lahaina-and-cannabis-from-gold-rush-to-green-rush

#Maui #MauiFires #LahainaFires #Hawaii #NativeHawaiians #Indigenous #SettlerColonialism

The #LahainaFire in the Hawaiian Nation and Moving Beyond Legacy Capitalism and #SettlerColonialism

Guest: David Pu’u, photographer, cinematographer & writer

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-lahaina-fire-in-the-hawaiian-nation-and-moving-beyond-legacy-capitalism-and-settler-colonialism

#Lahaina #Maui #MauiFires #Hawaii #LahainaFires #NativeHawaiians #KānakaMaoli #FirstPeoples #FirstNations #Indigenous #colonization #colonialism #DavidPuu

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

Global News BC: Hawaii wildfires: Kānaka Maoli are begging people not to visit https://globalnews.ca/news/9900430/hawaii-maui-fires-tourism-kanaka-maoli/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #nativeHawaiians #Hawaiitourism #Perspectives #lahainafires #Environment #KānakaMaoli #Indigenous #mauifires #Wildfires #U.S.News #Visiting #Lahaina #Hawaii #Maui

"The original 'Big 5' oligarchy in #Hawaii, missionary families that took over our economy & government, they continue on today as some of our largest political donors & landowners and corporations. [..] Lahaina was actually a wetland. [..] But, you know, because they needed water for their corporate ventures, like golf courses & hotels & monocropping, that has ended. So the natural form of #Lahaina would have never caught on fire."

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/11/maui_fires

#Maui #MauiFires #NativeHawaiians

(On the fourth anniversary of the 2019 blockades, Maile and a coalition of others are now asking the #UnitedNations to intervene in what they say are deliberate and ongoing violations of international and domestic #HumanRights laws by the #Canadian government, Canadian #astronomical associations and corporations.)

https://breachmedia.ca/native-hawai%ca%bbians-take-fight-against-canadian-backed-telescope-to-the-un

#NativeHawaiians #IndigenousRights #SupportNativeSovereignty #CanadaExploits #EnvironmentalRacism

#Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: #NativeHawaiians want the US military out

By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
July 19, 2023

"GENEVA -- Native #Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the #Pacific shut down. An #aquifer has been poisoned in #Hawaii, and unexploded ordinances left behind are endangering their lives.
Appealing to the United Nations in Geneva, Indigenous in Guam also want the US military off their lands. The Pacific Indigenous Women's Network urged the United Nations General Assembly to join the effort for the removal of the US military from #Guam.

"#Indigenous are offering testimony today, and all week, before the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the UN #HumanRights Council.

"Around the world, #IndigenousPeoples are under attack by military forces. In #Colombia there are land mines.

"In Peru, the military is attacking, torturing, and killing, those who are isolated and have marched against the current government. More than 40 people, including Indigenous children, have died since protests began in #Peru in December.

"#Indigenous in #Guatemala echoed those descriptions of militarized force.

"Throughout the #Amazon, military forces are killing the people, and seizing the land under the guise of the war on drugs. Indigenous lands are being stolen for illegal #logging and #mining."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html

#IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors

Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IndigenousHistory #IndigenousRights #hawaii #CaptainCook #NativeHawaiians #colonialism #genocide

The US Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work & multiple regulatory disputes, according to a Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica investigation. In one case, after state regulators raised concerns, the Corps rebid a contract to assess the unexploded bombs risk on the largest Native parcel in the region, prolonging a process that is years behind schedule.

#hawaii #uxo #NativeHawaiians

https://www.propublica.org/article/native-hawaiians-land-housing-army-corps-engineers

NEW: The Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs From This Island. Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting. https://www.propublica.org/article/native-hawaiians-land-housing-army-corps-engineers @ProPublica w/ Honolulu Star-Advertiser #military #NativeHawaiians