"Kanuha Found Not Guilty Of Obstruction on Mauna Kea"

[Mike__M]

"I didn't feel I had to speak English to be acknowledged."

The fact that Kaho’okahi Kanuha won in court is good enough, but, if this account is true, the way he won is awesome:

Kanuha “chanted 17 generations of his genealogy dating back to the 1400’s, which goes back to Umialiloa,” said Chandell Asuncion, who was in the court.... "He then told a story told by Kanuha in the mid 1800’s of Umi going to war with a man who was cutting down the coconut grove. The story goes into detail about Umi protecting the desecration of ‘Aina Mauna which is defined as Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai and all the land in between. He very clearly described destruction, and his traditional, kuleana to protect the sacred lands of ‘Āina Mauna."

Hawaiian is one of the two oficial languages in that state. Alaska now has 21 official languages. I hope this example spreads to Alaska, too, and eventually to the other 48 states.

[link:http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2016/01/08/kanuha-found-not-guilty-of-obstruction-on-mauna-kea/st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=|