STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3042

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 14
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred S.C.R. No. 14 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THAT PU'U O KAPOLEI BE
     PLACED ON THE STATE AND NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge that Pu'u O Kapolei
be placed on the State and National Historic Registers by the
Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, Ahahui Siwila Hawaii O
Kapolei, and a private citizen.

     Your Committees find that in ancient times, in the ahupua'a
of Honouliuli, on the island of O'ahu, Pu'u O Kapolei was a
prominent, renowned volcanic cone rising above the floor of the
'Ewa Plain where a heiau was strategically placed.
Unfortunately, as with too many other prehistoric Hawaiian
landmarks whose historical and cultural significance were unknown
to modern society, the heiau stones were removed from Pu'u O
Kapolei and crushed to build roads and other construction sites.
On the makai side of Pu'u O Kapolei, there was a large rock
shelter where chants tell us the demi-god Kamapua'a brought his
grandmother, Kamaunuaniho, and established her reign as ali'i
after he conquered most of the island of O'ahu.


 
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     Your Committees also find that while Pu'u O Kapolei may have
seemed detached, equally distant from mountain and sea, it was
ideally located for Kamaunuaniho to accept tribute from travelers
bringing taro and sweet potato from 'Ewa in the east, fish from
the coastal areas, and bananas from the mountains.

     Your Committees believe that as a thriving municipality and
population continues to develop around the most significant
natural landmark in the City of Kapolei, the historic, legendary,
and physical prominence of Pu'u O Kapolei should be appropriately
honored with historical research and registration.

     Your Committees have amended the measure to correctly refer
to the demi-god Kamapua'a's grandmother as Kamaunuaniho, not
Kamauluaniho.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to
this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose
of S.C.R. No. 14, as amended herein, and recommend that it be
referred to the Committee on Education and Technology, in the
form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 14, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and
                                   Transportation and
                                   Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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