Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 66 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to commemorate Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau's contributions to memorializing Hawaiian history by proclaiming October 29, 2005, as Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau Day.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from a private citizen.

Your Committee finds that Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau, who was born on October 29, 1815, has been noted as one of Hawaii's greatest historians of Hawaiian culture and heritage. Mr. Kamakau authored books in Hawaiian that would later be translated by the Bishop Museum and Kamehameha Schools for use as historical texts.

Your Committee believes that, because of Mr. Kamakau's foresight and passion for accurately recording native Hawaiian history, both Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian people are able to experience through his texts what life was like as a nineteenth century Hawaiian and thereby preserves, for posterity, the legacy of the Native Hawaiian people.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 66, and recommends its adoption.