Aloha nō 'ohana, you remember what our kūpuna visualized, practiced and taught us. Not long ago our tutu was young with enormous responsibility and promise to a nation. Her beauty was known in the entire world and her inheritance a true paradise based on the land of righteousness! Suddenly, her life and land changed forever. She was raped brutally by someone she trusted and was in a contract-treaty centered on justice, but the rapist who came from afar, across the pond, turned justice upside down for non-white people.

After the night of the rape, she was taken hostage and violated again and again till we freed her from his prey. The rapist claimed she gave birth to his child. It was stillborn (new dead land), it could not live in a legal world but he, the rapist, took the child/land believing it had life and declared our tutu an unfit mother.

He took her and her children hostage and into destitution and bondage. He convinced the world that his child lives and that he was the only parent – loving and carrying to his fictitious child. He allowed only his story to be told to the world about his child and what our tutu gave to his child/land! He says the child grew up and became like his father – a good example for all!

Great wealth was shackled and passed into the hands of the rapist and his new family, aided by his henchmen, lawyers and accountants and they prospered while our tutu and her descendants suffered in poverty and tyranny! Tutu knew there was no real child from the rapist and tried desperately to protect her beloved children from his cruelty. She knew his abuse would continue and be passed on to her descendants! Tutu's children instinctively knew that there was more to their story than what the rapist was telling and only their tutu's story would be able to heal them from this tragedy and set them free.

Sympathizers came to our tutu's great-grandchildren with an apology and then they returned with their legal document that promised to ease some of her pain and sorrow. We would be allowed to sometimes visit our tutu. There was only one thing we had to do: “Sign a contract” so that we would never hold the rapist accountable or ask for the land and wealth that the rapist forcibly stole from our tutu or sue anyone who had help him defile her righteousness and that of our homeland. Only then would we be allowed to hold and love her and her great-grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren to come!

Remember, 'ohana, currently our tutu (our Queen, our Hawai'i, our Independent Nation State) is in bondage and is being asked to accept the Apology Resolution and now the Akaka bill! Native Hawaiian Nationals say it does not go far enough – that is an understatement! (There is more truth to be learned from an understatement; there is more to the story than is being revealed.) In fact, you can see 'ohana, that it does now address the heinous crimes that has been committed.

The rapist still occupies our tutu's house and bed, our land of righteousness, and controls every aspect of our Hawaiian society (legal, economic, political, educational, and religious sites). Now the Akaka Bill, the foreign U.S. Corporations, and the prolonged military occupation believe they are safe, and above the law, privileged and they want to protect their status quo! 'Ohana, remember our tutu and kūpuna stood up for us and were loyal to you and to whom you are and to Onipa'a kākou (seek justice) from the evil-hearted rapist, maka 'ala: “Kaulana Nā Pua.”

President Obama, please honor our more than five (5) Ratified Treaties. (See: HawaiiKingdom.org) and give our land of righteousness back, ike maka 'ohana. "Remember who you are, and that they signed the Ku'e Petition. I 'o lako 'ohana, ike pono."

Webmaster note: Several typographical errors in the original, printed
story were corrected in this online edition. Alika Poe Silva's last paragraph, following
the words to Kaulana Nā Pua, was unintentionally omitted from the print edition.
It has been restored here. We at Ka Wai Ola regret the errors.

Alika Poe Silva is Kahu Kulaiwi, Koa Mana,
kupuka'āina o Wai'anae, wahi pana, O'ahu, Hawaiian National.