Help get Mauna Kea on the National Register of Historic Places

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HELP GET MAUNA KEA ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
(DUE JUNE 20, 2024)

Aloha e nā hoa,
With your help, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou and KAHEA, with the wahi kupuna stewardship expertise of Huliauapa‘a, successfully listed Mauna Kea on the state Register of Historic Places. Now, we hope youʻll take a few minutes to support including Mauna Kea to the US National Register of Historic Places by June 20, 2024.

In 2023, we requested the formal nomination of Mauna Kea as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) and historic district to the Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places (HRHP). In November 2023, the Hawai`i Historic Review Board unanimously agreed with us and further agreed to nominate Mauna Kea to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

TCPs are “places associated with the cultural practices or beliefs of a living community that are both rooted in a community’s history and important in maintaining its continued cultural identity.”1 What listing on these Registers means is governmental agencies, and private actors applying for government permits, funding, or conducting historic preservation act (i.e. “Section 106”) consultation must address the impacts of their proposals on sites culturally important to living communities and their connections with those sites. For a deeper dive on the backstory and rationale for the TCP nomination, check out our blog here.

Last month the National Park Service published a notice of their review of whether to include Mauna Kea on the National Register. Inclusion on this larger register will cement requirements for federal agencies and private companies seeking federal money or permits to reckon with Mauna Kea as a living site of cultural heritage. Please help us get through this next goal line by sending comments in support of the nomination below.

Me ke aloha,
KAHEA Board + Staff

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Subject: Strong support for Mauna Kea as a Traditional Cultural Property and District, Mauna Kea, Hawai`i County, Hawai`i

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To the Keeper of the National Historic Register, Please include the Mauna Kea Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) and District on the National Register of Historic Places. As stated in the nomination document: The living temple that is Mauna Kea is comprised of dynamic, living, intertwined cultural landscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes whose boundless and unbroken whole constitutes its significance, integrity and qualifications as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) and district. The summit region and adjoining boundless cultural landscape have an integral relationship to traditional Hawaiian cultural practices and beliefs, a connection that persists through the continued living cultural practices and beliefs of contemporary Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians). The tangible and intangible resources that contribute to the significance and integrity of Mauna Kea as a TCP and district are critical to the history and evolution of Kānaka ʻŌiwi culture and people; the connection between Kānaka ʻŌiwi and the mountain cannot be severed because it is first and foremost a genealogical one - to deny this relationship is to deny the ancestry of a lāhui (nation). Inclusion of Mauna Kea on the National Register is long overdue. Those who propose activities on this sacred land should be made aware of its cultural significance to our Hawai`i and Hawaiian communities. Listing Mauna Kea as a Historic Place will assist in accomplishing greater awareness and accountability for its use and therefore in protecting its living cultural significance and meaning. Mahalo for considering my comment.

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