Anger resurfaces over retrieving artifacts


The Advertiser reports:

Conflict is brewing again over the Bishop Museum's handling of burial artifacts, especially the ongoing push by museum officials and others to retrieve objects that were reburied four years ago in Kawaihae Caves. Native Hawaiian groups, including those that oppose any re-entry to the caves, yesterday announced plans for a 24-hour prayer vigil.

William Brown, museum president and chief executive officer, yesterday said he still has hopes of gaining permission of the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retrieve the 83 rare Hawaiian artifacts from the caves, which are on Hawaiian homestead lands under the commission's control.

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The 24-hour vigil, which will start at noon tomorrow at the museum, was organized by the native rights group 'lio'ulaokalani Coalition in observance of Memorial Day to seek "the expeditious repatriation of all iwi kupuna, ancestral human remains," said Kaho'onei Panoke, coalition vice president.

Panoke emphasized the event, which was arranged with permission of the museum, is a peaceful expression. But some participants voiced anger with Brown's administration of the federal repatriation law, known as NAGPRA, or the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Both Pu'uhonua "Bumpy" Kanahele, who heads the Nation of Hawai'i, and Professor Jon Osorio of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, called for Brown's removal as museum chief.

Respected kumu Pua Kanahele has a related commentary in the Advertiser.


Posted: Fri - May 28, 2004 at 07:47 AM    
   
 
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