KAHEA is featuring this report which, was assembled by the Royal Order of Kamehameha I and Mauna Kea Anaina Hou. Attempts by NASA to construct additional telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea is a major concern for the Hawaiian community because of its sacred religious and cultural significance.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

REPORT (30 pages)

APPENDICES

Appendix A (PDF 78K)
Why Mauna Kea Should be Protected and Preserved, by Kealoha Pisciotta

Appendix B (PDF 24K)
Mauna Kea - Protecting the Sacred Resource, submitted by Mauna Kea Anaina Hou

Appendix C (PDF 220K)
Audit of the Management of Mauna Kea and the Mauna Kea Science Reserve, The Auditor, State of Hawai'i, February 1998

Appendix D
"Science, Culture Clash Over Sacred Mountain," Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2001

Appendix E (PDF 538K)
Sub-lease agreements for telescopes

Appendix F
"UH seeks millions to pay bills," Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 10, 2001

Appendix G (PDF 351K)
"Ho'opono Mauna Kea-Newsletter, Issue No. 1, 2000

Appendix H (PDF 167K)
"Towering Mauna Kea gets its own caretakers," Hawai'i Tribune Herald, 6/27/1

Appendix I - K (PDF 117K)
letters to NASA from the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei

Appendix L (PDF 4K)
statement by Hawai'i Island Burial Council commissioner to NASA

Appendix M-N (PDF 61K)
letter to NASA from Senator Dan Inouye and letters from Royal Order, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou to Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Appendix O-P (PDF 15K)
letters to the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC), Department of Health (DOH) from the Royal Order of Kamehameha and Mauna Kea Anaina Hou

Appendix Q (PDF 141K)
Dept. of Land and Natural Resources General Lease agreement #S-4191

Appendix R (PDF 586K)
Chronicle for Higher Education,
June 1, 2001

Appendix S-U (PDF 478K)
letters from NASA to the Honorable Representative Patsy Mink; letters from NASA and the National Science Foundation to Kia'aina Mililani Trask, Ka Lahui Hawai'i

Appendix V (PDF 14K)
"Mauna Kea: Buried Epistemologies" by Emily Godinet (May 2001)

Appendix W (PDF 18K)
"Basic Protocol at Hawaiian Sacred Places" by Phyllis Coochie Cayan (December 1999).