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P\u016bnana Leo o Kona presents the 4th<\/sup> annual \u02bbAha Aloha \u02bb\u014clelo on January 14, 2017 from 9:00am to 4:00pm at Maka\u02bbeo (Old Airport Pavilion).\u00a0 \u02bbAha Aloha \u02bb\u014clelo is an event for the entire \u02bbohana featuring live entertainment by Danny Carvalho, Kalani Pe\u02bba, Duncan Kamakana Osorio, Jon Osorio and Jamaica Osorio.\u00a0 The event will also feature vendors, Hawaiian food and a Keikiland with bouncers, games and a petting zoo.\u00a0 A Hawaiian language competition with well over 100 competitors from schools such as P\u016bnana Leo o Kona, \u02bbEhunuikaimalino, N\u0101wah\u012bokalani\u02bb\u014dpu\u02bbu and P\u016bnana Leo o Wai\u02bbanae from Wai\u02bbanae, O\u02bbahu will also be held.\u00a0 Tickets to the event are $10 or $12 at the door and keiki 10 and under are free.<\/p>\n The theme of this year\u02bbs Hawaiian language competition is built around a speech given on September 6, 1896 at a H\u0101l\u0101wai Maka\u02bb\u0101inana at Palace Square in Honolulu by James Keauiluna Kaulia, calling on the people of Hawai\u02bbi to \u201ck\u016b\u02bb\u0113 loa aku i ka ho\u02bbohui \u02bbia o Hawai\u02bbi me \u02bbAmelika a hiki i ke aloha \u02bb\u0101ina hope loa!\u201d\u00a0 Kaulia was the President of the Hui Aloha \u02bb\u0100ina, or Hawaiian Patriotic League when the question of annexing Hawai\u02bbi to the United States was before the U.S. government.\u00a0 Kaulia and others, including David Kalauokalani, Emma N\u0101wah\u012b and Kuaihelani Campbell, led a petition drive protesting the annexation of Hawai\u02bbi to the United States of America.\u00a0 They sent out delegates to each island and all of its communities and through their collective efforts, over 37,000 signatures were gathered during a time in Hawaiian history where there were only about 40,000 Native Hawaiians alive.<\/p>\n After the gathering of the signatures, Kaulia and Kalauokalani, along with John Richardson and William Auld, traveled to Washington D.C. to deliver the anti-annexation petitions.\u00a0\u00a0 Upon arriving to D.C., it was known that there were already 58 votes in U.S Congress for annexation, with only two more votes being needed to ratify the treaty presented to congress by the unlawful Republic of Hawai\u02bbi under Sanford Dole.\u00a0 The Commission was able to meet with many different Senators and Congressmen and they were able to have the annexation petitions read to the Senate and formally accepted.\u00a0 By the time the Commission left Washington D.C. to return back to Hawai\u02bbi, there were only 46 votes in the Senate for annexation, far below the 60 votes required to ratify the treaty.\u00a0 The treaty of annexation was dead.\u00a0 Hawai\u02bbi remained an independent country, as it has been since November 28, 1843, albeit under an illegal, unlawful and self-proclaimed government.<\/p>\n \u201cThese petitions show us the potential of our L\u0101hui.\u00a0 Our k\u016bpuna were actively engaged in the political issues surrounding them and their country.\u00a0 We are in a point of history where we face very similar issues,\u201d said Kaho\u02bbokahi Kanuha, the organizer of the Hawaiian language competition.\u00a0 \u201cI am hopeful that this competition and event will remind us of the inherited kuleana we have to this \u02bb\u0101ina. \u00a0These petitions show us who we were, who we are and most importantly who we still must be.\u201d<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n For more information, e \u02bbolu\u02bbolu, contact: P\u016bnana Leo o Kona presents the 4th annual \u02bbAha Aloha \u02bb\u014clelo on January 14, 2017 from 9:00am to 4:00pm at Maka\u02bbeo (Old Airport Pavilion).\u00a0 \u02bbAha Aloha \u02bb\u014clelo is an event for the entire \u02bbohana featuring live entertainment by Danny Carvalho, … Continue reading
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