CIA Helps Establish Honouliuli Ewa As A Traditional Cultural Property - Place

CIA Helps Establish Honouliuli Ewa As A Traditional Cultural Property - Place

by John Bond,   Kanehili Cultural Hui

As part of an Environmental Assessment for the DHHL - DeBartolo Ka Makana Ali'i Mixed Use Complex a Cultural Impact Assessment was done by Pacific Legacy of Kailua, Oahu and managed by Paul Cleghorn, Ph.D. Paul Cleghorn has also served as the HART rail project Kakoo, overseeing the HART Programmatic Agreement.

http://www.honolulutransit.org/media/98321/20120405-notice-of-award-pa-proj-manager-kakoo.pdf

The Programmatic Agreement (PA) is a very important legal document which basically describes how the Federally funded HART rail project conducts its scope of activities to meet the requirement for the identification and mitigation of historic and cultural sites and properties within the Area of Potential Effect (APE) of the project.

Below are some abstracts from the CIA which outlines the large scale, approximately 1000 year old native Hawaiian ahupua'a of Honouliuli in the moku of Ewa. Further below are links to documents and information that describe what Traditional Cultural Property - Places (TCP) are and how they are evaluated.

The ahupua'a Honouliuli has many highly important cultural features and practices that define it as a very eligible TCP...

What are traditional cultural properties?

http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb38/nrb38%20introduction.htm

One kind of cultural significance a property may possess, and that may make it eligible for inclusion in the Register, is traditional cultural significance. "Traditional" in this context refers to those beliefs, customs, and practices of a living community of people that have been passed down through the generations, usually orally or through practice. The traditional cultural significance of a historic property, then, is significance derived from the role the property plays in a community's historically rooted beliefs, customs, and practices. Examples of properties possessing such significance include:

• a location associated with the traditional beliefs of a Native American group about its origins, its cultural history, or the nature of the world;
• a rural community whose organization, buildings and structures, or patterns of land use reflect the cultural traditions valued by its long-term residents;
• a location where Native American religious practitioners have historically gone, and are known or thought to go today, to perform ceremonial activities in accordance with traditional cultural rules of practice; and
• a location where a community has traditionally carried out economic, artistic, or other cultural practices important in maintaining its historic identity.

A traditional cultural property, then, can be defined generally as one that is eligible for inclusion in the National Register because of its association with cultural practices or beliefs of a living community that (a) are rooted in that community's history, and (b) are important in maintaining the continuing cultural identity of the community.