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From Hawai‘i News Now:
Cultural practitioners are looking for solutions to disturbed Native Hawaiian burials as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is trying to fill vacancies for statewide burial councils.
OHA said the governor received 15 of its recommended nominations for burial councils statewide and 10 were selected for consideration by a Senate committee.
In the film “KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials,” cultural practitioner and filmmaker Keoni Kealoha Alvarez finds his calling to protect iwi kupuna after stumbling upon the bones of his ancestors in a secret cave near his ancestral home in Puna.
Alvarez was one of OHA’s recommended nominations for the Hawaii Island burial council, but was not selected by the governor’s office.
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