I've never liked Bill Brown of the Bishop Museum. Granted the museum now offers jobs to many local people including but not limited to Hawaiians but he's always rubbed me the wrong way because he seems disrespectful. I could feel it in my naau ( Read more... )

This is a photo of him upon his recent release from jail:


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In today's paper an archivist for Bishop Museum was ordered to serve 40 months in federal prison for possessing more than 31,000 images of child pornography and 400 movies on his home computers depicting children being sexually exploited:

Man gets 40-month sentence in child porn case: Ronald Schaeffer had more than 31,000 images on his two home ( Read more... )

I love it when people protest whether they are Hawaiian... or non-Hawaiian. Fighting for one's rights is something I admire... greatly. Here is a picture of people preparing to protest the illegal purchase of artifacts by the Bishop Museum:


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The past is prologue

Part One: An excerpt of an exchange between Jere Krischel and I:

Jere: "Nope, not trying to justify Forbes."

Me: But isn't it odd that you do not mention that he stole these artifacts from the cave in the first place? Even in his letter, Bingham wrote ( Read more... )

Another discussion simply because Eddie Ayau of Hui Malama was recently remanded to federal custody and if he does not tell the judge where he returned the bones and artifacts then he will remain in jail INDEFINITELY. Therefore I have to keep writing about him because by writing about him it keeps his name alive and this him alive and if I was ( Read more... )

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Before I leave for the beach... I love it when people fight for their rights. In this case it's Hawaiians who are fighting for their rights and I LOVE it. Fortunately, Hui Malama is fighting for their rights and I FULLY support them. That is... they get my FULL support and I admire them for trying to protect the iwi, oiwi, and everything that ( Read more... )

This is what is happening in Hawai'i. A non-indigenous person who is the director of the Bishop Museum and the rest of the board proposed an "interim guidance policy," announced earlier this summer in which the museum be recognized as a native Hawaiian organization under the terms of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of ( Read more... )

I posted this in the nativeamerican community because I think that people need to know the Truth about museums. This is one of many. The Manitoba Museum made about $24,000,000 in 2003 and another $24,000,000 in 2004. They spent 75.8% of it on salaries and benefits and more on marketing and public relations (about 2.9%) than they did on education and ( Read more... )