{"id":142955,"date":"2022-07-27T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-new-law-is-putting-astronomy-back-in-the-hands-of-native-hawaiians"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:24:37","slug":"a-new-law-is-putting-astronomy-back-in-the-hands-of-native-hawaiians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-new-law-is-putting-astronomy-back-in-the-hands-of-native-hawaiians","title":{"rendered":"A new law is putting astronomy back in the hands of Native Hawaiians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While the University of Hawai\u2019i has until 2028 to officially hand off its management duties to the group, locals like native activist Noe Noe Wong-Wilson are optimistic about the change. She and others note that it feels like policy makers are finally listening to Native Hawaiians\u2019 voices regarding the stewardship and care of their own community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time with the new authority that cultural practitioners and community members will actually have seats in the governing organization,\u201d says Wong-Wilson, who is the executive director of the L\u0101l\u0101kea Foundation, a nonprofit Native Hawaiian cultural organization. Wong-Wilson, who is a member of the working group that helped develop the bill proposal, says that the choice to bring in people and ideas from all over the community is what helped make the new law a reality.<\/p>\n

She adds that the law\u2019s mutual stewardship model takes into account all human activities on the mountain, and is designed to help \u201cprotect Mauna Kea for future generations,\u201d as Native Hawaiians believe the mountain is a sacred place\u2014a part of their spirituality<\/a> as well as their<\/a> culture.<\/a> But years of mismanagement has created a mistrust in the state\u2019s stakeholders, which included the University and Hawaiian government officials, and deepened a rift between Indigenous culture and western science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the University of Hawai\u2019i has until 2028 to officially hand off its management duties to the group, locals like native activist Noe Noe Wong-Wilson are optimistic about the change. She and others note that it feels like policy makers are finally listening to Native Hawaiians\u2019 voices regarding the stewardship and care of their own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-policy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}