🧭Imagine... The Land Living Long After Us🧭
💡 Imagined Endstate:
A Hawaiʻi where every military decision honors the land as a living ancestor. Where stewardship isn't seasonal or strategic, but sacred. Where children return to find not just land, but a homeland.
📚 Source:
Knodell, K. (2025, August 18). Army chief vows respect for Hawai‘i culture and environment, but 60-day timeline questioned. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Link.
💥 What’s the Big Deal:
The Army's new Chief of Staff may pledge cultural respect and environmental stewardship in Hawai‘i, but a 60-day window to decide the fate of thousands of acres is precarious. Military occupation of land isn’t just about access, it’s about legacy.
To the Pacific people, land is not property; it is identity 🌺. It is not what you extract, but what you protect. And, specifically in Hawaii, the stewardship of ʻāina, rooted in mālama ʻāina, isn’t negotiable within bureaucratic deadlines 📅.
The Army's gesture, while welcomed, rings hollow if it doesn’t embody deep accountability. To lose land is to lose language, livelihood, and lineage. The land is chief, the people are its servants. This is not only a cultural caution; it is the essence of Pacific peoples existence. The real question isn't how fast leases can be renewed, but how deeply the land is being understood. Will we ensure generations have a home to return to after all the conflicts are over, or will they inherit only scars🌋?
#MālamaʻĀina, #LandIsLife, #HawaiianSovereignty, #NoMoreRushedLeases, #AlohaʻĀina, #StewardshipNotOccupation, #LegacyOfPlace,#IMSPARK,
