04-23-2019, 06:44 AM
TomK -
I searched for more info on the group that submitted the 19 page document to the UN. On their website is an article or statement summary by Emilee Martichenko. I don't believe she is from Hawaii as in her second sentence she makes the claim that Mauna Kea is covered with a "perpetual blanket of snow."
Towering above the landscape of the island of Hawaii is the breathtaking Mauna Kea. With a perpetual blanket of snow crowning its peak this mountain rises 13,796 ft (4,205 m) above sea level achieving the title of tallest mountain in the Pacific.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/in...rimination
If she can't even be bothered with viewing snowless Mauna Kea on one of the many summit web cams as a way to fact check her comment, it seems unlikely she and the people who wrote the 19 page report made certain all of the other information contained in their paper is researched and authenticated in some way. Perhaps if this group in Cambridge, MA is committed to righting the wrongs for indigenous people around the world, they should first get to know some of the people they write about, and the lands in which they live.
I searched for more info on the group that submitted the 19 page document to the UN. On their website is an article or statement summary by Emilee Martichenko. I don't believe she is from Hawaii as in her second sentence she makes the claim that Mauna Kea is covered with a "perpetual blanket of snow."
Towering above the landscape of the island of Hawaii is the breathtaking Mauna Kea. With a perpetual blanket of snow crowning its peak this mountain rises 13,796 ft (4,205 m) above sea level achieving the title of tallest mountain in the Pacific.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/in...rimination
If she can't even be bothered with viewing snowless Mauna Kea on one of the many summit web cams as a way to fact check her comment, it seems unlikely she and the people who wrote the 19 page report made certain all of the other information contained in their paper is researched and authenticated in some way. Perhaps if this group in Cambridge, MA is committed to righting the wrongs for indigenous people around the world, they should first get to know some of the people they write about, and the lands in which they live.
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