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[Puna Grace]

Native Hawaiians rally as University of Hawaii updates Mauna Kea plans

• By Timothy Hurley 
   
  
  
• Today 
   
  
  
• [i]Updated 1:02 a.m.[/i]
  
  
• [i]As the University of Hawaii seeks to update a plan that guides its ongoing management of Mauna Kea, Native Hawaiians who rallied Tuesday at the state Capitol were urged to support a measure that would remove UH from its role on the mountain in favor of a new stewardship authority.
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• Dancing, prayer, chant and song echoed around the Capitol as hundreds joined the “‘Aha Pule for Mauna Kea and All Sacred ‘Aina” “to stand in unity for a better Hawaii” and to call for “the continued health and protection of our mountains, for our freshwater sources, for our ocean and for clean air.”