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Current National Parks Bills: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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Current National Parks Bills: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

by United States Congress Senate

About this title: Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2008. LC Number: KF26 .E5555 2008 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)252223874 Subject: National parks and reserves -- Law and legislation -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 The Department does not object to the concept of establishing a memorial at Kalaupapa National Historical Park. The Department does, however, prefer the lan-guage in H.R. 3332, with one minor amendment, as it clarifies the fundraising re-quirements by Ka ' Ohana O Kalaupapa and the Secretary's role in approving the final location for the memorial. H.R. 3332 and S. 2502 direct the Secretary of Interior to authorize Ka ' Ohana O Kalaupapa, a non-profit organization, to establish a memorial at either the Kalaupapa Settlement or Kalawao. The memorial would be designed to display the names of the first 5,000 individuals sent to the Kalaupapa Peninsula between 1866 and 1896, and to also display the names of the approximately 3,000 individuals who arrived at Kalaupapa in the second part of its history. Ka ' Ohana O Kalaupapa con-sists of patient residents at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, and their family members and friends. Kalaupapa National Historical Park was established in 1980 to honor and pre-serve two tragic histories: the removal of indigenous people from the area in 1865 and 1895, and the forced relocation and isolation of Hansen's Disease ( leprosy ) pa-tients to the peninsula from 1866 until 1969. The park contains the physical setting for these stories, including the Hansen's Disease settlements of Kalaupapa and Kalawao, and the churches of Siloama and Saint Philomena associated with the work of Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope. Today the community of Kalaupapa is still home for some Hansen Disease patients, whose memories and ex-periences are of integral value to the Park. The National Park Service works cooperatively with several organizations to man-age the site and preserve the stories of resi...

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