Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the…

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. This project with the university of hawaii, west oahu will develop an ethnographic overview and assessment (EOA) through research and community engagement at honouliuli national historic site. The study will review and summarize existing ethnographic information on park resources traditionally valued by stakeholders, both in the past and present, and evaluate the data as well as identify areas where additional research may be needed. The study will include those people and communities who have had and may continue to have traditional use associations with the park and its resources, although the major focus of the study will be to identify and describe internment camp ERA associations of ethnographic groups to the park. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public.