December 18, 2011
“OHA spent 10 years pursuing the passage of the ‘Akaka bill’ and dealt with multiple obstacles along every step. We will not give up. We are committed to gaining federal protection of Kanaka Oiwi rights.”
—OHA Chair Colette Machado
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December 10, 2011
“…here we go again…we have the state trying to justify a land exchange that they don’t have proper title to. They don’t even have the right to transfer the land.”
Henry Noa, prime minister , Reinstated Hawaiian Government
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“I oppose this measure because, like the Federal level Akaka bill, they would set up a Native Hawaiian governing mechanism that would further ensnare and entrench Hawaii into the US system by turning the Hawaiian people into an American Indian tribe, ‘indigenous’ to the US. This would further the US goal of extinguishing Hawaiian Nationals’ claims to our lands and our national identity.”
P. Kaanohi Kaleikini
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