“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
December 18, 2011
December 10, 2011
…the state-sponsored process set forth by Act 195 will usurp the longstanding efforts of various sovereignty groups…
“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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July 20, 2011
July 10, 2011
“The celebrants inside were the ‘haves’ among Hawaiians…”
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Donna Burns, who made the two signs on the right in the picture above, writes:
“I think besides standing in the truth, the greatest power we have is the backing of what was done historically in our behalf. Ending with the Queen, but going back in our history…all that came before us. Maivan once said to me that we are NOT Sovereign because we were ‘recognized’ by other Nations…but BECAUSE we were the first people. I stand on that. I know we may fight legally to HOLD them to the flame in terms of our latest Constitution, but we need to remember the Queen and all others fought with everything they had…till their last breaths…for the continuation of the survival of their people. One thing I said yesterday to someone was….the opposition can twist the truth, try to bury the truth, manipulate the truth…but they cannot extinguish the truth. Somehow it rises to the light. It took so many hands to make this stand for the Queen happen. We are all moved by the truth and am so proud to stand amongst you.”
Donna
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“The Hawaiian ‘have nots’ who have little power and want to get it by restoring a truly independent Hawaiian government were out on the sidewalk protesting the bill as a sellout of Hawaiian rights…”
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July 7, 2011
Gov. Abercrombie signs SB1520, officially recognizing Hawaii’s “indigenous” people…
“…continues to violate the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a constitutional, independent nation…”
“Hell, no, we won’t enroll. Neither would the Queen.”
Read the article / watch the video here.
“The people who are here don’t want to do this Native Hawaiian versus Hawaiian kind of separation…”
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“…something that was imposed upon us by the U.S. Congress. And so that makes no sense to us.”
“The Akaka scheme is a diabolical plan to help the United States avoid the lawful return (to) Hawaii of the Hawaiian Kingdom.”
Read the article here.
“…not the proper remedy for theft of a nation…”
