Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 13, Number 1, 1 January 1996 — Survey shows majority of Hawaiians support sovereignty [ARTICLE]

Survey shows majority of Hawaiians support sovereignty

bv Patrick Johnston A majority of Hawaiians support some sort of sovereignty but feel more time is needed before any long-term decisions are made. This according to a recent Honolulu Advertiser survey, one the daily calls the first inclusive survey of how Hawaiians feel about sovereignty and the sovereignty movement.

believe some sort of reparations are in order. Sixty-one percent said that a sovereign nation should not be governed by a monarchy and 52 percent said the sovereign nation should be govemed by state and federal laws. A majority - 54 percent - did not support the creation of a sovereign nation completely independent of the United States. However, 83 percent feel Hawaiians deserve reparations

Hawaiian. Both surveys showed that many Hawaiians continue to be undereducated about the sovereignty movement and that more time was needed to ensure that Hawaiians are properly informed about the

decisions they make. Eightyone percent of the Advertiser respondents said it was too early to make any decisions on sovereignty and 14 percent had never heard of the movement. This is similar to the Ka Wai Ola survey results that showed

only 32 percent of respondents claimed to be well-informed about sovereignty and nearly 23 percent said they were unaware of the movement.