Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 12, 1 December 1997 — HOME LANDS [ARTICLE]

HOME LANDS

Let not our people be consumed with injustices that we know not who we are. Allowing anger and resentment to take control fosters hate and clouds one's mind. Biblically, do we know the lineage of our race? Why Hawai'i was taken and annexed to the great nation of America? Why the Hawaiian Kingdom is dormant,

yet by all laws still exist but not functioning? I believe our mission is to restore a righteous nation of justice for all. In connection with our 'āina, from fear of competition the Department of j Hawaiian Homelands will not avail lands for commercial uses, yet the purpose and intent of the Hawaiian Homelands Act of 1921 is to rehabilitate its beneficiaries. The act does not forbid commercial uses of land. In the 1960s, lands were available for such uses. Does the blood quantum of 50 percent plus denote we are business illiterates? It's time to establish a righteous govemment. Christine Teruya Kihei