Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 3, 1 March 1999 — Sovereignty [ARTICLE]

Sovereignty

What is it about the word "sovereignty" you don't understand? U.S. Public Law 103-150 states, "Whereas the indigenous Hawaiian people NEVER directly relinquished their claims to their INHERENT SOVERElGNTY as a people over their naōonal lands to the United States, either through their monarchy (conquest or by Treaty of Cession), or through a plebiscite (a direct vote by the people of a country or state on some public question) or referendum (the practice of referring legislative measures to a vote of the electorate for approval or rejection)." We never directly relinquished our claims to our inherent sovereignty. Why are we reinventing processes, either by plebiscite or referendum so that we ean lose our sovereignty by means of foreign meddling? If anyone ean tell us why nā kanaka maoli should, we would like to hear about it. All elections conducted by foreign impostors and their agents are illegal and only further the idiocy of foreign intervention. You cannot be a kanaka maoli, a Hawaiian national and a U.S. citizen at the same time, simply because the former doesn't exist under U.S. law. The U.S. "naturalization process" flrst appeared in Hawai'i around 1952. Kupuna Alvin Hinau Hilo

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