Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 4, 1 April 2005 — Define beneficiaries [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Define beneficiaries

Derek Ferrar's article in the March KWO, entitled "OHA bill proposals cover range of Hawaiian issues," refers to the need to define ceded lands. What may also be important is to define who exactly should be the beneficiaries of those lands. If beneficiaries are defined by Native Hawaiian blood alone, benefits may ultimately go to a substantial number of nonresidents living outside of Hawai'i. The political, eeonomie and social ramifications and impact of that possibility on all the residents of this state need to be considered. The failure to think things through comprehensively ean lead to unintended consequences. Rt. Rev. Wayne W. Gau Honolulu

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