Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 3, 1 March 2007 — Independence ed [ARTICLE]

Independence ed

A symposium on incorporating the topic of Hawaiian independence into collegiate and high school curricula will be held in March at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. The event is being organized by the Hawaiian Society of Law and Politics, a three-year-old student organization at UH that

focuses on increasing scholarship on and awareness of Hawaiian independence under international law. Presenters will be Kanalu Young, a professor at UH's Center for Hawaiian Studies, Kamana Beamer, a UH doctorate candidate in geography, and 'Umi Perkins, a Hawaiian history teacher at Kamehameha Schools. The symposium will be held on March 31, from 8 a.m. through 5 p.m. at the Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center at UH-Mānoa. For more information, visit www2.hawaii. edu/~hslp. S