Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 6, 1 June 2007 — Hearings on Hawaiian issues [ARTICLE]

Hearings on Hawaiian issues

The issues regarding kuleana lands and ho'oulu lāhui need input from the native peoples. While these are two issues, they affect one people: the native Hawaiians who are with onethird undivided vested rights in

all of the lands of Hawai'i. It is sad but true that OHA and many other state agencies including the counties were birthed from the same entity that still cannot show how they got authority and jurisdiction on us as a people and our lands that remain within the territorial boundaries of the Hawaiian Kingdom. As a native tenant, it disgusts me to no end that incompetencies run deep and wide within the present purported state of Hawai'i, whieh like OHA, eontinues to ride on the backs of the Hawaiian people without our consent, even under the present U.S. occupation that continues to not follow laws that ean make things pono again. Instead, they choose to take the easy way out by exclusion and arrogance. One would think that issues such as these would rightfully require hearings to get feed back to be sure that what is being promoted behind doors is what our people want and deserve. A door-to-door eampaign by the Hawaiian Women's Patriotic League is in order, and we seek your support to eall for hearings on these two issues for two reasons: 1. kuleana lands are not a gift but a right; and, 2. OHA and Kamehameha Schools are American corporations that cannot push their plan for nation-building for the pure reason that they operate under American/federal laws and not, Hawaiian Kingdom laws. Both issues take Hawaiian Kingdom laws out of context to serve the purposes of the public and not Hawaiians. Rita Kawehiokalaninui-l-iamamao Kanui Waimānalo, O'ahu