Henry Noa in Honolulu Weekly


Atlhough there's no sign of it on the Honolulu Weekly website, I was sent this PDF scan of the July 11-17 issue with a cover story about Henry Noa and the Reinstated Hawaiian Government. Their website is hawaii-gov.net.
HNL Wkly re Henry Noa.pdf


Update 7/19: The article is now up on the Weekly website.

BTW, I wanted to add one thought on the idea of "inherent sovereignty" that he talks about. "Inherent sovereignty" doesn't really have any meaning in international law, it is a term invented by the United States to qualify the term sovereignty so it doesn' t mean actual sovereignty (the supreme lawmaking authority, which is more or less synonymous with independence) but instead applies only to domestic dependent nations that are not truly sovereign. This is why the apology refers to “the indigenous Hawaiian people" having never directly relinquished their claims to their "inherent sovereignty", defining it within the indigenous/domestic realm rather than the international nation-state realm. If you do a google search on "inherent sovereignty" you'll see that it is always used in the context of tribal issues within federal Indian law, with references to federal case law, but not international law.

I have used this language myself from the apology bill somewhat loosely at times, so I don't mean to be critical just of Henry, but I do think it is important to understand this perspective. If you're basing your legal argument on "inherent sovereignty" as per the apology, you're playing into federal recognition and the Akaka bill path, not restoration of Hawaii's de facto status as a sovereign nation-state.


Posted: Sun - July 15, 2007 at 10:53 AM    
   
 
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