From Natives to Nationals
Leon Siu writes a letter
in the
Advertiser,
concluding with
this:If it is indeed OHA's purpose to redress the injustices stemming from the 1893 illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, then the OHA beneficiaries should be the Hawaiian Nationals (the remnants of a political entity), not Native Hawaiians (an ethnic sub-group of Hawaiian Nationals).
This shift in the beneficiaries from Natives to Nationals, would provide OHA and other Hawaiian entitlement programs with the bulletproof "political entity" they have been flailing around to find.
Also
published
in the Hawaii
Reporter.
Posted: Fri - July 21, 2006 at 05:55 AM