Fine-tuning of Akaka Bill for Native Hawaiian recognition
Indian Country
Today has an article
which starts: "Interior Secretary Gale Norton has acknowledged that Bush
Administration officials at Interior and the Department of Justice are
discussing a proposal for federal recognition of a Native Hawaiian governing
entity with the Hawaiian congressional
delegation."The article includes this
perspective: " Not all Native Hawaiians favor S. 344. Significant groups of
independence-minded Native Hawaiians argue that old Hawaii was a monarchy
illegally deposed, in part by U.S. forces, and that resistance to the overthrow
and subsequent forms of statehood has been uninterrupted ever
since."
Posted: Wed - February 11, 2004 at 10:51 AM