Kanahele group pushes plan for sovereign nation
A convention should address “restoring what we had,” the activist says
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Nov. 1, 2014
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COMHawaiian activist Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele said a proposal for a Hawaiian sovereign government should be moved forward at the “‘Aha” convention being planned by the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Kanahele spoke about reviving the nation of Hawaii at a news conference Friday held on his farm in Waimanalo.
A sovereignty group based in Waimanalo is calling for support in its effort to establish a Hawaiian provisional government independent of the U.S. and state governments.
During a news conference Friday, Nation of Hawaii leader Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele said a proposal for a Hawaiian sovereign government should be moved forward at the “‘Aha” convention being planned by the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
“It’s not about a model of a government. It’s about restoring what we had,” Kanahele said.
The convention is scheduled for February-April, but the timetable will be discussed by the new Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees following Tuesday’s election, Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chief Executive Officer Kamana‘opono Crabbe said.
State legislators passed Act 195 in 2011, which calls for the publication of a roll of qualified Native Hawaiians to work toward the reorganization of a native government. Some 130,000 Native Hawaiians have signed the roll.
Some Native Hawaiian groups have favored the establishment of a Hawaiian nation within the United States, similar to Native American tribes.
But Kanahele has proposed an entity independent of the U.S. government.
Kanahele’s legal adviser Francis A. Boyle said other groups have gone through a similar process toward the re-establishment of their sovereignty, including the Palestinians and Lithuanians.
Boyle said one of the steps includes a people asserting their right to self-determination.
During hearings conducted earlier this year in the islands by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Native Hawaiians, for the most part, expressed opposition to the prospect of federal recognition as a native government.
The Nation of Hawaii, which includes some 80 residents living on 45 acres of land in Waimanalo, sees itself as a sovereign government under international law and therefore not subject to U.S. rule, group leaders maintain.
In 1993 Gov. John Waihee gave the group a 55-year lease for the land after Kanahele’s group agreed to peacefully end its occupation of Makapuu Beach.
Also that year, Congress issued a joint resolution apologizing for the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom. The resolution acknowledges that without active support and intervention by U.S. Marines and John L. Stevens, U.S. minister to the kingdom, who was not authorized to support a rebel group, the insurrection against Queen Liliuokalani would have failed.
The resolution urged the president to acknowledge “the ramifications of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and to support reconciliation efforts between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people.”
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“the ramifications of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and to support reconciliation efforts between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people.”….the (illegal) overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i….equals to N (that Indian capital N again Hawaiian blood quantum people…not the descendants of the Hawaiian Kingdom, (Kanaka Maoli and Naturalized English, American, Japanese etc. etc…). Internationally recognized Country/State with Treaties with equal footing with England, France, Germany, Russia, Iraq, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, I could go on and on just more rubbish and clumsy slight-of-hand by the United States! Now for something completely different, what the Civic Clubs passed, a new President and an Acknowledgement that the Kingdom of Hawai’i still EXISTS…take that Uncle Sam!
A little confusing, but the occupier (U.S.) is asking the occupied
(Bumpy) to peacefully end its occupation of Makapuu Beach in order
to get a 55 year lease?
What about all Hawaiians of all ethnicity?
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The resolution urged the president to acknowledge “the ramifications of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and to support reconciliation efforts between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people.”
Shouldn’t it be between the U.S. and the Hawaiian Kingdom?
From above:
The Nation of Hawaii, which includes some 80 residents living on 45 acres of land in Waimanalo, sees itself as a sovereign government under international law and therefore not subject to U.S. rule, group leaders maintain.
Forgive me, but how can a self-proclaimed sovereign government not
be subject to U.S. rule while under a 55 year lease obtained from the occupier? Was this even written or reported out correctly?
From above:
Boyle said one of the steps includes a people asserting their right to self-determination.
What? Why self-determination were we not a sovereign independent nation known as the Kingdom of Hawai’i? Or were the islands colonized?
From above:
“It’s not about a model of a government. It’s about restoring what we had,” Kanahele said.
It depends on what Bumpy’s definition of restoring what we had means? If it means more 55 year leases, that’s not good!
From above:
State legislators passed Act 195 in 2011, which calls for the publication of a roll of qualified Native Hawaiians to work toward the reorganization of a native government. Some 130,000 Native Hawaiians have signed the roll.
Not sure if Bumpy is aware, but that is called the Native Hawaiian
Roll Commission or Kana’iolowalu. John Waihee will be his boss and
more likely than not will be under U.S. rule!
However if freedom comes from 55 year leases why would anyone need
to run a government. Wow, no U.S. rules in 55 year spurts!
This reminds me about a movie Mel Gibson played in called Lion Heart, where the little sovereign group leaders wanted respect but
didn’t want to upset the King of England.
Was that article accurate. I remember Francis Boyle back in the late
1990’s being pretty sure Hawaii wasn’t colonized! Hmmm, what happened?
If the article is accurate, it reminds me of what a few grade school teachers spoke about our alii being drunken fools! I hope the article is not accurate!
Aloha WIN808, do you understand the history of the Pu’uhonua O Waimanalo? If not please go through the internet and do your research, they’ve been there for 21 years, the only land based Sovereignty movement in the world. This was a story that ran in Honolulu’s Star Advertiser, they have fact checker’s so before you put out misinformation please do your own. The Pu’uhonua has a 55 year lease because we are in an occupied country, that’s just how it is, you must live in a similar situation paying rent or a mortgage, the only difference you and this village is they acquired the land through a highly publicized occupation of 15 months at Makapu’u beach 21 years ago where they had hundreds of people protesting everyday and educating our people through a harsh political environment with a lot of emotions and hundreds of arrests of men and women, people that fought that fight and sacrificed with aloha and through all those arrests, they stayed to protest. Not here to belittle anyone just want to correct incorrect information, our fight is not with our own people, if other Hawaiians are gonna do the same thing call us up we’ll be there, we’ve always been.
Aloha Brandon, I remember having dinner with Bumpy one evening,
just me and him, we spoke about the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom,
he spoke about Pu’uhonua O Waimanalo, he told me about the DLNR
wahine Eleneki (if I remember correctly) approaching him on the
beach making the Pu’uhonua possible. To me that is cool!
What I’m not clear on, perhaps you can clear up, is the land based sovereignty movement and self determination is it just for the ohana at Pu’uhonua O Waimanalo and separate from the sovereign independent Hawaiian Kingdom proclaimed on November 28, 1843?
From above:
A sovereignty group based in Waimanalo is calling for support in its effort to establish a Hawaiian provisional government independent of the U.S. and state governments.
This part I don’t comprehend, independent of the U.S.? This would
make sense as a sovereign movement separating away from the U.S., but on the other hand separation would be moving away from an occupying entity (the U.S.) that can show no authority in Hawaiian jurisdiction, they have no treaty! By seeking self-determination
and sovereign independence from the occupying U.S. your actions
indirectly acknowledges U.S. authority in Hawaii jurisdiction.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to seek self-determination from the
Hawaiian Kingdom? Try ask Francis. Or, is it that international land
based sovereignty movements can be implemented irrespective of any
de jure or de facto government’s jurisdictional boundaries?
The difference between the Hawaiian Kingdom and Palestine is that
Hawaii had a joint proclamation acknowledging its sovereign independence. By participating in the Nation building process
wouldn’t that be acknowledging unauthorized U.S. authority in Hawaiian jurisdiction?
Please correct me Brandon if what I see is not what you see!
Mahalo
Aloha, WIN808, this is about all Kanaka Maoli having the opportunity to participate in this convention and go there to vote for the restoration of the dormant Hawaiian Kingdom, like how Boyle advises. Remember he is the International Law expert, he advises our group pro-bono and has done so for 21 years, this man had no intention to interupt his busy schedule to come all the way out here to Hawaii to meet with all Kanaka Maoli in person at the symposium to mislead them for the heck of it. The message was powerful at the symposium but I got the feeling of shock and that people thought his proposal of using Kanaioluwalu to restore the kingdom as comical. We just gotta understand that we can have an opinion as to what he was saying and thats fine but if you ask for an expert in international law to advise you on if this Act 195 convention can be used as a vehicle for Hawaiian Independence and he says to proceed and vote for restoration then that’s all the confirmation we needed to know not wether others disagree or not. It’s really cut in dry, we are trying to solidify the core on the independence faction in the convention, we are just informing all others on the roll of our intention and to assist us in proceeding with our plan with legals advise from some one who has actually done the work before. We are not talking about amending constitutions or anything complicated, first day the convention opens and the gavel cracks, there will be a motion on the floor to restore the Kingdom of Hawaii and to seek immediate recognition of that kingdom as a sovereign internationally with all countries of the world, then we go from there. If you are able to sign up on the roll I would invite you to do so and support our efforts if you cannot sign we would still like people to show up at the convention with us in a show of independence unity and support us anyways.
Aloha Brandon,
Mahalo piha for taking the time to share your mana’o and ike
on this matter with me, I really appreciate it!
Mahalo for the invite to participate, but unfortunately for now
my vision is not yet in sync with the proposed offer. I’m not
alluding that my vision of connecting the Hawaiian Kingdom’s past
to its future is any better, in fact it may one day funnel down
to what is being proposed, who knows?
For right now, if it’s meant to be, let it be!
Akua’s blessings on all your endeavors concerning our beloved country!
Mahalo Scott for providing this forum where we can get clear and concise information through electronic interaction!
Pau
Mahalo for engaging in a civil discussion on this subject here. Of course I don’t expect everyone to agree, but I do hope this blog and forum allows for constructive exchange of ideas so everyone can make up their own minds based on informed debate. Mahalo to both of you for your contributions.
Mahalo for taking the time to understand me and hear me out as well and pointing out some of your own views on our strategy, it’s very helpful to us as long as its positive for our people as a whole. I love to engage with any of our fellow independence fighters out there in any realm wether in person or on line as long as at the end of the day we remember we all carry the same aloha in our hearts for our people and our aina. E’O and good luck to everyone fighting for Hawaiian Independence!!!