A federal government spending measure pending in the U.S. Senate calls for a study on forming a Native Hawaiian governing entity.
The one-sentence language mandating the study was inserted into a $1.27 trillion appropriations bill that’s expected to be considered this week.
The study’s unspecified cost would be paid by the Department of the Interior.
It would involve community and government groups to recommend a mechanism for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian governing entity, with recognition of that entity by the United States as an Indian tribe.
Hawaii Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka have said they’re also trying to pass legislation creating a Hawaiian government this year, but time is running out for the bill to be considered.
Update 12/17: Omnibus spending bill is dead, and Akaka bill study funding along with it.
Aue Kimo Sabe! Reservations not required! Teepee-Canoe and Akaka too! Enough with the Trail of Tears. Time to de-occupy Hawai’i and assert our independence and sovereignty over our aina.
You know, I doubted God. I told God yesterday, while I was in the bathroom, “If you never grant me another thing, do this one. No let that NHGR pass under any form. I don’t want to have to keep cleaning up messes.” And then I thought, “OK. OK. so maybe I don’t know everything and you may have a better idea.”
Maybe God is a proactivist too?
Comment from Robert Oliveira Jr to Jon Letman’s “Truthout” article fits nicely here.
E onipa‘a kakou, pono kakou e heluhelu i ka mele o ka wai apo lani o Liliuokalani. Long live the Kingdom, Long live our Queen!
TAXES? SHOULD WE OR SHOULD WE NOT PAY??