Hawaiian Nation

[Lucy]

I have only heard or read bits and pieces of this, so I am interested in knowing:
What is it about? In your opinion also?
What is the purpose of it?
How is the Bill that Akaka introduced doing?
Is it funded by the Government?
Are Hawaiians, and other racial ethinic peoples feeling separated from the rest of the Americans?
If it passes, how specifically will it help Hawaiians economically?

Aloha,
Lucy

Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLanai

[John S. Rabi]

Lucy, don't open Pandora's Box. The Akaka Bill is dead.

Aloha,
John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,PB,RB
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[Lucy]

John,

When we went to the Makaha Sons concert recently, the speaker was talking about it. They had a guest speaker there, but we got there just before the scheduled time of the Makaha Sons and had reserved up front seats so I only heard a couple minutes of the ending.
If this is something that is important to the area I am going to move back to, I wanted to know about it. (John knows I have lived in the islands before. Some may not however, so I mention it here.) My point being I know how important local government is to the people.
These people on here are the ones I want to know their impressions of what the intensions are. Just their observations and understandings of what the situation is about.
The bill can be reintroduced next year or following after that any year, my husband mentioned.
This is something that I really want to know about personally, it is important for us to learn about and I assume close to the heart of the Hawaiians who live there.

Aloha,
Lucy

Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!


Edited by - Lucy on 10/07/2006 03:42:59

[loffelkopffl]

http://akaka.senate.gov/akakabill-b.html

you can read about the bill on the above link. after years of negotiations with the republican controlled congress senator akaka's bill was thrown out by the republicans, who obviously don't want to recognize any hawaiian sovereignty. this bill was supposed to give hawaiians the legal recognition by the u.s. government so they could negotiate some form of sovereign
government, kind of like the indians(nation within a nation), anyhow that's what i understood it to be. the people(hawaiians) that have the signs "restore the hawaiian nation" have a different agenda than this bill. they are (still)pissed about the illegal overthrow of the hawaiian nation back in 1898(who wouldn't be?)and want it's status returned. i think akaka though his bill would bring all the hawaiians together so they could move forward, which i whole heartedly support(they got screwed just like the indians).

[HiloHaole]

History is full of overthrows -- and I know of none that some don't consider "illegal." I'm sure that England didn't consider the Revolutionary War as illegal either.