A ‘Pathway’ To Native Hawaiian Self-Governance

[kalakoa]

the whole land lease thing seems like a scam. What happens when no one qualifies any more?

I believe that's exactly the point.

[Eric1600]

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Originally posted by randomq

hotpe, the whole land lease thing seems like a scam. What happens when no one qualifies any more? It would make more sense to me to lease it to anyone that wished to live by and preserve traditional methods or values, instead of turning it into a race issue.

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I think the problem is that anyone could meet those guidelines and end up with property in the homestead areas. Then you have a subjective test of who is actually "Hawaiian enough" decided by whom? And then the 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation might not embrace whatever is considered "Hawaiian enough" as time evolves and are they going to be evicted too?