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Federal deal reportedly reached to recognize native Hawaiians as Indian tribe

Report on Examiner.com (Michael Salla citing Free Hawaii TV):

Free Hawaii TV reported on October 29 that a deal has been reached between the Department of the Interior and the Obama administration to give federal recognition to native Hawaiians as an Indian Tribe.  According to Free Hawaii TV, the deal is an attempt to do an end run around overwhelming native Hawaiian opposition to being recognized as an Indian Tribe. Federal recognition would mean that native Hawaiians would become a nation within a nation, thereby recognizing US sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands. This is opposed by many Native Hawaiians who point out that Hawaii is occupied territory under international law, and that the former Hawaii Kingdom needs to be reinstated.

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6 comments to Federal deal reportedly reached to recognize native Hawaiians as Indian tribe

  • Jerry Ferro

    They know and know that they know it and they are all illegal…We keep holding it up to the world community.

  • Frank

    This is an insult to the Hawaiian Kingdom Citizens, but then again, we should take heed that this is a domestic American issue that has no bearing or affect beyond the US continental borders. This supposed constitutional lawyer, president Obama is trying to foist an illegal decree on H/K citizens. Issuing this ridiculous eviction notice on our people, essentially confiscating our proud Palace History and justifying it by giving us a Teepee.

    Can you imagine a local boy whose formative years were spent here on this Aina. His very character and manner was forged here. It was all part of the reason he became president. This is an affront to all of us here in Hawaii nei. This is unbecoming for a US President. Disingenuous to say the least.

  • myohana

    Does the great hawaiian indian cheif obama knows his hawaiian history or does he?
    The fake state is OCCUPIED!
    Show me the TITLE

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  • Noa Napoleon

    I think it is a huge mistake to think of or to describe federal recognition as the ONLY constitutional permissible way to resolve the sovereignty dispute just as it would be a huge mistake to think of de occupation and international law as strictly a demilitarization process no more no less. Such a process repulses the US completely from our shores, its military, its entire Naval Fleet etc., leaving the Islands and Hawaii forever. This is simply a “BRAND” of de occupation just as the Akaka Bill was a brand of federal recognition. Both brands seem extreme because both fail to consider the other path, which Grover Cleveland and many other Constitutional scholars tried to apply to the situation they faced. Remember they were just as concerned for Americaʻs integrity and constitutional traditions as Kanaka were about their national sovereignty. I try to prove how both were lost and both demand redress. The recourse for both Americans and Kanaka Maoli will need to be in terms of these older traditions imo. Either that or we conform to some new paradigm in which nothing of the older foundations hold value any more. Completely new paradigms about WAR Crimes and treason will only muddy the water and create stalemates where no one wins or loses.

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