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Hawaiian Kingdom accedes to ICC

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release – December 10, 2012 Contact: David Keanu Sai, Ph.D. Telephone: (808) 383-6100 E-mail: interiorhk@hawaiiankingdom.org

Hawaiian Kingdom Deposits Instrument of Accession to the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court with the United Nations Secretary-General in New York

NEW YORK, December 10, 2012 — This afternoon the Ambassador-at-large and Agent for the […]

International Cry reviews Noho Hewa

International Cry (“Essential news and film on the world’s Indigenous Peoples”) has a review up for Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i film by Anne Keala Kelly.

There’s so much more to this story–and so few ways for us to hear it.

The award-winning film Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i is a […]

Kona Hawaiian Civic Club sponsoring Ku`e display & reenactment

Kona Hawaiian Civic Club is sponsoring Ku`e sign display and reenactment titled, “Ka Lei Maile Alii – the Queen’s Women.”

Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. Keauhou Cultural Site (*formerly Outrigger Keauhou)

The event is free and open to the public. For more info, contact Pohai Kirkland at pohaikalani@aol.com.

Chinese to Sec. Clinton: “We could claim Hawaii”

Secretary of State Clinton after her remarks at the Foreign Policy Group’s “Transformational Trends 2013” Forum in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 29, made this statement in response to a question about China, in the context of China’s claim to certain territorial seas:

At one point in one of my long discussions about this, one of […]

Reenactment and Sign Display at Waimea 11.25.12

Check out the photos at Lynette Cruz’ Facebook Gallery

Ku`e signs went on display at Waimea this past Sunday, with wonderful ceremony that lasted for as long as it took for the signs to be laid out. at 1 pm, the reenactment (Ka Lei Maile Alii – the Queen’s Women) was performed before a large […]

La Ku’oko’a – Hawaiian Independence Day concert

Ku`e signs at the National Mall

Lynette Cruz has posted photos on Facebook of Ku’e signs at the National Mall earlier this month. These are names of na kupuna that appeared in the 1897 Ku’e petition.

Update: Pono Kealoha posted this video of the event on YouTube.

Moolelo Refigured: Developing a New Hawaiian History Textbook

Umi Perkins at TEDxManoa

South-South News interview re UN Protest and Demand

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Keanu Sai, Ph.D.” <anu@hawaii.edu> Subject: UPDATE: UN Protest and Demand (South South News) Date: October 26, 2012 7:53:19 AM HST UPDATE. Last week when I was in New York city meeting with an ambassador and an official from the United Nations regarding the Hawaiian Protest and Demand that was filed on […]

Names from anti-annexation petition to be displayed in Washington

By Associated Press

The names of more than two thousand people who more than a century ago signed petitions opposing the U.S. annexation of Hawaii will be displayed this month in the heart of Washington, D.C.

The names will be displayed on the center panel of the National Mall next Monday and Tuesday.

Honolulu-based Ka […]