Article: Hawaii senator Daniel Akaka, a Democrat, is proposing legislation that would allow native Hawaiians to govern themselves in the same manner as American Indians.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

* Hawaii senator Daniel Akaka, a Democrat, is proposing legislation that would allow native Hawaiians to govern themselves in the same manner as American Indians. Akaka ran into a bit of trouble recently when he acknowledged to NPR one possible outcome of his bill: The natives could secede. We use the term "native" advisedly, because no one seems to know precisely what it means in this context, and in fact the new native interim government would set the definition. Akaka has tried to avoid such details, noting only that areas of contention will be worked out by his ...

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