Basic Rights of Native Hawaiians

The Washington Post;  November 3, 1999 ;     299 words ......But for nearly a century, native Hawaiians were not allowed to share...right. Disenfranchisement of native Hawaiians--both cultural and legal...whose only beneficiaries are native Hawaiians. The electorate also voted...

In Hawaii, Justice or Just Plain Bias?; Programs for Native Hawaiians Face...

The Washington Post;  June 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ......state homesteading program offered to native Hawaiians, Kanahele pays only $1 a year to lease...lawsuit that poses the question: Do native Hawaiians deserve special privileges not available...That's the assessed value that non-native Hawaiians would have to pay. That would be only...

The next census will list native Hawaiians alone, apart from Asians

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  October 29, 1997 ;     499 words ...Native Hawaiians will have their own category in...and ethnicity standards to include native Hawaiians as one of five categories for data...White, Black/African American, and Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders. "On the face...

Not because they are brown, but because of Ea.(Hawaiian word for...

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......case directly involving the status of Native Hawaiians for the first time in its history...Hawaiian citizenry, Hawaiians and Native Hawaiians. (3) The Hawaiian State Constitution...the case reveals, however, that the Native Hawaiians were instead victims of a constitutionally...

NATIVE HAWAIIANS SEEK AUTONOMY That `Aloha' could someday be a farewell...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 24, 1996 ;     620 words ......the country, self-determination for native Hawaiians is the subject of increasingly heated...facilities occupy some of the land native Hawaiians want returned to them, and any sovereignty...settlement for the nearly 200,000 native Hawaiians has been growing for decades, but...

COLUMN: Celebrations can ignore history, hardships of native Hawaiians

University Wire;  June 4, 2003 ;     508 words ......continually disregarded the real issues of native Hawaiians, all the while selectively exploiting...and the very real issues faced by native Hawaiians behind this idyllic facade. Since...contact with the Western world in 1768, native Hawaiians have been the victims of large-scale...

Senate to vote on sovereignty for Native Hawaiians Bill would grant rights...

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 18, 2005 ;     498 words ......career -- his bill to grant fellow Native Hawaiians federal recognition. "It will have...debases heritage' It would grant Native Hawaiians the same rights of self- government...questions were loaded. A group of mostly Native Hawaiians issued a declaration saying the bill...

Native Hawaiians agitating to get land back from U.S.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 5, 1995 ;     700+ words ......draping leis around tourists' necks, native Hawaiians are fighting for their life, their...Nations and Peoples Organization, native Hawaiians are seen as part of a global movement...governments and developers must give native Hawaiians a chance to prove claims of traditional...

Native Hawaiians want their share of paradise; They demand royalties for...

The Christian Science Monitor;  April 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......decades-long dispute over royalties owed to native Hawaiians for use of lands annexed from their...dire social problems engulfing many native Hawaiians who disproportionately populate Hawaii...ensure that the land revenues assist native Hawaiians. The Hawaiians have an ally in ...

HRSA AWARDS $12.5 MILLION TO STRENGTHEN HEALTH CARE FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 24, 2008 ;     325 words ......promotion, and primary health care services to Native Hawaiians. "Native Hawaiians confront barriers to accessing health care...care in an environment they trust." Many Native Hawaiians have cultural beliefs regarding their health...

Native Hawaiians Consider Asking for Their Islands Back; 100-Year-Old...

The Washington Post;  August 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ......commission say that is because it is the native Hawaiians whose land and sovereignty were forcibly...independence to a land deal in which native Hawaiians would be given all or some of the...that some form of redress is due the native Hawaiians. Gov. Benjamin J. Cayetano (D), a...

Equal protection and the special relationship: the case of native...

Yale Law Journal;  December 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......one particular indigenous group - Native Hawaiians.(6) The issue considered here is a...concentrates on programs that benefit Native Hawaiians, as the stakes are particularly high...membership in a tribe, all legislation for Native Hawaiians define Native Hawaiian by ancestry...

Native Hawaiians Reclaim Heritage; Group Seeks Rights as Indigenous People

The Washington Post;  July 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......catches. For more than a century, many native Hawaiians have chafed at the usurping of their...proposed federal legislation to recognize native Hawaiians as an indigenous people, and launch...in these cases, as to the status of native Hawaiians in our federal system . . . in a way...

Native Hawaiians Status at Issue

AP Online;  August 23, 2000 ;     694 words ......Press Writer AP Online 08-23-2000 Native Hawaiians Status at Issue HONOLULU (AP) -- Acknowledging...actions by the United States against Native Hawaiians more than a century ago, the federal...Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, aims to give Native Hawaiians greater control over their lands ...

`Quirky' bill elevates native Hawaiians.(Nation)

The Washington Times;  September 26, 2000 ;     417 words ......decision and create self-government for native Hawaiians is scheduled for a House vote today...000 acres of public lands ceded to native Hawaiians. The bill was placed on the calendar...calendar. It creates a new class of native Hawaiians who can set up self-governing bodies...