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Bill pursues rights of Native Hawaiians
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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June 4, 2006
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HONOLULU - Long-stalled legislation to grant Native Hawaiians the
same federal recognition and self-governance that most American
Indian tribes possess is scheduled to make it to the Senate floor
amid charges that such a move would intensify racial tensions in the
nation's 50th state and further strengthen a growing movement to
secede from the United States.
"I have received assurances from the Senate leadership that a
motion will finally be filed during the first week of June that would
force debate and a vote on my bill," Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii,
said in an interview last week.
The Native Hawaiian Recognition bill, first introduced in 1999 and
known colloquially as the Akaka Bill, ...
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