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The following is a discussion off of Facebook.....shared with more Kanaka Maoli....the purpose is to Know Who You Follow and to let everyone know that because some  are Related to Us doesn't necessarily mean they are for us...the Kamehameha Families nor are they For All Kanaka Maoli and others/the 40,000+ subjects, families, friends who supported Queen Liliuokalani:

• This post contains the Document of Kelii Gora that was his intervention at the 
  Twelfth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues , May 20­-31, 2013, NewYorkCity............which prompted Dexter Ka'iama's intervention "Ke Kanaka O'iwi"
  
  On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Melissa Moniz <ohanamoniz@aol.com> wrote:
  Aloha Mililani....
  
  Asking your permission to post this....I don't want to post this without explaining your position on Gora document or the world going make assumptions. Any changes corrections to my part on the top? Go make them.
  
  Love you plenty,
  Meliss
  
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  June 3, 2013 6:30pm
  Aloha Melissa,
  Please do post the documents. 
  
  There has been quite alot of misinformation & allegations recently by the "Hawaii Independence" people, all misinformation as I see it as none of their concerns actually interface with what is going on. 
  
  #1. There is no reason for people to be confused about who is moving what interventions at the UN. Every year for the past10 years the Center for Hawaiian studies has collected & bound all the Pacific Interventions & given copies to every PF Expert as well as the caucus. Anyone can get a copy of this years interventions, or the past 10 years, from CHS. People can go get the record & read it. 
  
  #2. I, Mililani B. Trask, hold a credential (Non-Eco-Soc) for NA KOA IKAIKA KALAHUI HAWAII. I sign every intervention I prepare. I also work with the Grand Council on their Eco-Soc interventions, they are global & I acsribe under the same credential name. My Eco-Soc credential is not under the Pacific but global. I am not the credential holder of the Eco-Soc anymore, but we all still work together on issues.
  
  #3. There are many many other Hawaiians attending & filing Interventions under their own group names. These include those on the attached Intervention including the people who sighed onto the Hawaii Intervention you forwarded. .....KaLāhuiHawaiʻ i UNKAMAKAKU
  KaLeiPāpahiʻ oKākuhihewa Kukuiokane
  KeAlaOKaPiko Papakipuka
  KeKahuaoKūaliʻ i 
  
  #4. There has been quite alot of misinformation & allegations recently by the "Hawaii Independence" people, mostly BS as far asI can see. I am not sure who is signing on for Ka Lahui Hawaii, or t others named above, but I have not used that credential for years. If the Independence gossipers want to check the record they can & should, that way they will know who is supporting which intervention. This year, I only signed on to 1 intervention, it was the collective Intervention on the UNESCO/WHC issue. I was presented before I came on Thursday afternoon so I do not know who read it on the floor. 
  
  #5. I just received a few minutes ago, the final list of those attending the Alta meeting. I will be working with the drafting group. All regional statements are too long as written, a third draft is circulating after the Madrid meeting, but the language I submitted for the UNESCO/WHC was not included. I will be at Alta to get this into the final. Three groups from the Pacific filed an objection on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands WHC listing (Koani Foundation, Na Koa Ikaika KaLahu Hawaii & the Guam Coalition) & we are still working on this. Matthias & Dalee have already emailed they will support this at Alta. A second priority is to interface with Tercilla & the Indigenous Women on the global Womans meeting that the Spanish Speakers are planning. We just pulled together a Pacific Womens meeting in NY to discus organizing & will continue discussions on this at Alta. 
  
  #6. There are many agenda's moving at Alta, I do not see much hope to create anything new, but we could lose ground if we are not careful.
  
  #7. It is interesting that all the grumblers and Kings & Queens want to control the Pacific Global Caucus, but none of them have worked to build a UN caucus on decol. themselves. This would likely have to be undertaken with the Caribbean & Porto Rico etc. I doubt that the Pacific will be inclined to follow the many Hawaii Kings & Queens & their haole Ambassadors who reside on the US Continent - it will not happen because the talkers & grumblers never do any work. 
  
  Aloha,
  Mililani
  
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  Finally here is the post..............
  
  I am posting the Document supported by Lilikala/Gora ma. I would also like to ask that when reading it, take note that Ka Lahui has been inactive for years. I do know that there has been a group of college students reviewing it's Constitution and Bylaws and rewriting it. Mililani was the first kia'aina. There has been others. I believe the last kia'aina of Ka Lahui was Kealii Gora but I am not positive. 
  
  When I spoke to Mililani of this document she had not seen it yet, she also stated that we need to ask and see who signed it as she is not Ka Lahui, which everyone assumes she is because she founded it. She did not sign this document. I am still trying to see who endorsed this document.
  
  Dexter Ka'iama and Kalama Niheu , who represented us at UN, notified us of this document prepared by Keali'i Gora. Upon taking a close look at the language of this Pacific Statement and discussion with others it was decided that we would not support it.
  
  Dexter has sent out "Ke Kanaka Oiwi" requesting endorsement and support that reflects our interests in regards to independence and self determination.
  
  It is very clear that we need to be makaʻala about what is happening internationally, and just because an initiative is coming from the Pacific Caucus, does not mean that it represents our best interests.
  
  This is Lilikala/Gora 's Document. We not sure if it was actually submitted but it prompted Dexter folks to produce our own document that reflects our interests and our voice at the United Nations.
  
  In my opinion, this document being presented by Dexter , "Ke Kanaka Oiwi", honors the endorsers of the Ku'e Petition.
  
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  Gora 's Document:
  
  Twelfth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 
  May 20­-31, 2013
  NewYorkCity
  
  Intervention of the Hawaiʻ i Caucus Item 8 Future Work of the Forum, including Economic and Social Issues, and other emerging issues.
  
  Endorsed by:
  
  Written by 
  Keali'i'olu'olu Gora
  <kealiig@hotmail.com>
  
  Mr.Chair
  Members of the Permanent Forum Indigenous Brothers and Sisters
  UN Agencies
  
  Aloha! 
  I also bring warm greetings and salutations to the ancestors, traditional leaders and people of the Haudenosaunee where we meet to discuss important issues today.
  
  In addition, Mr.Chair, the Hawaiʻ i Caucus unequivocally supports the PacificDeclaration of the Preparatory Meeting for Pacific Indigenous Peoples on the World Indigenous Peoples 2014, which was held on March 19­- 21, 2013, in Redfern, Sydney, Australia.
  
  The Hawaiʻ i Caucus strongly supports item8 relating to the Future Work ofthe Forum, including Economic and Social Issues, and other emerging issues. Itis very important that while we are discussing current and past agenda items, it is also just as important to provide other agenda items that’ll advance, expand and enhance the work of the Forum.
  
  The Pacific Declaration is in accordance with Resolution A/RES/65/198of the United Nations General Assembly on 3 March 2011, to organize a highlevel plenary meeting ofthe General Assembly to be known as the WorldConference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP)to be held in 2014, to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of the rights of indigenouspeoples, including those acknowledged in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as well as pursuant to Resolution A/66/L.61 of the United Nations General Assembly on 17 September2012, that the WCIP shall result in a concise action­ oriented, outcomedocument taking into account the views emerging from , preparatory processes through informal interactive hearings and inclusive and open informal consultations among and between member states and indigenous peoples.
  
  RECOMMENDATIONS:
  
  While indigenous peoples face many challenges in the areas of economic, social and other emerging issues , the Hawaii iCaucus support the followingrecommendations:
  
  1. That the Permanent Forum call upon the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly to support the establishment of aWorld Conference on Decolonization.
  
  2. That Hawaiʻi be re­inscribed onto the list of non­self­
  governing territories.
  
  3. The Hawaiʻi delegation is very pleased that the UN General Assembly voted on Friday, May 17, 2013 to add French Polynesia to its list ofterritories that should be decolonized, affirming the right of the islands'inhabitants (Taʻ Maohi) to "self­determination and independence" in accordance with [A/67/L.56/Rev.1]. Our delegation calls upon thePermanent Forum and the UN General Assembly to also support
  Hawaiʻ i’s right to be reinscribed onto the list of non­self governing territories.Furthermore, we call upon the US government to facilitate an expeditious process towards self­ determination for indigenous Hawaiians.
  
  Pursuant to the Study on Decolonization of the Pacific­ E/C.19/2013/12,the Hawaiʻi Caucus is requesting the following amendments to the Hawaiʻisection of the study:
  
  44.A. The colonization of Hawaii by the United States of America began with the arrival of American Calvinist missionaries in 1820, who as early as1836, were recommending the annexation of Hawaiʻ i to America and theprivate ownership of Hawaiian land by foreigners. In support of them, theirrelatives and friends in the American congress declared the 1842 TylerDoctrine; stating to Britain and France that Hawaiʻ i was in the Americansphere of influence.
  
  44.B. In 1887, Americans forced King Kalākaua to sign the Bayonet Constitution, under duress, which allowed foreign nationals to vote inHawaiian government elections and allowed a permanent American militarybase at Pearl Harbor. In 1893, when Queen Liliʻ uokalani tried to promulgate a new constitution, Americans in the Privy Council called for the landing of theAmerican troops and declared martial law. In 1900, because the Queen hadformally protested and because 95% of all Hawaiians signed the Kue Anti Annexation Petitions, Congress could not sustain a vote on an Annexationtreaty, and instead illegally took Hawaiʻ i by joint resolution, through American military occupation, and without a vote of the Indigenous Hawaiians.
  
  44.C. In 1946, the United Nations placed Hawaiʻ i upon the list of decolonizing nations, but Indigenous Hawaiians were never ,allowed a voice inthe annual discussions on decolonization. In 1959, the American Government held a plebiscite on the question of Hawaiʻ i becoming a state in the United States of America, whereby Indigenous Hawaiians were outnumbered in that vote by foreigners in their own country. Moreover, the question of decolonizing Hawaiʻ i and returning it to an independent Indigenous Hawaiian government was not on the ballot, in contravention to United Nations requirements for removal from the list of non­selfgoverning territories.
  
  44.D. In 1993, KaLāhui Hawai'i, an Indigenous Native Hawaiian initiativeforself­determination sent representatives to the United Nations Working Groupon Indigenous Populations, to ask for re­inscription of Hawaiʻ i on to the Decolonization Committee’s list of non­selfgoverning territories, and since then has annually made the same request to the UN at the Working Group onIndigenous Peoples in Geneva and now at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues inNewYork.
  
  44.E. In 1995, KaLāhui Hawaiʻ i participated in the UN Treaty Study by the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, lead by Miguel Alphonso­ Martinez,and in 1998, found that the overthrow was illegal, annexation an unequaltreaty and that Hawaiʻ i should be placed back onto the list of non­self­governing territories.
  
  44.F.Whatever the nature of the group advocating independence, the focus is the same: self­governance and self­determination as an independent nation or through a relationship similar to tribal sovereignty in the United States. Inrecognition of the close economic ties with the UnitedStates, there is alsoagreement that an incremental approach be adopted.
  
  45. Hawaii, like French Polynesia, originally featured on the the list of NonSelf­ Governing Territories until it was unilaterally removed at the time ofstatehood in 1959 .It is acknowledged that, in 1993, the then President,WilliamJ.Clinton, apologized on behalf of the United States fortheGovernment’s role in the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. Also, the U.S. Congress admitted their complicity in the overthrow by stating:Whereas, the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished theirclaims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their national lands tothe United States, either through monarchy or by plebiscite or referendum. It issuggested that this apology should provide a fertile platform on which to re­engage dialogue between the Hawaiian independence movements and theGovernment, focusing on commonalities such as self­governance and self­determination.
  
  Given that these terms can be manifested in various vehicles, the key is tobegin open and meaningful dialogue. Hawaii offers lessons for the UnitedNations with regard to its responsibility towards indigenous peoples. TheOrganization’s own standards were not met when changing the status andcondition of the Hawaiian people. Questions arising in relation to moral and legal obligations could be valuable in the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism. Furthermore , it is noted that in 1998, legal and educational experts of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations conducted a Treaty Study and rendered a decision, Ka Lahui Hawaii v. USA, that the overthrow was illegal, annexation was an unequal treaty and that Hawaii should go back on to the list of Non­ Self­ GoverningTerritories.
  46. The indigenous Peoples of Hawaii experience disproportionate rates ofmortality, poverty, unemployment, incarceration, homelessness, and otherdeterminants of health. These indicators, when available, demonstrate thesuffering experienced by Native Hawaiians as a direct result of colonization. Inaddition, forced relocation due to the rising costs of living have shifted nearly half this indigenous population away from traditional homelands, making access to community, family, and culture extremely challenging.
  
  For these substantive reasons mentioned above, Mr.Chair, the Hawaiʻ iCaucus is requesting the Forum to establish a World Conference onDecolonization to be held in the next 4 years.