We know who we are as an ethnic group and we know we are Hawai'i nationals of the still sovereign nation-state of Hawai'i, the Kingdom of Hawai'i with our unique culture and society. The U.S. attempts to indigenize us to be native Americans with a lowly tribal status is repugnant. As a legitimate sovereign nation that is under the unlawful U.S. belligerent occupation, it is overdue for us to reco…