Treatment of native Hawaiians is the same as for native Americans They both fall under the Secretary of the Interior and not the State Department. This means that the (BIA) Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Intra-agency of Hawaiian Affairs (Akaka Bill instrument) are subject to the same policy. US Congress will have plenary authority over both entities; that is, US Congress will have superior /complete authority over them. Interior relates to all concerns within the USA whereas the State Department deals with foreign nations, governments, and entities. This should already tell you that a nation within a nation is mythical and a play on feel-good semantics.There is no self-determination if Congress has the last say of what you can and cannot do. The following data of 1871 spells it out:1871Senate declares that Indian nations will no longer be recognized as independent powers with whom treaties can be contracted. 1871: As part of President U. S. Grant's so-called "peace policy," 71 Indian agencies are assigned to various denominations. This was meant to end corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and assign Christian missionaries the task of working with the tribes. The Lutheran churches were assigned the Sac and Fox Reservation, now the Mesquakie Indian Reservation near Tama, Iowa.The definition of a nation: it has a people, territory, constitution and laws, government, and have the capacity to contract treaties with other nations. A nation-state is internationally recognized as external sovereignty while holding internal sovereignty. Since Hawaii acquired recognition through its compacts and over 25 ratified treaties throughout the world with 96 legations and consuls around the world, it became part of the Family of Nations (the frontrunner of the League of Nations and the United Nations) as an active international member and peers to all recognized nations including the USA.The infamous events created by the USA deem the Hawaiian Kingdom as still existing, albeit under the US belligerent occupation. All of their unlawful actions become fraudulant, null and void. The Ku'e Petitions reaffirms the will of the Hawaii nationals. President Cleveland declared US actions as an act of war and breaching the ratified treaties between both the USA and the Kingdom of Hawai'i; acknowledging conclusively the US belligerent occupation of a favored, friendly, neutral nation.What Akaka Bill is offering are the surrender of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and relegating the majority of the Hawaii nationals as a tribal, native American under the plenary authority of Congress and subject to their laws; the compliance to negotiate the lands and resources of the Hawaiian Kingdom in exchange for wardship; the creation of a tribal governing entity to replace the Hawaiian Kingdom, the trust lands would no longer be held in trust and some lands would be partitioned for the tribal Hawaiians as in DHHL.The rammification in all of this would be that the Kingdom lands would be surrendered to the USA; status quo for the State of Hawaii, certain funding for programs for native Hawaiians. Add to this will be the issue of blood quantum which means Congress could eliminate one from the roll if one has less than 25% maoli blood. This would disenfranchise majority of the Hawaii nationals. The other point is Congress at anytime can revoke recognition of the tribe as it has done in the past. In other words, they can make native Hawaiians cease to exist as a native American group and Hawaiians will just be US Americans with no special conditions as a native anything.So the question is, do you want to give up your status as a Hawaii National with all its rights and privileges, or become a native American subjugated to the USA? You want the ownership of the whole pie that is rightfully yours or lap up the crumbs that they condescendingly toss your way if they choose to do so? Think about it the next time you are enjoying a sandwich whle birds gather to wait for crumbs you drop or toss their way.
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  • From a Different Perspective Than the US Version

    A Capsulized History of Hawai'i


    With the USA's nebulous actions to confuse and cloud the issues, let's review this
    perspective to achieve a greater understanding of what is happening here. Hawaii
    entered and was accepted into the Family of Nations through exchanges of treaties
    in recognition and commerce.

    We understand the series of Papal Bulls which formulated to create the European
    Destiny, later called Manifest Destiny. This took shape as early as 1095 a.d. and
    persisted through the centuries to 1493 a.d. Pope Paul II sent out his Papal Bull
    Sublimus Dei in 1537 a.d. to counter some of the previous declarations made by
    previous Bulls. But it did not go far enough. Today, there is a petition for the
    current Pope to settle this matter once and for all. The intent is to retract those
    insidious, archaic edicts completely and condemn the doctrines of Manifest Destiny.

    The effects of papal Bulls are demonstrated by the following timeline of a developing
    Europe:
    1713 to 1789: The rise of great powers; formation of nation-states; and conflict
    among the great powers.

    1712 to 1866: The Age of Nation-States and the first Industrial Revolution and its
    spread throughout Europe.

    1763 to 1848: The Age of Revolutions:
    1763 - 1789 ~ American Revolution. (England's child emancipated
    and eventually the child becomes the parent.)
    1789 -1815 ~ French Revolution. (Let them eat cake.)
    1799 -1815 ~ Napoleonic Europe. (Alas, poor Bonny, I knew him well!)
    1815 -1848 ~ Revolutions of Liberal Nationalism ("...of thee I sing...)

    1848 to 1914: The Age of Liberalism. [1848 - 1871= consolidation of nation-states.]

    The principle commonly adopted by all of Europe was "the right of discovery given by this
    Papal commission, is confined to countries, then known to all Christian people, and no other
    member could interfere", with the exception of Hawaii. Europe and the USA respected the
    boundaries placed on the rights of discovery which they asserted the ultimate dominion to be
    in themselves and respected the rights of natives as occupants. This induced changes
    needed to protect their interests and promote the accepted concepts of expansionism and
    imperialism through the documents established by the Popes of Rome.

    The biggest split from Rome came from the French Hugonots, then Germany's Martin Luther
    in 1521, followed by Henry VIII of England in 1534. In 1330 and 1371, there was an obscure
    break from the Church; nonetheless, the Papal-based doctrines permeated the Western
    European civilization and wherever they established their control.

    So, here we are in Hawaii. What does this history have to do with us? We now know the
    mentality and what we are dealing with. Somehow we escaped the full wrath of this document
    in the beginning of our country's typical progressive evolution. Because of our unique isolation,
    we were bypassed during the initial years of discovery in the Pacific. Explorers "discovered" the
    South Pacific; mostly below the equator. Eventually, Hawaii had a few visitors and Capt. Cook
    was the first to document Hawai'i's location and establish a relationship. England didn't send
    Man o' War ships; they were exploration ships and Cook never proclaimed Hawai'i as another
    possession for his country.

    The future king, Kamehameha, nurtured good relations with the future Captain Vancouver and
    picked his brains about the Western Civilization. The astute King was a fast learner as is very
    typical of his Hawaiian people. The sailors were quite amazed of the highly civilized structure of the
    Hawaiians. Wanting to run before he could walk, as they say, the future unifier of Hawaii began
    to emulate his friend and entered into commerce with other countries with the help of his
    friend, Vancouver.









    Kamehameha knew what needed to be done and did it. He even requested that the King of
    England send Christian missionaries to the islands to teach them Chrisitanity. The British King
    belabored that decision and neglected to send any. Eventually, the Hawaiian King's son, Liholiho, went
    into the Lion's Den to meet the growing masters of the world. The Boston missionaries came to
    Hawaii after Kamehameha I died and was allowed to remain which created a dilemma for both
    the British and the US Americans as to who had possession rights. Therefore, both did not
    make claim to the Hawaiian Islands, but recognized its sovereignty. Ultimately, relations with
    other countries were established which thwarted the pursuit of the Doctrine of Conquest.

    By the time Kauikeaouli inherited the throne, the nation was mostly Christian and by his request,
    commissioned William Richards to instruct him and his high chiefs the way European nations
    and the USA ran their governments and how they related to each other. All the while, France,
    England, and the USA were jockeying for possession of this island kingdom. To rebuff them,
    he pitted one nation against the other and patterned his government according to the Western
    Civilization. The Hawaiian King voluntarily chose to give up his absolute monarchial privilege and
    created a Constitutional Monarchy with a democratic form of government as that of Great Britain.

    Hawai'i established itself as an equal to these nations through treaties of Comity, Commerce,
    and Navigation which in time extended to other 22 nations throughout the world. To aid in
    protecting his kindom's government, subjects, and lands (territory), he created the Great Mahele.
    Meanwhile, he was constantly badgered by the US missionaries, who came with the bible
    and the plow. They came to convert the people to the WASP-styled Christianity, pro-US influence,
    and to Western civilize an already civilized country who cultivated crops for over a thousand years,
    traversed the immense Pacific Ocean over a thousand miles with its navigational expertise, and
    had a structured system of rule.

    This fledgling westernized government began to solidify and take its place in the international
    arena. Britain's Admiral Paulette, schooled in manifest destiny, decided to use that doctrine
    to takeover the Hawaiian Kingdom. Because the treaty signed by his country, Britain sent Admiral
    Thomas to restore the recognized Kingdom of Hawaii to its King. With the treaty reaffirmed,
    Britain and Hawaii restored their dignity and integrity by honoring the treaty between the two nations.

    Further along in Hawai'i's history, King David Kalakaua put the kingdom securely on the map; gained
    recognition by many nations; improved relations while advancing the prestige of Hawai'i through its
    treaties; establishing over 96 legations and consuls throughout the world; and actively participating in
    international affairs and laws. Because of Hawai'i's actions, the doctrine of conquest and discovery
    lay moot and claims the distinction of being the first non-European/US American Christian nation to
    join them.

    This must have stuck a blockage in the craw of the USA. Their Manifest Destiny which the USA
    preserved in their time-locked mentality and philosophy would not be abated and conspired to
    wrest the Hawaiian Kingdom from its people and nation by hook or crook. They inundated the
    Hawaiian Islands with US Americans to help destabilize the country to stage a fake revolution
    that it utilized to invade this friendly, neutral country.

    They set up the military-backed Provisional Government; then established the Republic of Hawaii
    still under US belligerent military occupation; ignored the people's plebiscite in the form of the
    Ku'e Petitions of protesting the intended and unlawful annexation; decreed the annexation through
    the US Newland's Resolution without a treaty; signed a statehood bill while Hawai'i was still under
    US belligerent occupation; held an irregular and unlawful vote in Hawai'i by the majority who were
    US Americans living in Hawai'i in violation of the laws of occupation; and enforced a revised history
    to cleanse itself of any wrong-doing.

    The USA's covert and overt actions are now laid bare again but with more intensity to reveal the
    truth of its criminal actions. Now the USA is caught with its pants down, playing with itself and
    doesn't know how to fix it except by more deceit, fraud, and strenuous denial. The Akaka-Stevens
    Bill was designed as a desperate measure to cover up the fraudulent, deceptive lies and revised
    history to keep Hawai'i as its personal property and possession. Just because they say things;
    doesn't make it true because they are the USA.










    More US Americans are becoming aware of the truth that has evaded them for over a century and
    are upset for being duped and disillusioned. Others don't know what to feel since it would bring
    their world, as they know it, come crashing down around them. Some are perplexed and upset
    that everything they lived is a lie and a crushing blow to what they believe. It's heart-wrenching
    to know that US Americans and Hawaii Nationals are caught in the midst of the cross-fire
    manipulated by the USA Government and its criminal leaders and oligarchy responsible for this
    travesty.

    Today, we see the US president and his administration repeating the same shameful, dishonorable
    offense on other countries. They can't seem to understand that the Papal Bulls are archaic as the
    Christian crusades and the Muslim jihads which are the same thing. If they are truly Christians,
    they should be living His teachings and not flagrantly breaking all of the commandments. Sooner
    or later comes the time to pay the piper who's playing, "Aloha 'Oe".

    He Hawaii au,

    Tane
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