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State shirking its obligation to fund Department of Hawaiian Homelands

Posted by Sandy on January 26, 2011 at 9:39am

The Following is a Link for an  article in today's Star-Advertiser newspaper

By David Kimo Frankel and Moses Haia III  -   David Kimo Frankel is staff attorney and Moses Haia III is executive director of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.

 http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/20110126_State_shirking_its_obligation_to_fund_Department_of_Hawaiian_Homelands.html

 

 

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  • Miliaulani January 28, 2011 at 11:52am
    It was never about rehabilitation but land dispossession. It was about amending the Organic Act. It skirted around the real issue of Kanaka Maoli claims to the land and instead, it became a "welfare" program which was ineffective in putting kanaka on the land (30,000 die while on the wait list).
  • Tina matildo botelho January 26, 2011 at 7:53pm

    your friend who you seen you can give him a card of jesus and refer him to hale naau pono or access hot line in hawaii.

  • Tina matildo botelho January 26, 2011 at 7:51pm
     I was home less before and i know how it feels like when you do not have food in your bellys and nothing to eat this is why we should be giving to the one who needs the most then people who only out there for the monies. Jesus said, you will always have the poor with you it is up to you to take care of it you see a man and he ask of you do not turn away from him never.
  • Tina matildo botelho January 26, 2011 at 7:48pm
    God bless you kahoi, because to see aperson who eats of the rubbish can and not only help them when they ask of you is murder, i explained this to our govenor yesterday cutting taxes from the poor is like murder did you see the news on cutting taxes for the welfare people and the tanf , it is so intresting what this amn said on telelvision , how much more the poor have to suffer.
  • Kaohi January 26, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Oh sorry,

     

    I forgot to tell you that, I attended a Hawaiian Homestead Nanakuli meeting last night.  My experiences are different from most on the Maoliworld forums

  • Kaohi January 26, 2011 at 2:01pm
    My apologies to my people, but this siphoning off the sprinkled tops of the Republican Party that has been nothing but a bed bug in our sleeping area.  The original idea was to "Rehabilitate Native Hawaiians on their land" and because of the 'dying race' ideology.  The 200,000 acres that belongs to native Hawaiian with 50% plus bloodquantum was nothing more than a blood spot under a microscope.  Sadly, many of the Hawaiian Nationals made out like a bandito with our land and its revenues.  Not only is the state in 'Breach of Trust' we seriously have no inventory of the 5(f) lands where our revenue should be coming from.  OHA paid Towill Corporation to inventory (lie) and lock down the information as an anomaly.  The Legislature are in bed with the General Leases of DHHL,check out the whose, who listings.  One should start with Steve Kuna's report 1974 and 1975.  It is an interesting information of the factual records of the politicians dark hands.  Commercialism has been in the works while Prince Kuhio was in Africa or was that OCCC.  The wait list was insignificant on the minds and lips of 99% OHA candidates back in 1978-9. So this office is a lot of 'go fish' or 'go to jail' but that is not the real world.  I watched a Kanaka eat out of a rubbish can today, near Waianae Store.  What are we going to do about that problem is much more of my concern, than revenues for DHHL.  At least if they are layed off, they can maybe get another job, collect unemployment (?), rent a hotel room on DHHL lands and play cricket.  Maybe put in an application for the tourist industry before one hits the health spa. 
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