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Hawaii

ProgressiveProfessor

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3. You live there and are not aware of the objections?

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 08:40 PM

Jan 2012

They have been the source of considerable real life/online debates for upwards of 20 years..

The Akaka bill was never going to pass and neither was any enabling legislation to allow Hawaiians to be considered under laws applicable to Indian tribes.

The article is nothing more than wishful thinking in the face of black letter law and really belonged on the Op-Ed page. A more serious and thought piece or series is called for, and some were done by both the Star Bulletin and Advertiser over the years.

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Federal Recognition for Native Hawaiians Could Come Via Interior Dept [View all] ellisonz Jan 2012 OP

Being recognized as a tribe has its serious detractors among the supporters of the Hawaiian ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #1

Well in absence of any realist prospect for passing the Akaka Bill... ellisonz Jan 2012 #2

You live there and are not aware of the objections? ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #3

I'm of course aware of some of the more outlying objections... ellisonz Jan 2012 #4

Hawaii is a unique case and I doubt a sovereignty based solution possible at this point ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #5