A QUICK TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ REGARDING THE BENEFITS OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN FEDERAL RECOGNITION -
1. The Akaka/Stevens bill contains language that guarantees Hawaiians a land base.
2. The Akaka/Stevens bill ensures the Hawaiian Homes program will not be terminated.
3. Hawaiians will vote on whether or not to accept federal recognition the choice is theirs to make.
4. The rights and benefits Hawaiians are being promised under federal recognition will be realized prior to the Hawaiian governments agreement to subject their people to the plenary power of congress.
5. Hawaiians will vote on amendments to their constitution required by the Secretary of the interior of the United States.
6. The commerce clause and treaty clauses of the U.S. constitution do not prohibit federally recognized indigenous people achieving independent nationhood.
7. Land bases of federally recognized indigenous people, in order to be exempt from federal taxation, need not be placed under the control of, and in trust with, the United States. government.
8. Land held in fee simple by federally recognized indigenous governments and not placed in trust with the federal government is exempt from federal taxation.
9. The Federal government is obligated to place any land held in fee simple by tribes in federal trust if the tribes request that it be placed in trust.
10. Transfers of land, resources, and other agreements between federally recognized Hawaiians and the United States come as reconciliation for past wrongs and no further concessions by the recognized governments are required.
11. Federal recognition will occur under the Akaka/Stevens bill even if the officials of the Hawaiian governing entity are not authorized by their constitution agree to extinguishment of Hawaiians claims as the representatives of their people.
12. Federal recognition will occur under the Akaka/Stevens bill if the Hawaiian constitution specifically excludes claims extinguishment agreements from the governmental authorities that Hawaiians officials are authorized to exercise.
13. Federal law provides for the protection of indigenous peoples entitlements and they cannot be taken from them without their consent.
14. Federal law prohibits the states from interfering in federally recognized indigenous peoples affairs in any way.
15. Americans on recognized indigenous land bases are subject to the laws of the indigenous people of that land.
16. Recognized indigenous people are not subject to the laws of the United States whether on their recognized land base or in the United States.
17. State law and rights do not apply on federally recognized indigenous land bases.
18. Federal law allows for recognized indigenous people to make treaties and commercial agreements with foreign nations.
19. Federal law allows recognized indigenous people to make treaties with the United States.
20. Federal law does not allow the United States to terminate recognition of an indigenous people at any time.
21. The United states has never terminated a government to government relationship with federally recognized people without their consent.
22. Nationality, defined by blood quantum rather than legal definition, is common in other nations around the world.
23. Blood quantum restrictions preserve the integrity of the indigenous population and prevent declines in the population of the indigenous people who adopt such restrictions.
24. Blood quantum restrictions are not the primary reason for the steep decline in the number of federally recognized indigenous people.
25. Blood quantum restrictions will not result in the exclusion of future generations of Hawaiians from Hawaiian citizenship.
26. Under federal indigenous policy, the legitimacy of existing Hawaiian claims against the United States for treaty violations, unlawful confiscation of land, usurpation of their peaceful neural government, theft their resources, restraint of their rights, damage to their culture,and all other existing claims in international and domestic law will be decided in an court of law, not in negotiations between the United States and a federally funded Hawaiian governing entity.
27. The size of the land base Hawaiians are being promised by American and Hawaiian proponents of federal recognition will be determined prior to Hawaiian's acceptance of federal recognition and their agreement to subject themselves to the framework of federal law forever.
28. Hawaiians will not have to compete with other interests at the federal table for funds and programs already woefully inadequate for those now receiving those funds.
29. Indigenous peoples lives have improved more under federal policy than the lives of people in independent nations in the same time frame.
30. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive free medical and dental insurance for life.
31. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive land and housing for life.
EACH AND EVERY STATEMENT ABOVE IS FALSE !!!
