Tuesday, October 12, 2004

STILL THINK FEDERAL RECOGNITION FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS WOULD BE A GOOD THING? -
Here's The Final Part Of A Quick True Or False Test -


21. The United states has never terminated a government to government relationship with federally recognized people without their consent.

22. Blood quantum restrictions preserve the integrity of the indigenous population and prevent declines in the population of the indigenous people who adopt such restrictions.

23. Blood quantum restrictions are not the primary reason for the steep decline in the number of federally recognized indigenous people.

24. Blood quantum restrictions will not result in the exclusion of future generations of Hawaiians from Hawaiian citizenship.

25. Under federal indigenous policy, the legitimacy of existing Hawaiian claims against the United States for treaty violations, unlawful confiscation of land, 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Indigenous peoples lives have improved more under federal policy than the lives of people in independent nations in the same time frame.

29. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive free medical and dental insurance for life.

30. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive land and housing for life.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ARE FALSE!