A QUICK TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ REGARDING THE BENEFITS OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN FEDERAL RECOGNITION -
1. Senate Bill 147, The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005 contains language that guarantees Hawaiians a land base.
2. SB 147ensures that 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 commerce clause and treaty clauses of the U.S. constitution do not prohibit federally recognized indigenous people achieving independent nationhood.
5. Federal law provides for the protection of indigenous peoples entitlements and they cannot be taken from them without their consent.
6. Federal law prohibits the states from interfering in federally recognized indigenous peoples affairs in any way.
7. State law and rights do not apply on federally recognized indigenous land bases.
8. Federal law allows for recognized indigenous people to make treaties and commercial agreements with foreign nations.
9. Federal law allows recognized indigenous people to make treaties with the United States.
10. Federal law does not allow the United States to terminate recognition of an indigenous people at any time.
11. The United states has never terminated a government to government relationship with federally recognized people without their consent.
12. Nationality, defined by blood quantum rather than legal definition, is common in other nations around the world.
13. Blood quantum restrictions are not the primary reason for the steep decline in the number of federally recognized indigenous people.
14. Blood quantum restrictions will not result in the exclusion of future generations of Hawaiians from Hawaiian citizenship.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Indigenous peoples lives have improved more under federal policy than the lives of people in independent nations in the same time frame.
19. Federal recognition will provide that every Hawaiian will receive land and housing for life.
EACH AND EVERY STATEMENT ABOVE IS FALSE !!!
