FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS "A VISIT" WITH HAWAI'I GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE - PART THREE
DAVID INGHAM, WORLD REKNOWN EXPERT ON FEDERAL RECOGNITION, REBUTS LINGLE'S TESTIMONY FROM THE INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HEARING IN WASHINGTON, DC
Linda Lingle: The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act allows Native Hawaiians to receive parity with the nation's other indigenous peoples. To withhold recognition of the Native Hawaiian people therefore amounts to discrimination since it would continue to treat the nation's three groups of indigenous people differently.
David Ingham: Oh God! This just keeps getting worse.... I'm almost embarrassed for you..... Please tell me someone wrote this for you and you didn't have time to review it before you read it.... Don't you know the United States specifically permits itself to discriminate not only between tribes, but within tribes and even between individual Indians? Don't you know that? The Committee does, and every Indian in the room knew. I can't believe you said this.
LL:The United States has historically recognized Native Hawaiians as a separate indigenous people by entering treaties with them as early as 1826 and enacting over 150 pieces of legislation relating them, including measures as recent as 2004.
DI: Congress has acknowledged the trust relationship exists between the United States and Native Hawaiians. Native Hawaiians are the only group of indigenous people within the claimed boundaries of the United States who are acknowledged as trustees without a corresponding forfiture of Land, rights and resources.
Why would you want to disrupt that by supporting this bill...You after their claims governor? You and your quislings? The treaties the United States entered into with the Kingdom of Hawai'i were entered into with an Independent co-equal government, not seperate indiginous people.
Do you know the difference between the two in U.S. law? You have alot to learn governor. Or are you taking lessons from Twigg-Smith on revisionism?
LL: Yet today there is no one governmental entity able to speak for or represent Native Hawaiians. The Act before you today would finally allow the process to begin that would bring equal treatment to the Native Hawaiian people.
DI: In case if you hadn't noticed Governor, the process is already underway. The bill isn't necessary for Hawaiians to form a government or to unify the governments that are already operating.
You don't have to believe me on this. Take it from the senior Senator from your State, Dan Inouye: "sovereignty is inherent in the people" and does not depend on recognition by the U.S. government. Native Hawaiians can go ahead and start reorganizing their government regardless of what happens with the legislation. "
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