KANAKA MAOLI OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA
We, the undersigned Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) kupuna (elder spokespersons), write this Open Letter to you on behalf of many in our Kanaka Maoli nation who are indigenous to these islands in which you were born, to welcome you home, with your Chicago `ohana (family), for a well-deserved nanea (rest and relaxation)....
...we Kanaka Maoli appeal to you, Mr. President-elect, to join with us in constituting a high-level Kanaka Maoli-US Commission, composed of recognized experts from our two nations, as well as from the international community, to review the ramifications of the injuries done to our Kanaka Maoli nation and people by the U.S. since 1893, and continuing through the 2000 introduction of the unacceptable Akaka Bill, with a view to proposing pono (just) and honorable remedies without which there can be no reconciliation....
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