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AKAKA BILL - WHY WOULD WE WANT IT?

Indian Country Today - Apr 7, 2010

“Why would any Hawai`i national want to give consent (e.g. Akaka Bill) to giving away what the so-called Native American and Alaska tribes never got for themselves?” asked Foster Ampong, a resident of the Island of Maui.

“The Akaka Bill is raced-based and the ethnic/non-ethnic Hawaiian proponents are in denial, ignorant and/or apathetic to this reality. The opposition by the neoconservative and colonial-thinking paradigm, I dare say oppose the Akaka Bill because of their Eurocentric racism. Period.”

Mikahala Roy, a Kahu or caretaker of Kamakahonu, the first capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom, said U.S. politicians are trying to push the bill through without input from Kanaka Maoli.

“Kanaka Maoli are a people who carry forward their long ancestral history in oral traditions. Our sacred traditions from the beginning of time through our history as the Kingdom of Hawai`i continue today.

"The illegal American occupation of Hawaii of 117 years is now revealed for what it is – a race to acquire, finally and now lawfully, Hawai`i. Hearings in Hawai`i will bring up the truth of the occupation.”