ROBIN DANNER IN WASHINGTON, DC
"I SPEAK FOR HAWAIIANS"
Aloha CEO Crabbe and Trustees,
It was brought to my attention that tomorrow, May 15th, in Washington DC, Robin Danner will be presenting a Native Hawaiian Education Round table with Federal Officials and Hawaiian educators.
You have asked me in past emails, Kamana'o, to not deal with rumors and to deal with hard facts in so many words. Thus I am writing to clarify a rumor. I was told that you and some of your staff will be attending this meeting. I was told that you were not attending as an OHA official but as an educator.
If you and your staff are not attending as OHA officials, who is funding your trip to Washington DC ?
This meeting is going to deal with the DOI announcement of proposing rules for public comment that seek to clarify the process it undertakes to review land exchanges involving Hawaiian home lands and amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act proposed by the State of Hawaii.
Robin Danner will be advocating federal policies that will supposedly advance the rights of our people. She claims she has been doing this for two to three years. She's been doing this way before then, she is only claiming the period she has been having problems with Jobie. I think she is doing this in efforts to divert us from remembering her Nation Building efforts with the DHHL lands.
I find it very disturbing that without informing the small "n" Hawaiians or the big "N" Hawaiians, Robin Danner and others have taken upon themselves to be our VOICE, without our prior informed consent.
We the beneficiaries of both the DHHL Lands and Ceded Lands Trust which are both covered in HHA of 1920 should receive a report on this meeting and any other meeting that discusses that which is ours by Congressional action and by laws that were passed to protect our rights to the 'aina.
As there is NO TRANSPARENCY, in that these so called meeting have not been publicly announced, nor community meetings were held with BENEFICIARIES of the DHHL lands and Ceded Land Trust, and that we are not given any kind of report of what took place at prior held meetings that Ms. Danner had held with DOI, I am left to speculate that things are being done without our BEST INTERESTS as PRIORITY.
FACT or FICTION?
Please respond.
He Hawaii Au Mau a Mau,
Melissa L. Moniz
BENEFICIARY OF DHHL and CEDED LANDS
