ALERT! - TELL THE US DEPT OF INTERIOR “NO!” TO PROPOSED RULE MAKING
Please forward this to all Hawaiians and our supporters.
As you may have heard, despite overwhelming opposition expressed at hearings last summer throughout Hawai`i, the US Department of Interior (DOI) has issued proposed changes to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.
These amendments would create “Land Exchange Procedures and Procedures to Amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.”
Robin Danner, the Council For Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) and the Sovereign Councils Of The Hawaiian Homelands Assembly (SCHAA) have been meeting in secret with the DOI for three years to make this a reality.
What this means is through tricky, under-handed land-swapping, Hawaiian homesteaders could be evicted from their homes.
While this has been going on for some time now, their proposed amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act would create new rules to make it legal.
Other proposed amendments would make it possible for the DOI, in conjunction with the Hawai`i legislature, to create a US Hawaiian tribe without needing US Congressional approval.
The fact that these proposed rule changes, if allowed, could evict Hawaiians from their homes and even convert them into US tribal status without their permission is unacceptable.
We ask you and everyone you know to tell the DOI “No!” today.
You have until July 13th to do so.
Please go to http://TinyURL.com/NoRuleChanges today and submit your testimony to let the DOI know you do not want any changes or amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
To do this takes just a few minutes and we ask that you and all your `ohana members do it today.
Mahalo.
