THE ANTI-ANNEXATION PETITIONS FROM THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROWN OF THE HAWAIIAN NATION ARE NOW ON LINE!

Also on the site are -
The Blount Report
Congressional Debates on the Hawai'i Organic Act
Anti-Annexation Protest Documents

Here's the address -

http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/hawaiian/annexation/annexation.html

Now the world can see the long supressed documentation of the resistance to the overthrow. Check it out today!

FOR THOSE CONSIDERING IMPROVING THE LIVES OF HAWAIIANS UNDER THE "SPECIAL TRUST RELATIONSHIP" THAT FEDERAL RECOGNITION WOULD BRING -

The comments below are culled from the Senate Indian Affairs Committee March 11, 2003 letter to the Budget Committee describing/justifying their budget request for fiscal year 2004.

Native people in the U.S. continue to rank at or near the bottom of nearly every social, health, and economic indicator, as compared to all other citizens. Natives continue to suffer the highest rates of unemployment and poverty, live in substandard housing, have poor health, receive an inadequate education, and contend with disintegrating social systems, all of which erode both the quality and dignity of life in Native communities. improving effectiveness in the Indian agencies is important but also recognizes that these agencies have witnessed a pattern of under-funding for decades and that, in part at least, increased resources are needed to alleviate the dire conditions in Native America and address the basic human needs Native people.

The educational attainment for Native youth is deficient compared with other groups in the U.S. For example, Native youth receive fewer high school and college degrees. An aggravating factor in educational achievement is the continued inability of the Federal government to ensure adequate, safe and clean educational facilities conducive to learning.

Despite a multi-year effort to reduce the queue of Indian school facilities in need of replacement, as of 2002, there remains a massive backlog in school facilities needs. the vast majority of Native economies are moribund and lack the basic physical infrastructure necessary to provide the basic amenities to their citizens or to provide the building blocks of business and economic development.

There is also unmet demand for electricity in Native communities: a recent Department of Energy report estimated that 14.2% of all Native homes on reservations have no access to electricity compared to just 1.4% of all U.S. households. With unemployment averaging 43% and poverty rampant, Native communities are particularly sensitive to high energy prices.

Given the near-complete absence of a private sector in most Native communities, 31.2 % of Natives live in poverty. In the U.S. today, the unemployment rate is 5.8%, whereas the rate for Natives is near 50% --- twice that of the national unemployment rate in the Great Depression. The earning capacity of Natives also lags behind that of other Americans: for every $100 earned by the average American family, an Indian family earns $62. The per capita income for Indians averages $8,284.

Most striking are the health statistics involving Native people: diabetes, tuberculosis, alcoholism, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and increasingly, AIDS, plague Native communities at rates far and above the incidence for other Americans.

Census data shows that 18% of all Native households are "severely crowded" as compared with 2% for nonnatives, with 90,000 Indian families homeless or under-housed. One of every five Indian houses lacks complete plumbing facilities. Because trust land is not available to secure mortgage financing, Natives rely to a greater degree on Federal housing financing.

Far too often, increases in Federal funds for the benefit of Natives have resulted in an expanded and unresponsive Federal bureaucracy rather than direct benefits to Native people.

As for Alaska Native water programs, the Committee is concerned that there has not been a request for an increase even though the EPA estimates that more than 20,000 homes in Native villages lack basic sanitation facilities.

The Committee is advised that the IHS 5 Year Priority Construction List contains $1.3 billion in badly needed projects awaiting construction in Indian communities.

Today, there are 1.3 law enforcement officers per 1,000 citizens in Indian country, compared to 2.9 law enforcement officers per 1,000 citizens in non-Indian communities.

Studies have documented that housing conditions in Native America are the worst in the nation, with 32.5% of Native Americans living in overcrowded or physically inadequate housing conditions, and 26% considered very-low income.

The current level of demonstrated need for housing stock in Native communities is $1.0 billion, up from $972 million from just a few years ago. This translates into an immediate need of at least 225,000 units, which does not include the estimated 52,000 units currently in need of renovation and 19,000 needing replacement.

The rural nature of most Native communities translates into higher than average housing costs. Many reservations lack basic infrastructure, with tribal governments being obliged to make large investments in water lines, sewage and sanitation facilities, and paved roads. responsibility and authority to provide safe and adequate water supply systems and sanitary sewage waste disposal systems in Indian homes.

Furthermore, the remote and isolated nature of these communities means more costly supplies, labor and shipping expenses. Access to financing — private sector capital and mortgage lending — is another barrier. Because trust land cannot be used as collateral, Native Americans have difficulty obtaining home mortgages. Even Native Americans with financial wherewithal have to rely upon Federal housing programs because of the lack of alternative financing in Indian country or because a limited private housing market makes housing prohibitively expensive.

In 1995, it was estimated that 53% of Indian homes on reservations did not have telephones, compared to only 5% of all other homes in the United States. Even in rural locations, only 9% of homes lacked telephones. In a 1999 survey conducted by the EDA, 13 of 48 tribes reported that they lacked "911" service and only 8 had a technology infrastructure or telecommunications plan.

Unemployment rates in Native communities continue to hover in the 43-45% range compared to the national rate of 6%.

Approximately 25,000 miles are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribes, the majority of which were rated to be in "poor condition." Although Indian Reservation Roads comprise 2.63% of the roads in the Federal Aid Highway program, Indian roads receive less than 1% of Federal road aid. As a result, these roads remain in poor and unsafe condition, leading to a fatality rate that is more than 4 times the national average. Inadequate transportation infrastructure has a negative impact on emergency and medical services, law enforcement response time and capabilities, and economic development efforts.

Comment: Rice v. Cayetano - Justice Department Evidence Contradicts Supreme Court Decision

In Response to The Honolulu Advertiser, Editorial Page John Goemans' February 27, 2000, Essay on Rice v. Cayetano

By Steven T. Newcomb, Director of the Indigenous Law Insitute and research fellow at the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics at the University of Colorado at Denver - March 13, 2000

John Goemans' February 27th op-ed essay about the recent Supreme Court decision in Rice, rests on his core belief that what "was annexed to the United States in 1898 was the Republic of Hawaii." He further clarified this point by referring to the "annexation of that foreign nation to the United States." Unfortunately for Mr. Goemans, however, these comments are premised upon an erroneous article of faith rather than on historical legal fact.

In 1988, the U.S. Justice Department issued an advisory memorandum to the Department of State, in which the unconstitutional and illegal nature of the 1898 Newlands Resolution is quite clearly spelled out. The memo explains that the Senate rejected an annexation treaty that had been negotiated by President McKinley with the "Republic of Hawaii." In an effort to by-pass the treaty process, Senator Newlands of Nevada sponsored a joint resolution of annexation.

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, issued at the time, explained that the Newlands Resolution relied on the annexation of Texas as a precedent. The Justice Department memo, however, points out a major difference between the case of Texas and that of Hawaii. Because Texas was acquired as a new state, the joint resolution annexing Texas relied on Congress' constitutional power to admit new states. For this reason, says the memo, "the method of annexing Texas did not constitute a proper precedent for the annexation of a land and people to be retained as a possession or in a territorial condition," namely, Hawaii.

The right to annex the Hawaiian Islands by treaty was not denied at the time of the Newlands Resolution, the memo says. But it was denied that annexation could be achieved in a constitutional manner by a simple legislative act. The memo quotes a constutional law scholar as observing that "only by means of treaties...can the relations" between nations "be governed," for "a legislative act is necessarily without extraterritorial force." A legislative act, such as a joint resolution, is "confined in its application to the territory of the" nation "by whose legislature it is enacted."

The Hawaiian Islands were foreign soil in 1898, some 2,100 miles beyond U.S. territory. Therefore, based on the international law principle of extraterritoriality, a U.S. joint resolution to annex Hawaii could not legally extend there. The 1988 memo fails to identify any provision in the U.S. Constitution, or any principle in international law, which could have provided a proper legal basis for the U.S. to acquire the Hawaiian Islands as a territory by joint resolution. In fact, the memo says that during the annexation debates Congressman Ball characterized the effort to annex Hawaii by joint resolution as "a deliberate attempt to do unlawfully that which can not be lawfully done."

As Mr. Goemans notes in his essay, the Supreme Court said last month in Rice that the United States Constitution "has become the heritage of all the citizens of Hawaii." If only this had been understood a generation ago, he complains, before the creation of a whole universe of unconstitutional laws--state and federal--began." But as the Justice Department memo documents, the issue of unconstitutionality cuts Goemans' rhetorical legs out from under him, and directly contradicts the Court's claim.

The Justice Department memo enables us to arrive at a number of conclusions highly disturbing to the status quo. No annexation of the Hawaiian Islands ever legally occurred in 1898. The "Territory of Hawaii" was not established in 1900, despite congressional legislation purporting the contrary. The Hawaiian statehood vote was a sham attempt to hide the historical illegality that began in 1893, with full U.S. complicity. And, the Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiians), virtually all of whom opposed U.S. annexation, and most of whom did not become citizens of the so-called Republic of Hawaii, have never been rightfully subject to the constitution of the United States

WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS?

The Akaka bill (S.344) and Department of Interior are not the answers, so what are? Can the United States really help us create a bright future for the Hawaiian Nation? What solutions will benefit all residents of Hawai’i?

Hawaiians want and deserve freedom just as much as US citizens do. They want freedom restored to Hawai’i. Some people say, “the illegal act of war that overthrew your Queen can’t be erased . . . like it or not, you’re all Americans now.” But, every day we see people around the world fighting for, and winning back their native and national rights. Their quest, and ours are totally legitimate and very real.

Like everyone else, Hawaiians want four basic things –

FREEDOM – The freedom to decide their own future for themselves. That “freedom” was taken away when the sovereign Nation of Hawai’i was overthrown in 1893. It was taken away again by illegal annexation to the United States in 1898. And, it was taken away a third time by the so-called statehood vote in 1959. According to international law, a new vote must to be taken that offers three options – 1) Independence, or 2) Free-Association or 3) Integration (nation within a nation.)

RIGHTS – The rights of the independent Nation of Hawai’i were never relinquished. The destruction and denial of these rights must cease. Everyone who descends from citizens of the Hawaiian Nation prior to 1893, Native Hawaiians and all others, are entitled to these rights.

IDENTITY – The political identity of Hawaiians must be acknowledged by the United States. Hawaiians will decide their own future, without interference by the US. Also, only those with any measure of indigenous blood may define Native Hawaiians. A blood quantum imposed by others is an unacceptable means to divide and conquer.

LAND BASE - Hawaiians love their country and lands just as much as US citizens love the US. Therefore, it is only fair and just to take into consideration the ramifications of the overthrow of a people who have never relinquished their rights or abandoned their desire to control their land and resources through their own representative government. Hawaiians want ALL their land back, not just some of it.

One of the biggest lies perpetuated today is that when Hawaiians achieve nationhood again it will be at the expense of everyone else. But no one will be kicked out; their businesses seized or their homes and property confiscated. Instead, everyone, Hawaiians and all others, will be citizens of the sovereign and independent Nation of Hawai’i. The Hawaiian Nation included people of many ethnic backgrounds that were loyal citizens before the illegal overthrow and it will be so again.

The truth is a sovereign Hawaiian nation will need the contributions and talents of all of its citizens to remain viable in the world. Hawaiians would be no better than the very supremacists that overthrew and occupied them were they to divide people by race. Hawaiians have always been inclusive, not exclusive.

How would this be accomplished politically given a civil war resulted the last time a state tried to leave the US?

Unlike the southern US states, the Kingdom of Hawai’i and its citizens never agreed to become part of the United States in the first place. Therefore a move for Hawai’i to secede from the US would be both unnecessary and inappropriate.

Much like removing the top coat of paint to reveal the one underneath, the US Congress, after consultation between Hawaiians and the US at the level of state to state, could simply enact a US federal law that dissolves the entity known as the “state government” in Hawai’i. What would be left in its place is what has existed all along anyway without interruption – the Nation of Hawai’i.

Only at that point, would it be appropriate for the citizens of Hawai’i to decide their future as it relates to a relationship with the United States. Those possibilities would include –

Integration with the US – Becoming a state again or a tribe of the US under federal recognition.

Free Association – Much like Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Independence - Did you know that when Ronald Reagan was president, one of the most conservative US presidents in recent times, his administration actually granted the Marshall Islands independence in 1986, which then lead to a free association relationship with the US?

Precedent for Hawaiian independence exists right now within US law as outlined above. There are no laws that exist today within the US to prevent the US federal government from dissolving a state government. It is only fear and ignorance that holds the status quo in place.

FIRST HAWAIIAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY TO BE UNVIELED TODAY!

Several local groups have been digitizing data and locating archived documents

By Rosemarie Bernardo

A vast collection of Hawaiian language, history and culture is just a click away on the Internet.

The beauty of this electronic library is that native Hawaiians all over the world have access to these materials that have up to this point been available in archives and libraries in Honolulu," said Mahealani Merryman, library director at Alu Like Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides social services to more than 17,000 native Hawaiians.

Officials are expected to present the first Hawaiian electronic library at the fifth Native Hawaiian Education Association Convention at Windward Community College today and tomorrow. Those interested in the Web site can go to http://ulukau.olelo.hawaii.edu/

For three years, organizations including the University of Hawaii at Hilo's College of Hawaiian Language, Hale Kuamo'o, Alu Like, Bishop Museum and Kamehameha Schools have been digitizing materials and locating archived documents to put on the Web site to help others learn and perpetuate the Hawaiian language and culture. More Hawaiian resources will be added.

"The goal of the Web site is to put all Hawaiian language archival documents" on the Web site, said Merryman.

The Web site was created in both Hawaiian and English and includes five sections: "The Legacy: Journal of Hawaiian Language Resources," a Hawaiian newspaper collection, the Hawaiian Bible, two Hawaiian dictionaries and a book called "Kamehameha and His Warrior Kekuhaupi'o."

The most popular resources on the Web site are two Hawaiian dictionaries -- the Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert dictionary and the Mamaka Kaiao dictionary -- that are cross-searchable.

Two issues from Volume 1 of "The Legacy: Journal of Hawaiian Language Resources" are available in three text versions: the original version, modern version and English-translated version. They provide information on historic government documents such as the constitution that was established in the reign of King Kamehameha III as well as Hawaiian stories, chants and other literature. The site also displays digital images of the original resource.

Moreover, the issues are available in an audio version so students or those interested in learning the Hawaiian language can hear the correct pronunciation of words.

The newspaper collection offers articles from five newspapers published between 1834 and 1948, while the book "Kamehameha and His Warrior Kekuhaupi'o" describes the early days of King Kamehameha I, the Hawaiian kingdom and the arrival of missionaries.

Officials plan to expand the newspaper and journal section of the Web site soon. All sections, with the exception of the newspaper collection and the Hawaiian Bible, are now available in Hawaiian and English. Officials said the Hawaiian Bible will be translated to English.

The Web site was first posted on the Internet in September and received 1,500 hits that month after officials presented the Web site at Kamehameha Schools and immersion schools throughout the state to teach students how to use it. The number of hits increased to 150,000 last month.

"It's really exciting. It overwhelms me. The response has been gratifying," said Kalena Silva, director for the College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Of the hits, 49 percent went to the Web site's Hawaiian text sections, said Silva. Officials expect the number of hits to jump once the general public learns of the Web site.

"In this age of technology, this is the best vehicle to date for perpetuating the Hawaiian language, literature and traditions and values of the host culture," said Winona Rubin, board chairwoman and acting chief executive officer of Alu Like. "This generation and future generations will benefit from this."

HERE'S HOW THE US GOVERNMENT, WITH THE HELP OF OHA AND THE CNHA , ARE PLANNING TO STEAL THE HAWAIIAN NATION - ONCE AND FOR ALL! -

By their own laws, the US cannot simply walk in and take Hawaiian land titles and erase the word "Royal" and replace it with "United States" Patent. They and the State of Hawai'i have never had "Clear Title" since Jan 17, 1893. They all know this...have known for a long time."

The only way the United States will ever be able to get clear title to the Hawaiian Islands is if Hawaiians give it to them.
This is why title to the Hawaiian islands never transferred to the United States by the Newlands resolution. The Newlands resolution relied on the treaty of Annexation from the republic of Hawai'i. But the Republic never owned title because the Kingdom of Hawai'i never gave it to them.

But now they gotta plan.....they are going to get Hawaiians to give title to them. How are they going to do that?

Here’s how.

They are going to register a majority of Hawaiians on a "roll."

They are going to draft governing documents to "re-organize the Hawaiian government".

They are going to get Hawaiians to elect officers to that government.

They are going to make sure those governing documents give the officers of the government the authority to give away title in negotiations.

They are going to get the majority of Hawaiians on the roll to vote for the new governing documents to reorganize the Hawaiian government.

That government authorized and approved by the majority of Hawaiians is going to sit down at the negotiating table with the United States and trade land title for cash and benefits.

Many people believe that only the Kingdom of Hawaii is authorized to give a way title to the Hawaiian Islands.... and they are correct, but only as long as the kingdom remains intact. If the majority of its subjects
revolt by forming a new government, the kingdom no longer exists. this is the effect of popular revolution.

The bill is only the bait....... the hook is the formation of a new government and the negotiations between the U.S. and the new government. As long as Hawaiians don't bite the bait...the hook is harmless....

The bill is not intended to settle any claims.... The bill dos not tell Hawaiians, but asks them to form a government that can and will extinguish Hawaiians claims.

ALOHA!

If this is your first visit to FREEHAWAII.INFO, welcome! FREEHAWAII.INO is dedicated to restoring independence and sovereignty to the Hawaiian Islands.

In 1893, the independant nation of Hawai'i was illegally overthrown by rich American sugar barons and the US marines.Then President Cleveland condemned it by calling it "an act of war."

Did you know?

OVER 98% OF ALL NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND MOST NON-NATIVE SUBJECTS OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM WERE FULLY OPPOSED TO THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROW.
Today, those decendants of the Nation carry forth the voices of their ancestors and still oppose the illegal occupation of the US government in Hawai'i.

Hawai'i was a free nation - but never free for the taking!

HERE'S TWO UPCOMING KAU INOA PRESENTATIONS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS WEEKEND BY OHA -

COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE!

HAYWARD, CA - Friday, 3/26 6-10pm Dinner served at 6pm
La Quinta Inn and Suites
20777 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA
Contact: Charlie St. Germain
510-317-6576

PALO ALTO, CA - Saturday, 3/27 10am-3pm Lunch served at noon
Sheraton Palo Alto
625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA
Contact: Laureen Kim
415-221-9310

IF YOU THINK THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF HAWAIIAN'S LAND AND MONEY UNDER FEDERAL RECOGNITION, READ THIS!

BY ROBERT GEHRKE, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON

The court-ordered shutdown of many of the Interior Department's Internet connections is depriving American Indian children of educational opportunities and preventing public input on land management decisions, a leading senator
and environmentalists say.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the department to pull the plug on many of its Internet connections because of security holes that could have jeopardized hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from Indian lands managed by the Interior Department.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said the shutdown has left students at schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs unable to connect to the Internet, depriving them of "solid computer skills" that are "imperative for American students."

"BIA students should be given all the resources available to help them succeed," Daschle wrote in a letter Friday to Interior Secretary Gale Norton. "This disruption, which, as I understand it, could last for an extended period of time, puts these students at a distinct disadvantage compared to their counterparts in other schools."

He urged Norton to seek a speedy remedy to the shutdown and the lawsuit over the department's mismanagement of the Indian money.

Nearly 50,000 students in more than 180 schools on 63 reservations in 23 states were affected by the shutdown, Interior spokesman Dan DuBray said. About 70 percent were in Arizona, New Mexico and the Dakotas.

Kristen Brengel, of the Wilderness Society, and Heidi McIntosh, attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, wrote to the Interior's Bureau of Land Management on Friday, noting that important information is inaccessible because of the Internet shutdown. They asked the agency to extend a comment period regarding its plans to turn over a road to Utah.

DuBray said the department shares the concerns raised by Daschle and environmental groups, and it is upset by the court-ordered shutdown.

"We are dismayed and also very concerned about the impact it is having not just on Indian Country, but on Bureau of Reclamation facilities and on those that are served by the Fish and Wildlife Service," he said.

DuBray said the department will either go back to Lamberth and ask permission to reconnect systems or ask the appeals court to intervene.

Keith Harper, an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, represents the Indian plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Interior. He said the agency has known since 2001 that it had Internet security problems, but refused to work with the court to fix them.

"We think it's tragic that Interior would play this cruel game of chicken with the lives of people and those they should be serving," Harper said. "They seem more concerned about disparaging the judge and creating a political crisis than doing the right thing."

Lamberth ordered the shutdown - the third in three years - after the Interior Department refused to sign sworn certifications that it had fixed security lapses identified in 2001 by the court's special master, Alan Balaran.

To test the security, Balaran repeatedly hacked into the Interior Department's system and created bogus accounts in his name. The accounting system processes hundreds of millions of dollars annually that is paid to American Indians for oil, gas, timber, and grazing activities on their land. The department is assigned to collect and disburse the funds.

A class-action lawsuit before Lamberth, filed on behalf of more than 300,000 Indians, alleges the department stole, lost or never collected tens of billions of dollars of the Indian royalties.

DAVID INGHAM, RENOWN AUTHORITY ON FEDERAL RECOGNITION, RESPONDS TO MISINFORMATION IN A MAUI NEWS EDITORIAL -

I'm always amazed that so many people who support the Akaka bill know so little of what it does and what it is . Your editorial "Hawaiians need status" is a case in point. First you correctly tell your readers the political and legal standing of Hawaiians that will come from the bill is permanent:

"The so-called Akaka Bill is the best hope for giving Native Hawaiians permanent, legal and political standing as an indigenous people within the framework of U.S. law."

But then , in the very next paragraph, imply to your readers that it isn't permanent:

" Native Hawaiians who oppose the Akaka Bill mistakenly believe it would prevent any future attempts at regaining sovereignty. It will not."

The United States has done anyone considering federal recognition under the terms of the bill a great service by spelling out exactly what the facts are regarding permanence :

Title 25 United States Code Chapter 3 subchapter 1 Section 71:

"No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power ...."

Then, you close your article with another inaccuracy. You imply to your readers that federal recognition will be the salvation of Hawaiian people and culture:

"The passage of the Akaka Bill in Congress would be a giant step toward assuring the preservation of the Hawaiian people and their culture..."

The historical record is clear that federal recognition is the single most debilitating factor for both people and their cultures existing under federal recognition. I recommend that next time you get your information from the horses mouth. The Indian Affairs committee puts out an annual budget request called the Views and estimates letter that spells out just how these peoples and cultures are doing. Please take the time to read the fiscal '05 request: http://indian.senate.gov/fy05views.pdf

Also, There is an exhaustive study that the United States Civil Rights Commission put out last year in July titled "A Quiet Crisis, Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country". Please take the time to read it: http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/na0703/na0731.pdf

Rhetoric on the subject of federal recognition, like your editorial, is cheap and abundant. However, in years of research I have been unable to find one objective report extolling the virtues of federal recognition. I would dearly love to see the information relied on in writing the editorial.

I suspect there is none.

There is no question Hawaiians are entitled to preference and other considerations because of acts against the Hawaiian race. But let's not add permanent domestic dependency of the heretofore multi ethnic Hawaiian nation and permanent federal wardship of Kanaka Maoli in order to secure the justice they are entitled to.

Malama Pono,

David Ingham
San Francisco Ca.

SERIOUS QUESTIONS TO ASK OHA WHEN THEY COME TO YOUR CITY WITH THEIR KAU INOA PRESENTATION -

If the Akaka Bill becomes law, will the Department of the Interior mismanage Hawaiian assets and resources as badly as it’s mismanaged the Native Americans?

Given that Native American tribes continue to sue the DOI for the loss and mismanagement of millions of acres and billions of dollars, is it wise, under federal recognition, to place Hawaiian assets in the same repository?

What about US Federal Judge Royce Lamberth, during the course of these lawsuits, repeatedly finding the DOI in contempt, incapable and unwilling to fulfill their fiscal responsibility?

On Monday, March 15th, 2004, the same judge ordered DOI computers switched off the Internet, for the third time, because security problems jeopardized Native American assets. Why voluntarily subject Hawaiian assets to the same risks?

To what extent will Hawaiian claims to land, resources, or independence be extinguished in order to achieve and maintain federal funding?

Did Alaska Natives cut a good deal when they agreed to relinquish 90% of their lands in exchange for federal recognition?

Please provide examples of how federal recognition has improved the statistics of just one indigenous community to equal those same statistics in the dominant culture?

Senator Dan Inouye addressing the National Congress of American Indians on Feb 25th, 2002 said, “ . . . I firmly believe that if this trend in the Court’s rulings continues, you may still have governments, but they will be governments in name only, because the exercise of your powers and authorities as sovereigns will have been stripped away . . .” Why does OHA support federal recognition when Senator Inouye himself admits this outcome?

OHA has paid $450,000 to Patton Boggs, LLP, to lobby Capitol Hill for federal recognition. During the Carter administration, the firm lobbied for unrestricted weapons sales to Guatemala. Mr. Boggs personally represented a group of Guatemala landowners to help fund death squads that exterminated over two hundred thousand indigenous people, and human rights activists. Why has OHA hired this firm with the blood of indigenous people on its hands?

DO YOU KNOW...

THE EIGHT PROBLEMS WITH FEDERAL RECOGNITION AND THE AKAKA BILL THAT THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND THE CNHA DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT?

Visit www.stopakaka.com today to find out!

BEWARE OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIR’S KAU INOA CAMPAIGN – BECAUSE :

Our Rights Are Being Stolen & OHA’s Driving The Getaway Car!

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a state bureaucracy that is loyal to the state first, not the Hawaiian people.

Knowing this, are you willing to participate with the state of Hawai`i in destroying the political, economic and cultural future of the Hawaiian people?

The US Supreme Court, per Rice v Cayetano, bars OHA from conducting an exclusively Hawaiian election process. OHA cannot legally facilitate an enrollment nor can they legitimately appoint a “puppet” interim advisory council.

Are you willing to be duped, by a bogus enrollment, into signing away our inherent rights for all future generations?

OHA is using Hawai`i Maoli as the enrollment repository to convince us they’re neutral and open to the will of the majority. Yet OHA is already squandering 7 million dollars of our money, without consulting us, to promote the dysfunctional federal recognition process!

Will you be one of those Hawaiians who will have to look back and admit they got suckered by OHA . . . again?

Those who support federal recognition would give up ultimate governing authority, forever, to the Secretary of the Interior and Congress. OHA, DHHL, the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, the AOHCC, and other federal recognitionists, will subject the Hawaiian people to the whims of all future US Presidents and their political appointees!

Do you want to be remembered as one of the first Hawaiians guilty of surrendering our children’s future?

Currently OHA is dealing with the state of Hawai’i to settle, for 10 cents on the dollar, claims against 2 million acres of Hawaiian crown and government “ceded” lands!

Will your signature be counted among those who supported the theft of our Hawaiian national assets?

JUST SAY A`OLE! - DENOUNCE OHA’S MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN! DO NOT SIGN ONTO KAU INOA!

GET THE FACTS FIRST . . . VISIT :

WWW.STOPAKAKA.COM & WWW.CNHAEXPOSED.ORG

ONE MORE REASON WHY FEDERAL RECOGNITION IS NOT THE WAY TO GO FOR HAWAI'I -

Department of Interior's Computers Ordered Shut Down Again

Washington (AP) - A federal judge on Monday once again ordered the Interior Department to pull the plug on most of its Internet connections, finding that the department still hasn't fixed computer security problems that could jeopardize millions of dollars in royalties for American Indians.

It is the third time that US District Judge Royce Lamberth has ordered the systems to be disconnected to protect oil, gas, timber and grazing royalties held in trust for the Indians.

JUST SAY "A'OLE! (NO!)" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS!

HAVE YOU CLICKED ON ONE OF THE LINKS TO THE RIGHT LATELY?

All four of the links on the upper right hand side of this page contain valuable information about the struggle for Hawaiian Independence.

Native Hawaiian Rights Info
Stop The Akaka Bill Info
Hawaiian Kingdom Info
CNHA Exposed

Take a moment today and visit one of the links. Then pass along and share the links with your friends all over the world.

Your Influence Counts - Use It!

DID WASHINGTON ADMIT IT STOLE HAWAI'I ?

US Department Of Justice Legal Opinion From October 4, 1988 -

"It is therefore unclear which constitutional power congress exercised when it aquired Hawai'i by joint resolution. Accordingly. it is doubtful that the aquisition of Hawai'i can serve as an appropriate precedent for a congressional assertion of sovereignty..."

VOICES OF TRUTH! A HAWAIIAN NATIONAL SPEAKS!

The Maui News
Letters to the Editor
Sunday, March 07, 2004

Hawaiians need to come together quickly

Isn't it funny how an illegal occupying nation like the United
States of America can hold a gun to our king's head, force him to
sign an illegal constitution, bring in the USS Boston with guns,
cannons, Marines with rifles and tons of ammunition, threaten our
queen and jail her illegally, and now tell our Hawaiian people who
qualifies as a Hawaiian and who doesn't?

The U.S. doesn't tell the native people of North America that they
have to have a blood quantum to qualify as an Indian or an Eskimo.
Maybe the reason is because they can stick these people on more snow
and sand than we could ever imagine, while we Hawaiians have a
limited amount of land and we sit in the middle of the Pacific. So
for colonization purposes and military dominance of the Pacific,
America treats us like dogs! And we Hawaiians keep fighting over who
will lead us.

It's time for Na Kupuna, Ka Lahui, the reinstated Hawaiian
government, the Living Nation, and all the other facets representing
the Hawaiians and the people of Hawaii to come together and have a
gathering and truly oni pa'a. This way our people can see how truly
strong we are, and see for themselves how great our numbers are, and
most importantly how we all have the same hunger in our eyes.

Wake up, Hawaii! OHA and Hawaiian Home Lands were manifestations of
the nation that occupies our Hawaii. Its main purpose is to drive a
wedge between our people. So while we keep fighting among each other
more land is disappearing, more aloha is vanishing, and Hawaii is
slowly going down the hale lua.

Hawaiian leaders, e ala mai! By the time you all stop fighting and
the dust clears, there will be nothing left. Aue! Aue! Aue!

Gaby Gouveia

Makawao

LOOKING FOR A GREAT READ? -

The Hawaii Island Journal has republished Don Gronning's article, which originally appeared in the Maui Time Weekly;

"Made in Hawai'i: a Hawaiian Nation Sovereignty movement a chaotic, authentic political struggle"

Here's Where To View It -
http://hawaiiislandjournal.com/stories/02a04a.htm

ALOHA!
If this is your first visit to FREEHAWAII.INFO, welcome! FREEHAWAII.INFO is dedicated to restoring independence and sovereignty to the Hawaiian Islands. In 1893, the independant nation of Hawai'i was illegally overthrown by rich American sugar barons and the US marines.Then President Cleveland condemned it by calling it "an act of war."

Did you know?
OVER 98% OF ALL NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND MOST NON-NATIVE SUBJECTS OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM WERE FULLY OPPOSED TO THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROW.

Today, those decendants of the Nation carry forth the voices of their ancestors and still oppose the illegal occupation of the US government in Hawai'i.

Independence is the only right to correct the wrongs!

PETITIONS UPDATE!

You Don't Have To Be Native Hawaiian To Register Your Opposition To Federal Recognition For Hawaiians!
Find The Petition(s) Below That Fit You And Visit The Site To Make Your Opposition Known!

There are four (4) petitions listed below. The target group is specified under each link. Some folks may qualify for all, while others may qualify for the last two only. Because of the American government's racist attitude of requiring a certain percentage of Kanaka Maoli blood for certain things, this is how it worked out.

OHA Beneficiaries (50% or more) Here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/exposure/petition.html
Qualifies for all petitions below as well.

Any Kanaka Maoli (Any percent) Here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/aolekaka/petition.html
Qualifies for all petitions below as well.

Anyone from Black to White Here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nofedrec/petition.html
Qualifies for petition below as well.

Anyone from Black to White Here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nogoaway/petition.html
Qualifies for petition above as well.

NOW, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!
TELL THE STATE AND FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS IN HAWAI'I AND WASHINGTON, DC THAT YOU REJECT THE AKAKA BILL!

Here's The Link To Click -
http://www.petitiononline.com/aolekaka/petition.html

Sign The Petition Now! Spread The Word! Tell Your Friends And Family!

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

AND FINALLY, HERE'S REASON #10 -

10. We must heed our own legacy of Hawaiian opposition to U.S. annexation that our kupuna left us when they submitted petitions that together represented the vast majority (over 38,000 signatures out of 40,000) of Hawaiian people in 1897. In those petitions, Hawaiians clearly stated their opposition to becoming part of the United States in any way, shape or form. Do you want to be counted among those Hawaiians who would desecrate the memory of their own `ohana and all of our ancestors for a few federal dollars?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #9 -

9. The same organizations that backed Freddie Rice are also going after American Indian tribal nations. This means that federal recognition is already a risky proposition given the right-wing tide in the USA with financing campaigns from groups like: Society for Color-Blind America, Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences, the United States Justice Foundation, the Center for Equal Opportunity, and the Pacific Legal Foundation. Do you want to be counted among Hawaiians who knowingly walked their people into a “relationship” with the United States that will be as troubling as what most of the hundreds of Native American tribes have been forced to deal with for hundreds of years?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #8 -

8. Supporting any bill for federal recognition will severely limit future assertions of Hawaiian sovereign self-determination by containing them within a U.S. federal framework. A self-governing model provided by the bill would be no more than a domestic dependent entity under the full and exclusive plenary power of Congress. Do you want to count yourself among those Hawaiians who are wreaking havoc on the struggle that future Hawaiians will have taken up in the event that federal recognition passes?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #7 -
7. This bill is designed to facilitate a land claims settlement for the nearly 2 million acres of “crown and government lands” renamed “ceded lands” when the US took control, and will transfer forever our legitimate claims to ownership over this land. Currently the Hawai’i state agency, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, is trying to make a deal with the state of Hawai’i to settle Hawaiian claims for these lands as soon as federal recognition happens. Do you want to be counted among the Hawaiians who are knowingly perpetrating the theft of the Hawaiian people’s national lands?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #6 -

6. There is no language in the Akaka Bill that addresses protections for Hawaiians from future lawsuits, nor is there anything in the bill that will increase or protect the federal monies Hawaiian non-profits are already receiving. Which means that Hawaiians are essentially agreeing to trade any potential for determining their own political path in the future, any claim to their lands and freedom, and for what? To maintain the status quo... which adds up to about 60-70 million federal dollars per year (less than 1% of the entire state budget!). Do you want to be counted among the Hawaiians who sold out their people for a few measly federal dollars?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #5 -

5. Hawaiians are being compelled by the state to support federal recognition to protect federal funds that currently go to non-profit groups and the state, but at the expense of the total independence claim. Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination are already inherent—as acknowledged in the U.S. Apology Resolution and, therefore, cannot be legislated by the United States. Do you want to be counted among the Hawaiians who are willing to give up their inherent rights?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #4 -

4. The Akaka Bill intentionally denies our inherent sovereignty as a people and is in essence only a transfer plan of ward-ship status in the name of the “trust relationship.” In other words, instead of being wards of the state, Hawaiian people would be considered wards of the federal government. Do you want to be counted among those Hawaiians who would willingly allow themselves to become wards of the federal government given the history of that government’s treatment of Native peoples in the US and throughout the Pacific?

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS THE TOP TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY "NO!" TO FEDERAL RECOGNITION, THE AKAKA BILL OR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS’ ATTEMPT TO ENROLL NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

HERE'S REASON #3 -

3. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a state agency whose loyalty is to the best interests of the state, not the Hawaiian people. OHA is subject to the laws that govern the US legal and judicial system. When the US Supreme Court ruled on Rice v Cayetano in 2000, OHA was told plainly that it cannot facilitate any sort of “election process” that is exclusive to Hawaiians. Therefore, conducting an “enrollment” that will be used to create an “election” of a puppet “governing entity” is itself illegal under the laws that OHA is bound to. Do you want to be counted among those Hawaiians who are knowingly participating with the state of Hawai`i in the illegal takeover of the Hawaiian people’s political future being perpetrated by OHA?