KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JULY 2025
Who “Owns” the Lands of Hawaii?
A recent LA Times article about the difficulty the US military is having in trying to renew leases of lands used for live training of combat troops is making this more than a local issue over a lease. The leasing negotiations is about to completely expose the fraud of the United States’ and the State of Hawaii’s claim to the lands of the Hawaiian Islands.
It shows how far we've come in seeing ourselves as a nation that is defined by the laws originating from the Hawaiian Kingdom, not the laws imposed by the United States.
The article shows how the "State of Hawaii" (the occupier's puppet government) sides with the Hawaiian people in rejecting the US military's final EIS statement, a crucial component to renewing the lease of 132,000 acres of land designated as the Pōhakuloa Training Area. This is another watershed case (like Kahoʻolawe, Mauna Kea, Mākua Valley, etc.), in which the State of Hawaii's position has turned in our (Native Hawaiian/Hawaiian nationals) favor.
And we haven't yet brought into play (but soon will) the Big Question: Who really owns the lands of Hawaii? Certainly not the usurper, the United States, or its puppet government, the State of Hawaii...
I recently returned from another two weeks at the UN in Geneva where, among other things, the question of who owns the lands in Hawaii has not only piqued the interest of several representatives of foreign nations, it is motivating them to actively seek ways that they can help us raise this issue at the international level.
What really triggered their interest was learning that as part of the smoke and mirrors tactics of the U.S., the enabling documents of the 1898 “Annexation”, the 1900 “Organic Act" (for the administration of the Territory of Hawaiʻi), and the 1959 "US Statehood Act", do not contain specifications or identification of exactly what lands were to be included in either the "US Territory of Hawaii" or the "US State of Hawaii".
Instead, through a tricky word-salad, the “description” of the "US Territory of Hawaii" appears to, but does not actually specify the boundaries or the physical content (what islands, reefs, shoals, connecting waters) comprised the "US Territory of Hawaii".
Then later, in 1959, the so-called physical description of the "US State of Hawaii" in essence said, all that was in the Territory of Hawaii (which was nothing), except for certain islands like Johnston and Palmyra and Kingman Reef, etc. comprise the State of Hawaii. It specifies what is excluded but fails to cite what is included.
So, the official description of what lands and other physical features that the US specifies are in the US State of Hawaii is… absolutely nothing!
What is astounding to the countries that are just now learning about this international shell-game is how the United States was able to get away with this con for so long. Better yet, these countries are now becoming more motivated than ever to help us get our country back.
Aloha ʻĀina —
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.
The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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