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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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"OH NO! - IS FED WRECK BACK??"
You Probably Saw The Rumors On Social Media.
Or Maybe The Statement From The US Department Of Interior.
So Is The US Federal Recognition Threat Back For Hawai`i?
Watch This For The Real Answer About What Itʻs All About.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2021
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"FED WRECKʻS BACK & GUESS WHOʻS PUSHING IT?"
Federal Recognition Is Rearing Itʻs Ugly Head Again.
Thatʻs Because Of One Specific Person.
But Wait, Because Thereʻs An Unexpected Turn Of Events.
Watch This To See What It Is & Why Thereʻs A Happy Ending.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
SAY "NO!" TO FED WRECK & TURNING HAWAIIANS INTO A TRIBE BY SIGNING THIS PETITION
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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"KEEP YOUR EYES ON THESE THREE"
Donʻt Take Your Eyes Off These Three Guys.
Theyʻre The Second Group We Warned You About.
Donʻt Take What Theyʻre Planning To Dangle In Front Of You.
Watch This To See Who They Are & What Theyʻre Really Up To.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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"WHO ARE THE FED WRECK SECRET AGENTS?"
Theyʻre Waiting In The Wings To Spring Into Action.
Two Different Groups Of People Who Support US Federal Recognition.
This Week We Tell You Who One Group Is & Next Week Weʻll Reveal The Second.
Watch Our Report So Youʻll Know Whoʻs Out To Classify Hawaiians As A US Tribe.
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Saturday, April 17, 2021
NATIVE HAWAIIANS TO DEB HAALAND - ʻWEʻRE NOT NATIVE AMERICANSʻ
Indian Country Today - April 12, 2021 - By Anne Keala Kelly
Aloha Secretary Haaland, and congratulations on your historic, groundbreaking position at the Department of Interior as the first Native American to hold a cabinet seat. Now that we have dispensed with the pleasantries, allow me to introduce myself. I am Kanaka Maoli, and I’m writing to remind you that the United States of America has been holding the Hawaiian Nation hostage for over a century. So, please don’t explore ways to further the cover-up by paying us off or racializing us into becoming a tribe. We want to exercise our rights through self-determination, not American pre-determination.”
Okay, that isn’t how Hawaiian activist, Kealoha Pisciotta, actually worded her letter to the new head of the Department of Interior. But that might be how it came across when Haaland finished reading it.
My irreverent humor aside, Pisciotta’s letter is an important communication for Haaland to receive for some really good reasons, one being that it advocates for Hawaiian rights, something that has been denied us since the U.S. takeover. Another is that it came from a Hawaiian leader who is not employed by the state or federal government. There is a line between Natives who work for the government and those who do not.
Haaland is on the other side of that line, and boy does she have her work cut out for her.
She now runs an agency that is one-part protection, and three parts exploitation and destruction. The DOI has been the delivery system for some really nasty laws and policies that have been anti-Native and anti-Mother Earth.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (previously known as Office of Indian Affairs, that was originally part of the War Department), the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and nine other land and resource-related bureaus are DOI’s responsibility. Most federal leasing of land and water for extraction by the energy industry is through the DOI. And now that Americans are ravenous for green-renewable energy, lithium is the new gold and mining is a priority. Elon Musk and other billionaires are enormously grateful, but I digress.
Many Natives, myself included, hope that Haaland, being a Native woman, can take some of the edge off that bloody blade white people have been carving up Turtle Island with since the Mayflower docked.
But Hawaiians, as a people, need to keep expectations real. Deb Haaland is eighth in line to the oval. She is a key player in the American business of government, not the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination, which is the focus of Pisciotta’s letter.
Sent to Haaland on behalf of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, the Mauna Kea Hui and the Mauna Kea ‘Aelike/Consensus Building Ohana, three groups composed of cultural practitioners and activists, Pisciotta also cc’d some heavies in the letter. At the top of that list are President Biden and the UN’s Secretary-General. Talk about putting it out there.
The letter highlights some often-cited historical wrongs committed by the U.S. against Hawaiians, starting with the U.S. military coup of 1893 that ousted Queen Liliuokalani.
Then it winds its way to, “You may recall the mass protests that have taken place in recent years.” And don’t forget the 2014 DOI hearings when “thousands of Hawaiians testified in person and were opposed to becoming a tribe, like our kupuna who signed the 1897 [Ku‘e] petitions were opposed to becoming American.”
To further emphasize what the U.S. pretends not to know, Pisciotta added a truth-bomb cherry to that sundae, with “We, the Hawaiian people, have never consented to the U.S. occupation of our beloved country.”
But Pisciotta’s motivation for presenting Haaland with the skinny version of “Hawaiian Sovereignty 101” is as important as the letter’s content. She wrote it because Congressman Kai Kahele, who was sworn into office with his hand on Senator Akaka’s bible, said that he and Congressman Ed Case will push for reparations.
One can only speculate how absurd the dollar amount will be when geniuses in DC calculate “fair” compensation for the theft of our nation-state, our land, our rights and our dignity. And any deal would reanimate the Akaka Bill or manufacture something else like it, resulting in pseudo federal recognition of Hawaiians, and more false justification for keeping the Hawaiian nation in chains.
Although reparations aren’t the same as a lawsuit, the idea of paying off Hawaiians brings to mind the pitiful settlement from Eloise Cobell’s monumental case against the DOI.
When it comes to Indigenous peoples, the American tradition has been to withhold as much justice as possible, and then lie about it. With regard to Hawaiians, the goal of the U.S. hasn’t changed one iota since the first criminal act it perpetrated in 1893. And it is not likely to change now because a new Hawaiian is in congress or a Laguna-Pueblo is running the DOI.
Pisciotta and others are standing at the frontline in advance of another attempt by the U.S. to extend generations of injustice into an eternity of injustice.
Collectively, as a force of one, those Hawaiians are proof that we don’t have to wait for, and then react to, the American agenda.
We can assess the threat and acknowledge the urgency without waiting for validation from the state or the media. We can practice self-determination now, use the wisdom of our experience and take evasive action before the axe is swung.
Hawaiians have been on the receiving end of nearly 130 years of American aggression. There have been some very dark times, and there will likely be more. But we have the mana of ancestral memory to draw from. We can look at the horizon with eyes and minds that hold generations of knowledge about the winds and the currents. Our people used to navigate by the stars from the deck of a canoe in the middle of the largest ocean on earth with no canned food or electronic gadgetry. And the darker the night the better they could see their way.
That’s us guys. We determine our own fate. We are the navigators.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
MAUNA KEA HUI TO US DEPT. OF INTERIOR - "HAWAIIANS ARE NOT A TRIBE"
SIGN THE PETITION - HawaiiansAreNotATribe.com
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Saturday, April 03, 2021
Friday, April 02, 2021
Thursday, April 01, 2021
A CLEVER MISREPRESENTATION - ROBIN DANNERʻS "TREAT HAWAIIANS LIKE INDIANS" LETTER TO THE DOI - SEEN YESTERDAY ON FREE HAWAI`I TV
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
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"ROBIN DANNERʻS SNEAKY FED WRECK MOVE"
Watch Out, Because Robin Dannerʻs Back At It Again.
In A Stunning Letter To The US Dept. Of Interior, She Claims That Hawaiians Are The Same As American Indian Tribes.
Worse & Without Even Asking, Sheʻs Also Claiming To Speak For You.
Watch This To Discover Robinʻs Sneaky Plan To Inch Hawaiians Closer To Fed Wreck.
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Tuesday, March 09, 2021
ARE SCHATZ & KAHELE PLOTTING NEW AKAKA BILL?
Hawai`i Free Press - March 4, 2021
From The UK Guardian -
…The Biden administration is poised to settle this problem by federally recognizing a Native Hawaiian government in a similar process to that which it does American Indian tribes….
The situation in US Congress is not promising. The Democratic-controlled US Congress looks poised to complete the colonial settlement. Senator Brian Schatz from Hawai`i is now the chairman of the Senate’s Indian affairs committee, and in his first meeting hosted discussion about federal recognition. His position is one that the Native Hawaiian senator Daniel Akaka previously held while advocating for the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act. The Akaka Bill, as it was called, suggested that it could reconcile US participation in illegally overthrowing the Hawaiian Kingdom’s government.
While Democrats largely support federal recognition – as reconciliation for past harms in Hawai`i – Republicans grumble that Native Hawaiians aren’t American Indians and aren’t, therefore, eligible for tribal governance. The question “Are Hawaiians Indians?” continues to be debated, exasperating conservatives and liberals alike, yet it exposes the manipulation of federal Indian law and policy in an ongoing process to settle US possession of Hawai`i.
The thief returns to the scene of the crime asking for forgiveness but refusing to return what they stole.
Recently elected Native Hawaiian US representative Kai Kahele, like Senator Schatz, supports federal recognition, despite his own community’s opposition. Congressman Kahele is being courted by Representative Deb Haaland – who affirmed a commitment to Native Hawaiian issues during her Senate confirmation hearing – to take over her seat as co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus. With the posturing of Schatz and Kahele, the political landscape is ripening for a new bill to come to fruition….
Saturday, February 27, 2021
NO TO FED WRECK - FREE HAWAI`I
Over the pat 20 years, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs squandered at least $30 million of beneficiaries' money trying to get "Federal Recognition" — to make Native Hawaiians into American Indian tribe.
They failed miserably because we said NO!
But a couple of days ago, Trustee Hulu Lindsey, chair of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, addressed the US Senate Indian Affairs Committee (chaired by Sen. Brian Schatz) indicating that OHA is again hoping to pursue Fed Rec.
This is disappointing!
You'd think that after 20 years, she'd realize Hawaiians don't want Fed Rec.
For 12 years we fought (and beat) the Akaka Bill in Congress; then we battled Kanai'iolowalu, Na'i Aupuni and the Dept. of Interior schemes to a standstill.
Let's send a message to OHA: A'ole Fed Rec... We don't want to be, an American Indian Tribe... We want our country back...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
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LOOK WHAT HAPPENED AT THE US SENATE
HAWAIIANS HAVE A FRONT ROW SEAT AT THE US SENATE
Honolulu Civil Beat - February 24, 2021
On Wednesday, Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz held his first hearing as chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee to ask Native community leaders about what Congress can do for them.
Among the guests who were invited to testify was Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chairwoman Carmen Hulu Lindsey, who urged the committee to pass legislation to put Native Hawaiians on the same footing as their Indigenous peers throughout the country.
“The federal trust responsibility may look different from tribe to tribe and from community to community, but that responsibility is owed by the federal government to all Native Americans,” Lindsey said.
“Unfortunately for the past two decades executive orders requiring federal agencies to consult with Native Americans have left Native Hawaiians out. To address this OHA urges the passage of legislation extending consultation by the federal government to Native Hawaiians.”
She also pressed for more federal dollars for Native Hawaiian health care, education and economic development.
Native Hawaiians are not recognized by the U.S. government as their own sovereign entity, which leaves them as a whole unable to have a government-to-government relationship in the same manner as American Indian tribes.
The lack of federal recognition can also mean Native Hawaiians are not eligible for certain federal funds that can be directed to tribal entities, which occurred when Congress first passed the CARES Act to address the coronavirus pandemic.
Some are hopeful that with President Joe Biden in the White House, federal recognition will once again be back on the table, although it will be up to the Native Hawaiians themselves to organize around a path forward since one already exists in federal rules.