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• We Are Who We Thought We Were: Congress’ Authority to Recognize a Native Hawaiian Polity United by Common Descent by Derek H. Kauanoe and Breann Swann Nuʻuhiwa

  In an attempt to fulfill the federal government’s moral imperative, the United States Congress has spent more than a decade considering several proposed versions of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act (colloquially referred to as the “Akaka Bill”), which seeks to restore a small measure of Native Hawaiian self-governing authority by providing a process for [...]

  Posted on May 11.12 to Akaka Bill, Hawaii, Native Hawaiian