Hui Pu

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Category: Native Hawaiians

Hui Pu, an umbrella group of organizations that oppose the Akaka bill.

From StopAkaka.com [1]:

HUI PU POSITION POINTS

1. The Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act (NHGRA), a.k.a. the Akaka bill debases our sovereign heritage and our right to self determination.

2. Hawaiian people have never acquiesced to the illegal US backed dethroning of our Queen and occupation of our country in 1893. The bill attempts to legalize this history of illegality.

3. 38,000 of our kupuna opposed and defeated US annexation in 1897. We must heed the legacy of our ancestors.

4. The Akaka bill attempts to empower the Secretary of the Interior to administer as the sovereign of the Hawaiian people. The Department of Interior has a long history of corruption and abuse of native peoples and their resources.

5. The Akaka bill enables the continued expansion of militarization through the federalization of our lands.

6. The Akaka bill contains a clause that says, "Any existing claims under Federal Law must be filed within 20 years," After that point, all claims are silenced.

7. The Akaka bill will not protect Hawaiians from future race-based attacks.

8. After holding only one public hearing on one island in which the majority of testimony was opposed, OHA continues to promote the bill as the true voice of the Hawaiian people.

9. We reject the Akaka bill because we refuse to sell out ourselves, our keiki, our aina and our resources.