Clarity on Waimea Nui
My concern is only relative to political reality of Federal Recognition as a Indian Tribe and the reality of the Dawes Act.
I applaud many of the efforts of Waimea Nui to get their community moving ahead as a unit. I think things like helping their community member with things like farming projects/hothouses are very good and certainly needed. Their concern for member of their community without financial means and trying to find ways to assist them can only be good. I think it important that the Hawaiian Homes association make the State Department of Hawaiian Homes work for the benficiaries of the Trust and not for the benefit of the State at the expense of Hawaiians. I think it would be desireable that the differant associations work together to force the State to release, for lease, more of the lands that were set aside for Hawaiians through the Act.
My concern is only relative to political reality of Federal Recognition as a Indian Tribe and the reality of the Dawes Act.
I applaud many of the efforts of Waimea Nui to get their community moving ahead as a unit. I think things like helping their community member with things like farming projects/hothouses are very good and certainly needed. Their concern for member of their community without financial means and trying to find ways to assist them can only be good. I think it important that the Hawaiian Homes association make the State Department of Hawaiian Homes work for the benficiaries of the Trust and not for the benefit of the State at the expense of Hawaiians. I think it would be desireable that the differant associations work together to force the State to release, for lease, more of the lands that were set aside for Hawaiians through the Act.
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