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The board shall have the power to exercise control over the Office of Hawaiian Affairs through its executive officer, the administrator of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the board. [11] On January 30, 1989 the board of trustees agreed that salaries should be consistent with other departments of the State of Hawaii. [15]
Peter Apo is a Trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and President of The Peter Apo Company, LLC, a cultural tourism consulting firm. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is also an accomplished musician in the folk and Hawaiian music genres, with a career stretching back to the early 1960s.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs. All nine members of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees are elected in nonpartisan statewide contests. Trustees are elected to a four-year term by general election of Hawaii registered voters. The islands of Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Hawai‘i each have one representative trustee; the rest serve in ...
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Mililani Trask worked for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from 1998 to 2000 as a Trustee at Large. After the passage of the Rice Decision in 2000 gave non-Hawaiians voting access in OHA elections, Mililani lost her bid for reelection despite the fact that she won the 1998 election by a previously unprecedented number of votes cast by Hawaiians since the formation of OHA in 1978.
In office January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023: Preceded by: Tulsi Gabbard: Succeeded by: Jill Tokuda: Member of the Hawaii Senate from the 1st district; In office February 17, 2016 – December 16, 2020: Preceded by: Gil Kahele: Succeeded by: Laura Acasio: Member of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees
S. Haunani Apoliona is a native Hawaiian banker, musician, and activist for the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.. In 1997, Apoliona was sworn-in to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees and served as its chairperson from 2000 to 2010, as the longest serving Board Chairperson in OHA’s thirty-four year history.
Between 1990 and 2000, those people identifying as Native Hawaiian had grown by 90,000 additional people, while the number of those identifying as pure Hawaiian had declined to under 10,000. [ 6 ] Senator Daniel Akaka sponsored a bill in 2009 entitled the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 (S1011/HR2314) which would create ...