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In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. [8] In 1921, in order to make amends for injustices associated with the overthrow and annexation, the US created the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act which set aside 200,000 acres of land for the use of homelands for Native Hawaiians of 50% blood quantum or more.
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.
From 2016 to 2020, he served in the Hawaii Senate from the 1st District. In 2024, he was elected as a trustee to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with fellow board members electing him as chair. [1] Kahele is a member of the Democratic Party [2] [3] and the son of the late Hawaii Senate member Gil Kahele.
Jul. 30—The first request for an exemption from the state's new anti-nepotism law—submitted by Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Brickwood Galuteria, who supervises his daughter—has been ...
Jan. 24—The state Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a fine of more than $23,000 imposed on former Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee Rowena Akana for violations of the state ethics code.
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.
Apr. 18—Hawaii lawmakers are facing a decision on whether to give the Office of Hawaiian Affairs more income from ceded lands that the agency is owed. A bill that the House of Representatives ...
Beginning in 1978, Hawaii held statewide elections for the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), an agency charged with disbursing particular funds and benefits to those who may be classified as "Native Hawaiians" ("any descendant of not less than one-half part of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778"), or those who may be classified simply as "Hawaiian" ("any ...