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Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Tatibouet, Andre S. (chairperson) et al. (December 1991). A Broken Trust. The Hawaiian Homelands Program: Seventy Years of Failure of the Federal and State Governments to Protect the Civil Rights of Native Hawaiians. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1991—617-651/41065.
In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. [6] 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.
[6] In 1978 the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) was created to manage that portion of the ceded lands allotted to Hawaiian Homelands, advance the lifestyle of Native Hawaiians, preserve Hawaiian culture and protect Native Hawaiian rights.
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands on Saturday selected 52 beneficiaries to receive homestead leases at a Maui project where a developer is going to build homes for the lot lessees at the ...
Feb. 18—The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is returning, in a big way, to a practice of issuing unconventional land leases to beneficiaries on its homestead waitlist. The state ...
"This is the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Give the land, not the house." Commissioner Makai Freitas responded that DHHL's core focus is to put Hawaiians back on the land, but that rent-to ...
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has changed up how it plans to pay for and use a Kauai apartment complex that it aims to purchase for beneficiary use. Courtyards at Waipouli, the 82 ...
Questions about the legitimacy of the U.S. acquiring Hawaii through a joint resolution, rather than a treaty, were actively debated in Congress in 1898, and is the subject of ongoing debate. [2] Upon annexation, the Republic of Hawai‘i transferred approximately 1.8 million acres of Hawaiian Government and Crown Lands to the United States (U.S ...