Pdfs from the Honolulu Advertiser b1 & b2, and videos submitted on YouTube by Pono of the Dec. 26, 2008 protest. Protesting thie administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court over the issue of “ceded” lands has to be one of the larger issues facing Native Hawaiians today. What is at risk here is at the [...]

go to original  By Jon M. Van Dyke and Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie    In January 2008, our Hawai’i Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, authored by Chief Justice Ronald Moon, holding that the state is prohibited from selling or transferring any of the 1.2 million acres of “ceded” lands until the unrelinquished claims of Native [...]

Around 5pm (PT), Thursday, Dec 11, Ah Quon McElrath passed away. She was 92. Chris Conybeare, who had visited with her earlier that day, texted me. He had been doing a series of oral histories on her life. Her last interview by Dan Boylan was featured in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin’s Midweek last Wednesday and is [...]

Regarding an article in Saturday’s Advertiser, “State Taking New Tack in Ceded-Lands Battle.” Gordon Pang writes of the appeal by the State of Hawai’i to the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of ceded lands, “Bennett’s…brief cites the Newlands Resolution, an 1898 Congressional act that led to Hawai’i’s annexation and the establishment of Hawai’i as [...]