Photo courtesy of Office of U.S. Senator DanielK. Akaka
Photo: Garett Kamemoto
Senator akaka's Staff Director for indian affairs visits OHA In Honolulu in April, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees greeted Loretta Tuell, who was recently appointed by U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka as Staff Director of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Raised on the Nez Perce reservation in north central Idaho, Tuell previously served on the Indian Affairs Committee as Counsel to former Chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye and is a former partner at Anderson Tuell LLP, an American Indianowned law firm in Washington, D.C. Tuell has extensive experience with the U.S. Interior Department, including serving as Co-Chair of the Joint Federal-Tribal Task Force in the development of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Consultation Policy, and was an appointee to the Federal Task force for Native Hawaiians. Pictured from left are OHA Chairperson Colette Machado, Trustees Boyd Mossman and Haunani Apoliona, Loretta Tuell, and Trustees John Waihe'e IV and Rowena Akana.
"Department of the Interior audit finds Hawaiian Homes Commision and the state Department of Hawaiian Homelands so disorganized it could take 50 years and $600 million to distribute homesteads to 7,000 applicants on the waiting list. "
ReplyDeleteRECENT> OHA Trustees reported a paltry 21,418 Hawaiians signed up for the Roll as of September 27, 2013 but an October 11, 2013 post on the Kana'iolowalu website “welcomes the addition of tens of thousands of Native Hawaiians whose ancestry have been confirmed by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to the Kana`iolowalu registry.” Kana`iolowalu now claims 101,000.
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