UNDER THE RADAR

Panel passes Akaka Bill

A measure extending federal recognition to native Hawaiians advances in the Senate

By B.J. Reyes

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 08, 2011

A companion bill has been introduced in the House.

COULD IT BE ????

Hal Kahikina: Claimed to be Sen. Akaka's nephew. Would run into him in my travels, liked to talk and ask questions. Little did I know.

1. Hal Kahikina, age 63

Name/Aliases

Hal Kahikina

Harold Kahikina
Harold Kahikini

Has lived in

South San Francisco, CA
Apo, APWahiawa, HI
Honolulu, HI

State Department of Health Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board Member:

Hal Kahikina
 He was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a civil servant.

                                                                    http://bit.ly/HGGdPm

THE COMPANION

	Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2011 H.R. 1250:
112th Congress 2011-2012

3/30/2011--Introduced.

Full Version: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1250/text

Summary:  Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2011 - Establishes the U.S. Office for Native Hawaiian Relations within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. Establishes the Native Hawaiian Interagency Coordinating Group. Recognizes the right of the qualified Native Hawaiian constituents to reorganize the single Native Hawaiian governing entity to provide for their common welfare and to adopt appropriate organic governing documents. Establishes a Commission to: (1) prepare and maintain a roll of such constituents, and (2) certify that individuals on the roll meet the definition of qualified Native Hawaiian. Outlines the process for the reorganization, which includes forming a Native Hawaiian Interim Governing Council. Reaffirms the special political and legal relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people upon the Secretary's approval of the organic governing documents and the installation of officers elected to the Native Hawaiian governing entity. Extends federal recognition to the governing entity as the representative sovereign governing body of the Native Hawaiian people. Authorizes the United States, upon the reaffirmation of such political and legal relationship, together with the state of Hawaii, to enter into negotiations with the governing entity for an agreement addressing matters that include: (1) land, natural resource, and asset transfers; (2) governing powers and responsibilities; and (3) grievances. Prohibits Native Hawaiians or their governing entity from conducting gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of federal law.

A different view: http://www.cnhaexposed.org/

NOT THAT THULE

 Photo courtesy of Office of U.S. Senator DanielK. Akaka

 

In April, OHA Trustees and administration met with U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka in Washington, D.C. From left are: OHA Chief Operating Officer Richard Pezzulo, Chief Advocate Esther Kia'a¯ina, CEO Clyde W. Na¯mu'o, Senator Akaka, OHA Trustee and Vice Chair Boyd Mossman, Chairperson Colette Machado and Tim Johnson of OHA's D.C. Bureau. -

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.