April 04, 2006

This Land is our Land

Hawaiian sovereignty advocates like Bumpy Kanahele say their country was stolen form them when Queen Liluokalani surrendered to a squad of US Marines in 1893. They consider Hawii their country and America their visitor. In 1978 the state formed an independent office to create a Native Hawaiian state modeled largely after the Navajo nation of the Southwest. It would be established sometime in the last 1990s, possibly on undevelped land now held by the federal and state governments.