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—f MAHEALANI KAMAU'U, the Education Committee Chair, has been a Hawaiian rights activist since the early 1970's. Currently, she serves as Executive Director of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm whieh represents Hawaiians in their legal assertions to land, natural resources and related entitlements. In 1990, she received the Hawaii State Bar Association's Liberty Bell award for her work with land rights. HENRY KAIPO KANAHĒLE was born and raised on Ni'ihau and is a mana leo -fluent in Hawaiian language, his mother tongue. He eame to O'ahu as a young boy for education and now resides there where he is enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Kaipo has traveled mueh of the world with tlie Navy and says that his journeys have made him more culturally aware of other peoples and the importance of our own Hawaiian community and Hawaiian values. replaced Dennis "Bumpy" Kanahele on the Council when he resigned in January of 1994. Well known in the Sovereignty Movement as the "kupuna on the Right to self-determination, she is Cultural Ambassador for the Independent and Sovereipn Nation-State of Hawai'i. She has workerl on loeal

represents Kaua'i on the Council. For almost a decade she has lived and worked on Kaua'i with special attention to the needs of the Hawaiian community. She is currently a Hawaiian Studies Kupuna with the Department of Education, chair of the Malae Heiau Presentation Committee and Vice President of the Alu Like Kaua'i Advisory Council. H.K. BRUSS KEPPELER, esq. is an attomey in private practice. He is the President of and represents the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs on the Council. Bruss has held various offices in many community organizations including Hui Na'auao, Moanalua Gardens Foundation, and the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He is also a member of the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center Advisory Council.

is the Council's Visioning Beyond the Legislative Mandate Committee Chair. Pōkā Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess, esq.) was an early advocate for Hawaiian sovereignty and has gained intemational recognition as an expert on the rights of indigenous peoples. He was selected by the United Nations to address the General Assembly on the opening day of the International Yearfor the World's Indigenous Peoples. He is currently in private practice and founder of the Institute for Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs. e-mail: plaenui@pixi.com WILLIAM KALANIULU MEHEULA, esq. js s lawyer with Jervis Winer & Meheula and is current President of the Native Hawaiian Bar Association. He served as the pro bono lead counsel in Ka'ai'ai v. Drake, the first successful Native Hawaiian tmst elaim litigation against the State of Hawai'i. That lawsuit played an important role in the state's $600 miliion settlement for the Hawaiian Homes program. A current lawsuit seeks to stop the state from selling ceded lands. MieiI AEL PUUIKI was bom and raised in Honolulu where he was a student of Punahou School. Though a "town boy" from Honolulu, Miehael is plenty country and has lived and worked in Hana, Maui for many years. He is very involved with the Hana community activities and his primary eoneem is to make it more possible for Hawaiian families to reclaim, re-occupy and to re-utilize ancestral family lands. ANN KUKAKINA NATHANIEL serves on many boards and commissions including the Hawaiian Homes commission and the Board of Directors of Alu Like, ine. She belongs to the Ahahui Ka'ahumanu Helu 'Ekolu and the Pana'ewa Hawaiian Homelands Community Association. A'O POHĀKU RODENHURST the Council's Convention Committee Chair is founder of Na Kupa o Kū Ho'one'enu'u Pono, a spiritual nation. She is a spirimal counselor and does ho'oponopono work througout the community. In addition to advocating self-determination for all Kanaka Maoli, A'oPōhākū is the mother of eleven children and an accomplished business owner and dress designer.

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