Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 15, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1998 — Page 19 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Palapala 'Aelike

Nearly one thousand Native Hawaiians joined their hearts and minds to write the "Palapala 'Aelike." The kūpuna and 'ōpio, citizens of the De Jure Kingdom of Hawai'i and Ka Lāhui, kūmū hula and Christian ministers ~ coming together and finding agreement. It hasn't heen easy. There has heen anger and hurt. Some have walked away. But a powerful voice is emerging — speaking from the soul of a people onee described as a dying race. Proclaiming ~ we are ahve, we are proud and we are Native Hawaiian. I kū mau mau! Pull together!

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Ho'omalu Chair Kina'u Kamali'i anel Vice Chair Creignton Mat- i. toon (left), Luis Hanga (right), anel Miniwaka, Kalama Niheu anel Nalani Minton (below) have participated in the drafting of the Palapala 'Aelike.

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VJe Are Who We Were For two thousand years the kanaka maoli governed and exercised sovereignty over the Hawaiian lslands. No matter who was the ruling \ ali'i or whether constitutions and laws were \ written or not ~ the root source of the power \ exercised by government did not change. \ Sovereignty isdrawnfrom: \ ^ NāAkua, the sacred source \ of all authority; \ \ H Nāmaka'āīnana, the people \ and their loyalty; and I! Na'auao, the values of a shared culture. The illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i in 1893 and the / wrongful annexation of 1898 / destroyed the Hawaiian government. / These actions could not and did not / extinguish the spirituality, culture and / sovereignty inherent in the Native / Hawaiian people. / For sovereignty to be expressed through the creation of a government, we must decide a self-determination process - a way or meehanism to formally choose and describe our selfgovernment.