Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 1, 1 January 1999 — WH0'S SCAMMING? [ARTICLE]

WH0'S SCAMMING?

Mililani Trask's elaim that Hawaiians overwhelmingly rejected the Native Hawaiian Vote has no foundation. Those who chose to participate chose overwhelmingly to support an eleehon of delegates to a convention. Mihlani and her followers called on people to boycott the vote and send their ballots to her for forwarding to the United Nations as proof of their objection. Mihlani, where are those ballots from your grand boycott? How many were sent to the U.N.? The voting process in whieh 30,000 people participated was overseen by the League of Women Voters, whieh onee vahdated Ka Lāhui's own eleehon, was open to outside observers, including Mililani, and was open to challenge in the court (but no one eame forward). The Native Hawaiian Convention is the most positive, open, unbiased process we have ever had addressing Native Hawaiian rights and sovereignty. We truly need a delegation of Hawaiians elected by Hawaiians to sit together and try to reason out proposals to be put to all Hawaiians. Such proposals could lead to a concrete foundation from whieh we move forward. If not this process, we are left with noth-

ing but an assortment of prime ministers, kings, queens, kia'āina, regents and other pretenders to self-created offices! Pōkā Laenui. Wai'anae

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Ka Leo Kaiaulu