Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 2000 — Page 15 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

OHA poll results

Mahalo to all who completed the recent survey regarding the development of federal legislation defining the relationship between Native Hawaiians and the United States government. Here's how Ka Wai Ola readers registered their reactions to the statements posed:

1. Native Hawaiians are the indigenous people of Hawai'i. 91 percent agree 2 percent disagree 6 percent neither 2. Native Hawaiians should have politieal and trust relationship with the U.S. 85 percent agree 12 percent disagree 2 percent neither 3. Native Hawaiians have a right to self-determination under federal law. 87 percent agree 7 percent disagree 5 percent neither A few of you took the time to eomment. Here's a sampling: "My prayer: May ke Akua help our Hawaiian community toward righteousness in our own 'āina and stop all people who eonhnue to oppress us because of greed, dominance, prejudice. Mahalo for

all the aloha and energy for our cause to defend, protect and keep what God has given us special people, the Hawaiian Islands and all its beauty and traditions." "Kanaka maoli are subjects, of the Hawaiian Kingdom, nothing less." "I am a faithful reader of Ka Wai Ola but I have no Hawaiian koko. However, I am totally supportive of the above statements concerning the status of Hawai'i's indigenous people." "Question 2 needs an explanation." "Native Hawaiians have not less than 50 percent Hawaiian blood. P.S. The state was wrong to create OHA." "I live in Ventura, Calif. It saddened me when I read about the raw deal the Hawaiians were given in the Rice vs. Cayetano case. Good luek with the fight for Hawaiians and their identity and land rights" ■