Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 8, 1 August 2000 — Sovereignty [ARTICLE]

Sovereignty

Wheelchaired "Butch" Kekahu, native Hawaiian of impoverished dignity, led his squadron of ancient Hawaiian warriors' descendants to a Hawaiian "ti" party in Boston Harbor, like the eolonial revolutionists of the Dec. 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party, as patriotic native Hawaiians eelebrated the American Revolution of July 4, 1776, Mahalo nui loa "Butch" and Ronald "Bodie" Kaluhiokalani and i mua for your Aloha March of 20,000 Hawaiians in Washington Aug. 1 land 12, and the will-to-believe in the Declaration of Independence and ancient treaties of the United States and the Kingdom of Hawai'i. In historic summary follow the demand of President Grover Cleveland Dec. 18, 1893, that the Republiean Congress restore with "reparations and damages" the Kingdom of Hawai'i stolen from Queen Lili'uokalani; confirmation by President William Jefferson Clinton and the Republican Congress in an apology law of 1993, a centennial anniversary; and today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka with Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and Representatives Patsy Mink and Neil Abercrombie in such furtherance of the Native Hawaiian sovereignty. The glory of the ancient Kingdom of Hawai'i in the 2000 millennium is the magnificent statue of King Kamehameha the Great facing General George Washington in the eongressional rotunda, demolishing any hesitancy of our uniqueness in the American constitutional democracy. Arthur K. Trask former territorial judge Anahola