Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 10, 1 October 2014 — OHA renewing efforts to boost participation in Hawaiian nation building [ARTICLE]

OHA renewing efforts to boost participation in Hawaiian nation building

By Harold Nedd As the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission reopens its Official Roll, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is focused on widening Native Hawaiian participation in the nation-building process. A previous outreach in April 2014 added an estimated 10,000 participants, who signed up for the Official Native Hawaiian Roll after its deadline was extended to May 1. Among the contributing factors to this success were the 20 town hall-style meetings OHA held We look forward to working with them to ensure that this process of building a Hawaiian nation offers us the best of all possible worlds." — Ka Pouhana, Chief Executive Officer Kamana'opono Crabbe statewide as well as the volunteers it enlisted to canvass Hawaiian homestead communities. To accommodate as many Native Hawaiians as possible, the Roll Commission will focus on online registrations, and the Hawaiian Registry Program will focus on in-person registrations. OHA's Hawaiian Registry Program provides ancestry verification required for applicants of OHA resources such as loans and college scholarships. All names on OHA's Hawaiian Registry Programare allowed by law to be added to the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission's Official Roll of participants for the nation-building process. The renewed efforts eome more than a month after OHA trustees extended by six months the timetable for the nation-building process they previously committed to facilitate, allowing more time for registration and education to ensure meaningful Hawaiian community participation in the nation-building process. "We have been listening carefully to the voices of community members who are passionate about helping shape our future nahon for generations to eome," said OHA Ka Pouhana, Chief Executive

Officer Kamana'opono Crabbe. "We lookforward to working with themto ensure that this process of building a Hawaiian nahon offers us the best of all possible worlds." ■

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Native Hawaiians interested in registering with the Hawaiian Registry Program ean do so at any of 0HA's seven offices in Hawai'i: O'ahu 560 N. Nimitz Highway, Suite 200 Honolulu, Hl 96817 Phone: (808) 594-1888 Fax: (808) 594-1865 Maui 33 Lono Ave., Suite 480 Kahului, Hl 96732 Phone: (808) 873-3364 Fax: (808) 873-3361 Lāna'i P.O. Box 631413 Lāna'i City, Hl 96763 Phone: (808) 565-7930 Fax: (808) 565-7931 East Hawai'i (Hilo) 162-A Baker Ave. Hilo, Hl 96720-4869 Phone: (808) 920-6418 Fax: (808) 920-6421 West Hawai'i (Kona) 75-5706 Hanama Plaee, Suite 107 Kailua-Kona, Hl 96740 Phone: (808) 327-9525 Fax: (808) 327-9528 Kaua'i & Ni'ihau 4405 Kukui Grove St., Suite 103 Lihu'e, Hl 96766 Phone: (808) 241-3390 Fax: (808) 241-3508 Moloka'i P.O. Box 1717 Kaunakakai, Hl 96748 Phone: (808) 560-3611 Fax: (808) 560-3968

GOVERNANGE To restore pono and ea, Native Hawaiians will achieve self-gover-nanee, after whieh the assets of OHAwillhe transferred to the new governing entity.