This letter has come from the King of Hawai'i, Edmund Keli'i Silva Jr. He is quite rightly taking exception to the machinations of certain organisations that are trying to coerce the Federal Government into using inappropriate legislation intended for the indian tribal groups (exclusively on the US mainland) apparently much against the interests of all Hawai'ians. If enacted, this would give new and very much unwanted (from a Hawai'i perspective) powers to a small, federally connected group. The letter is written by the King to alert the Hawai'ian population of the serious threat they are now under.
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Proclamation
A Threat to Our Nation
My Beloved People of our Kingdom of Hawai’i; I am taking this precious moment to address you as
King regarding a serious threat to the future of our Nation. Powerful forces are uniting to destroy our way
of life forever and deny our rightful place in the community of independent nations. Hear my words and
decide for yourself what is pono, for you and for all of us. If you decide to follow those who seek to deny
our destiny, then allow me to bless you for your decision. If you decide to unite with me, then let us
together go forward for the greatest good that defines our character and willingness to stand up for that
which is pono. ‘Aloha Ke Akua’
There is a document now circulating titled “Update on SCHHA & Roll Commission Strategy for
Hawaiian Nation - For Your Eyes Only.” What this document reveals is a conspiracy to steal the
Hawaiian nation yet again.
The strategy referred to is to have the President of the United States recognize one group of Hawaiians as
an Indian Nation. The strategy is being promoted by something called the Sovereign Council of
Hawaiian Homelands Assembly (SCHHA) and the Danner sisters, who have been working in concert
with Senator Inouye and others to create the equivalent of what the Akaka Bill sought to achieve –
reduction of the Hawaiian Nation to a subordinate body of limited autonomy within the United States.
Once established as an Indian Nation, this group would seek the transfer of funds held by the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and presumably any future income coming to OHA. They would not, however,
seek any funds or land from the United States.
In a recent email, Kamaki Kanahele, Chair of SCHHA, denies the legitimacy of the document and alleges
that the document was prepared as a “typical pilau tactic of some activist.”
He also states that he finds “the allegations insulting and below the dignity of all SCHHA members to
even waste our time in addressing.”
There is one problem with this vociferous denial. Clyde Namuo, retired CEO of OHA and current
volunteer with the Roll Commission, has confirmed all the major components of the plan laid out in the
supposedly fabricated document.http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/01/09/14361-federal-recognition-for-native-hawaiians-could-come-via-interior-dept/
The only difference in the two versions of the plan is that the SCHHA memorandum calls for President
Obama to act by executive order and Clyde Manuo believes that there are historical precedents allowing the United States Interior Department to acknowledge Hawaiians as Indians, even though the applicable regulations appear to foreclose such an acknowledgement.
Other than that detail, the plans set forth in the memorandum and by Clyde Namuo are identical.
OHA is giving up on their efforts to pass the Akaka Bill in the United States Congress. The “retired” CEO of OHA is now volunteering with the Roll Commission to create the list of people who will form the “Native Hawaiian” governing entity that will then apply to have their status changed from Native
Hawaiian to Indian.
At its core, this new scheme is the same “divide and conquer” tactic used in the Akaka Bill. That bill would have divided people of pre-contact Hawaiian ancestry from the other citizens of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, giving only the first group some land, funding, and limited autonomy and nothing to the other
subjects of the Kingdom, who also lost their nation.
This new scheme encourages even greater division, suggesting that the entity created by the OHA/Roll Commission/SCHHA/ Danner sisters etc. would simply be the first group to be recognized as an Indian Nation. Under their plan, “any other Sovereign group can also apply” to be recognized and “there can be many Hawaiian nations.” Their plan is a formula for dividing Kanakas against each other and laying the foundation for decades of conflict between the various “Indian” nations.
There is only one Hawaiian nation. I have restored that nation.
That some people decide to continue playing word games with the occupying power cannot distract from that reality. They are perfectly prepared to renounce any claims the Kingdom might have to reparations or its lands in return for the paltry funds held by OHA. This position demonstrates that their goal is to betray our ancestors, who have waited patiently for the wrong to be corrected, by destroying the Kingdom and to sell our right to be an independent nation for pieces of silver.
One has the feeling that the handful of people in the Committee of Safety that overthrew the Kingdom government with the backing of the United States Minister and United States Marines have reincarnated to pursue a scenario in which President Obama plays the role of Minister Stevens to back a handful of greedy people seeking to destroy the Hawaiian Nation for their personal profit.
The OHA strategy of pursuing the Akaka Bill spent ten years and millions of dollars leading people into a dead end canyon. Now OHA is offering to repeat that mistake. An examination of the applicable regulations demonstrates clearly that this “Indian Nation” nonsense is another dead end.
First of all, the SCHHA document states that the United States Interior Department rejected an earlier application by this same group to be recognized as an Indian Nation “because Hawaiians are not Indians.”
How obvious is that? That the SCHHA/Danners/Inouye scheme would try to direct the energies of our people into a pathway that is so patently frivolous is shameful.
While claiming that the latest version of the Akaka Bill would supposedly allow Hawaiians to be categorized as Indians, the conspirators admit that the Akaka Bill never passed and never will. What might have been, therefore, provides no foundation or legitimacy for current action.
To the contrary, Congress took up the matter of allowing Hawaiians to be recognized as Indians and did not approve of that change in the law. That decision is a legal basis for arguing that the President would be violating the will of Congress, if he claims the law can be interpreted to allow such recognition.
The occupying power has already played fast and loose with the truth by categorizing Hawaiians as a race. There is no such race; Hawaiians are no more a race than are the Norwegians or the French. The categorization, however, allowed the courts of the occupying power to declare programs, policies, and practices providing some meager compensation to Hawaiians for the theft of their nation as race-based discrimination and unconstitutional.
Now the occupiers and their surrogates want to characterize Hawaiians as Indians, which we clearly are not.
Rejected by the Interior Department and failing to change the law in Congress, the plan now calls for getting President Obama to issue an executive order recognizing these usurpers as a legitimate quasi-government.
Consideration of this request by the President and the Interior Department is governed by the United States Code of Federal Regulations, 25 CFR Part 83, which defines the basis for the United States to grant status as an Indian nation to a group seeking such status. There is hardly a single provision in that federal regulation that would be satisfied by an application filed by anyone seeking to have Hawaiians declared Indians or composing an Indian nation.
25 CFR Part 83
Before getting into the specific requirements for being acknowledged as a nation, the terms as defined in
the laws definition section already rule out an application by Hawaiians. The following three definitions
appear in Section 83.1, Definitions.
"Indian group or group means any Indian or Alaska Native aggregation within the continental United States that the Secretary of the Interior does not acknowledge being an Indian tribe.
"Indian tribe, also referred to herein as tribe, means any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, pueblo, village, or community within the continental United States that theSecretary of the Interior presently acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe.
"Indigenous means native to the continental United States in that at least part of the petitioner's territory at the time of sustained contact extended into what is now the continental United States."
25 CFR Section 83.1 (emphasis added)
These definitions unquestionably exclude Hawaiians because the Hawaiian Islands are not within the continental United States and at no time after sustained contact with non-Hawaiians did the territory of Hawai’i extend into the continental United States.
For President Obama to act as the conspirators’ request, he would first have to ignore the obvious distinction between Hawaiians and Native Americans and have to ignore the plain meaning of these definitions.
No court would have any difficulty determining that applying these regulations to Hawaiians is contrary to the intent of the regulation.
As to the criteria, section 83.7 says that the criteria are “Mandatory criteria for federal acknowledgement.” That means that the applicant group must satisfy every specified criterion to achieve nation status.
The criteria are set forth here in an abbreviated form. The code contains the complete text of each criterion.
The first criterion is that the petitioner has been identified as an American Indian entity on a substantially continuous basis since 1900. 10 CFR 83.7(a).
Using the definition of American Indian found in the definitions section, Hawaiians have not been identified as American Indians at all, let alone for the past 112 years.
Again, each criterion is mandatory, so the failure to satisfy even one requires denying the application. Having failed to pass the test of the first criterion, our inquiry could end. Nevertheless, it is instructive to analyze some of the remaining criteria, which are also not satisfied.
The second criterion is that a predominant portion of the petitioning group comprises a distinct community and has existed as a community from historical times until the present. 10 CFR 83.7(b).
It is hard to determine what “distinct community” the SCHHA plan has in mind and how they could possibly establish that community as existing “from historical times until the present.” The history is clear that the communities that have existed over time are the different Hawaiian island governments before Kamehameha the First united all the tribes into one nation; the Hawaiian nation after unification until the establishment of the Kingdom; and the Kingdom. There were no distinctions comparable to those between the Hopi, Navajo, Apache, etc.
The SCHHA plan also envisions lots of Hawaiian groups seeking acknowledgement as Indian Nations. Each would be a sub-group with no historical basis.
The third criterion is that the petitioner has maintained political influence or authority over its members as
an autonomous entity from historical times until the present. 10 CFR 83.7(c).
Whatever entity the OHA/SCHHA/Danner/Inouye group creates will not be able to demonstrate that it ever exercised political influence or authority over whatever members it may claim from historical times until the present. The fact that their new entity has to be created forecloses that argument.
The very destruction of the Kingdom government by the United States and the subsequent establishment of the occupying government created a gap in the autonomy, political influence, and authority of the only legitimate historical entity -- the Kingdom.
Whatever current political influence the new entity may claim or authority the organization may claim over its members, the new entity has certainly not been an “autonomous entity from historical times until the present.”
The fifth criteria are that the petitioner’s membership consists of individuals who descend from a historical Indian tribe or from historical Indian tribes which combined and functioned as a single autonomous political entity. 10 CFR 83.7(e).
The definition of “Indian tribe” set forth above clearly rules out a group that had no roots in the continental United States. 10 CFR 83.1.
It is hard to believe that the SCHHA/Danner/Inouye/OHA group really expects the President of the United States to simply ignore the mandatory and specific federal regulations that govern a decision on an application for recognition as an Indian Nation.
What is more likely is that this scheme is simply misdirection to once again lead people into fruitless activity, either in support of or in opposition to this plan. The goal is simply to syphon off the energy for independence into a patently silly debate.
At its core, the SCHHA/Danner/Inouye/OHA proposal is illogical, illegal, and based on lies. That the proponents would seriously make such a proposal is a measure of the desperation being experienced by those who have cast their lot with the occupiers and want to maintain their position of privilege and those
who seek to profit from destruction of the Kingdom. They see the restored nation rising up and their legitimacy passing away.
Those who support the restored Kingdom need to direct their energies into the restoration process and not be misled by those who have clearly stated that their intent is to extinguish the Kingdom.
I commend this analysis to the study of my people and encourage them to share this document widely.
December 4, 2012
O wau ka i ho'opale i ka pono,
Edmund K. Silva, Jr.
cc: Ali’i Mana’o Nui Lanny Sinkin
Na Kupuna Council O Hawai’i Nei
Royal Seal
Kingdom of Hawai’i
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1 comment:
To King Edmund K. Silva, Jr. What you are doing is right, and you cannot let the satanic government take it from you! This is fraud to call Native Hawaiins, "Indians!!" You need to kick Monsanto off of all Hawaiin Islands before they destroy your food supply that God gave you. You need to Ban Obama from living on the Islands, because he will bring a curse to the Islands. This is all a satanic plot and needs the support of ALL people living on the Islands to STOP it!!! If you want the support of the people not living on the Islands, I don't live there and would be glad to give my support if I can help you. I'm pretty sure the people would rally behind you and sign any needed petitions, etc. God Bless
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