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Akaka Bill

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The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 S1011/HR2314 was a bill before the 111th Congress. [1]

35 relations: Alaska Federation of Natives, American Bar Association, Apology Resolution, Barack Obama, Bruce Fein, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Casino, Cloture, Daniel Akaka, Democratic Party (United States), Grassroot Institute, Gregory G. Katsas, Haole, Hawaii, Hawaiian sovereignty movement, Japanese American Citizens League, Kamehameha Schools, Kingdom of Hawaii, Legal status of Hawaii, Mark J. Bennett, Maui No Ka 'Oi Magazine, Mazie Hirono, National Congress of American Indians, National Indian Education Association, Native Hawaiians, Neil Abercrombie, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Presidency of George W. Bush, Rice v. Cayetano, School voucher, Supreme Court of the United States, The New York Times International Edition, Tribe, United States Commission on Civil Rights, United States federal recognition of Native Hawaiians.

Alaska Federation of Natives

The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) is the largest statewide Native organization in Alaska.

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American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA), founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

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Apology Resolution

United States Public Law 103-150 is informally known by some supporters as the Apology Resolution even though there was no apology.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bruce Fein

Bruce Fein (born March 12, 1947) is an American lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law.

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Casino

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

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Cloture

Cloture, closure, or, informally, a guillotine is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.

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Daniel Akaka

Daniel Kahikina Akaka (September 11, 1924 – April 6, 2018) was an American educator and politician who was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Grassroot Institute

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is a public policy think tank based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Gregory G. Katsas

Gregory George Katsas (born August 6, 1964) is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Haole

Haole (Hawaiian) is a term used in the state of Hawaii to refer to individuals who are not descendants of native Hawaiians or of other ethnicities that were brought in to work the plantations.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawaiian sovereignty movement

The Hawaiian sovereignty movement (ke ea Hawaii) is a grassroots political and cultural campaign to gain sovereignty, self-determination and self-governance for Hawaiians of whole or part Native Hawaiian ancestry with an autonomous or independent nation or kingdom.

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Japanese American Citizens League

The was formed in 1929 out of existing Nisei organizations in California and Washington, and spread to become the largest and most well-known Japanese American organization in the United States.

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Kamehameha Schools

Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaiokinai established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who was a formal member of the House of Kamehameha.

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Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi originated in 1795 with the unification of the independent islands of Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi under one government.

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Legal status of Hawaii

The legal status of Hawaii—as opposed to its political status—is a settled legal matter but there has been scholarly and legal debate.

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Mark J. Bennett

Mark Jeremy Bennett (born February 24, 1953) is a Honolulu, Hawaii attorney who served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 2003 to 2010 in the two-term administration of Republican Governor Linda Lingle.

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Maui No Ka 'Oi Magazine

Maui Nō Ka Oi Magazine is a bi-monthly regional magazine published by the Haynes Publishing Group in Wailuku, Hawaii.

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Mazie Hirono

Mazie Keiko Hirono (Japanese name: 広野 慶子, Hirono Keiko; born November 3, 1947) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Hawaii since 2013.

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National Congress of American Indians

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native indigenous rights organization.

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National Indian Education Association

The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is the only national nonprofit exclusive to education issues for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people of the United States.

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Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians (Hawaiian: kānaka ʻōiwi, kānaka maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the aboriginal Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants.

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Neil Abercrombie

Neil Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014.

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Office of Hawaiian Affairs

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is a semi-autonomous department of the State of Hawaii created by the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention.

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Presidency of George W. Bush

The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009.

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Rice v. Cayetano

Rice v. Cayetano, 528 U.S. 495 (2000),.

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School voucher

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for a student at a school chosen by the student or the student's parents.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

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Tribe

A tribe is viewed developmentally, economically and historically as a social group existing outside of or before the development of states.

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United States Commission on Civil Rights

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created in 1957, that is charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues in the United States.

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United States federal recognition of Native Hawaiians

Federal recognition of Native Hawaiians refers to proposals for the federal government of the United States to give legal recognition to Native Hawaiians (Hawaiian: kānaka maoli), providing them with some form of indigenous sovereignty within a framework similar to that afforded to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

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Redirects here:

Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005, Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007, Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009, Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaka_Bill

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