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Precarious Positions: Native Hawaiians and US Federal Recognition
Get PDFThis essay examines the politics of the controversial proposal for US federal
recognition for Native Hawaiians. It explores a range of historical and legal issues
that shed light on the multiple claims that constitute the complex terrain of
Hawaiian sovereignty politics. The article provides a historical overview of the
events that impact the current situation and then discusses a particular set of contemporary
conditions that serve as key elements in catalyzing widespread support
for federal recognitionânamely, the implications of the recent US Supreme Court
ruling in Rice v Cayetano and subsequent legal challenges to Native Hawaiian
programs and funding by the US government. It also highlights difficulties with
the promise of federal recognition as a solution to âthe Hawaiian problemâ by
looking at lessons from Indian Country, Native Alaska, and the Pacificâespecially
the US unincorporated territories. Finally, the essay explores the independence
movement as an alternative to domestic dependent nationhood
"A blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material": Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citizenship
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Book Reviews
Get PDFBook Reviews: I Myself Have Seen It: the Myth of Hawai'i by Susanna Moore ; Water And the Law In Hawai'i by Lawrence H. Miike; Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance To American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva ; Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'i And the Battle For Statehood by John S. Whitehead; Ku'e: Thirty Years of Land Struggles In Hawai'i by Ed Greevy. Text And Captions by Haunani-Kay Trask; Hawai'is Pineapple Century: A History of the Crowned Fruit In the Hawaiian Islands by Jan K. Ten Bruggencat
