Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 29, Number 12, 1 December 2012 — 50% blood-quantum not required for Kanaʻiolowalu [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

50% blood-quantum not required for Kanaʻiolowalu

In our first "He Mau Nlnau" feature, Clyde Nāmu'o, executive director of the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission, answers

I reader-submitted questions on Kana'iolowalu, a campaign to register Native Hawaiians for participation in the creation of a governing entity.

Nīnau (Question): To be accepted on to a waiting list for a lot on Hawaiian homestead, the applicant needs to be of 50 percent blood quantum. Does this same criteria apply to Kana'iolowalu? Pane (Answer): Unlike the 50 percent blood quantum required to qualify for the Department

of Hawaiian Home Lands, any Native Hawaiian who is 18 years of age as of the date of certification of the registry will be eligible

to participate in the organization of a governing )entity. Act 195, the law that authorized Kana'iolowalu defines a Native Hawaiian as any person who is a

lineal descendant of the aboriginal people who resided in the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778, or, any person who is eligible or is a lineal descendant of a person who is eligible for Hawaiian Home Lands. N: How will the Native Hawaiian Governing Entity be financed? P: There are several ways

in whieh the Native Hawaiian Governing Entity (NHGE) may be financed. The most likely would be a transfer of assets that are currently a part of the Public Land Trust to the NHGE. These are funds and assets currently eontrolled by the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. It is also possible that members or citizens of the NHGE may be assessed a fee (tax) for being a member of the entity. These are decisions that will need to be made by the officers and members of the NHGE. In the case of using funds from the Public Land Trust, this will involve negotiations with the State of Hawai'i, the U.S. federal government and the NHGE. ■

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