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About 200,000 acres of land across the Hawaiian Islands are reserved solely for Native Hawaiians. But not all Native Hawaiians, just those with 50% or more Hawaiian blood.
The 1921 Hawaiian Homes Commission Act created a land trust for those who can prove they’re at least half Native Hawaiian. But how do you prove it? And what happens if your kids don’t qualify?
Nicole Bell gave Hawai‘i Public Radio a tour of the Applications Branch that she oversees at the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
“These file cabinets include our genealogy library,” says Bell, “And then these drawers here are vital records, so birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, and so on.”
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HONOLULU The state of Hawaii could pay over $370,000 in lawyer fees after losing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 2,700 Native Hawaiians who spent years on the waitlist for homestead land.
The $370,418 payment is pending approval from the state Legislature and covers only attorneys fees during an appeal that stretched from 2017 to 2020, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday.
The amount is just a portion of what the state is expected to pay after the full costs for lawyer fees are determined and damages are awarded to those waitlisted.
“The state is well aware that it is going to be a very significant amount and that’s a consequence of its decision to fight this lawsuit for 20 years,” said attorney Carl Varady, who has represented the plaintiffs in the case, known as Kalima v. State.
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Posted on Feb 23, 2021 in Latest News, Newsroom
(Nānākuli, Oʻahu) – The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL), through its contractor Hawaii Engineering Group, Inc., will conduct drone surveying at the Nānākuli Homestead Cemetery beginning on March 1, 2021. The work is anticipated to last through March 5, 2021, weather permitting.
Activities will include scanning and penetration to properly document burial sites and open plots.
Residents in the area should anticipate visible drone activity between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
DHHL manages three cemeteries on its lands, one in Nānākuli and two on Molokaʻi.
For more information, call (808) 620-9500.