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OHA Presses For A Bigger Share Of Money From Hawaii’s Trust Lands Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

OHA Presses For A Bigger Share Of Money From Hawaii’s Trust Lands

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs hasn’t received an increase in revenues from the ceded trust lands in more than a decade.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Pursuing Hawaiian Sovereignty In The Time of Trump Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat/2018

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Pursuing Hawaiian Sovereignty In The Time of Trump

The defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 flattened the hopes and the voices of those who were hoping, alternatively, to see progress toward federal recognition.

Panel Narrowly Recommends Keeping William Aila In Hawaiian Home Lands Post Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Panel Narrowly Recommends Keeping William Aila In Hawaiian Home Lands Post

If he wins approval in the full Senate, he’ll likely serve as interim director of the agency under fire for its long wait list for homes.

SLIDESHOW: Restoring An Ancient Fishpond in Kaneohe Bay Ronen Zilberman/Civil Beat/2019

SLIDESHOW: Restoring An Ancient Fishpond in Kaneohe Bay

Volunteers under the guidance of the Paepae O He’eia nonprofit organization have labored for 15 years to rehabilitate the He’eia fishpond聽with its 7,000-foot stone circumference.

Hawaii Pushes Bank Of America To Resolve Multimillion-Dollar Dispute Mike Mozart/Flickr.com

Hawaii Pushes Bank Of America To Resolve Multimillion-Dollar Dispute

The company left the islands in 1997, but it had already been ordered to make $180 million in loans, partially because of discrimination against Native Hawaiians and Filipinos.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: It’s Time For UH To Walk Away From TMT Huffington Post Hawaii

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: It’s Time For UH To Walk Away From TMT

Astronomers believe there are great discoveries to be made 鈥渙ut there,鈥 whereas Hawaiians believe there are equally great discoveries to be made right here.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: The Beauty of Being Satisfied With ‘Enough’ Trisha Kehaulani Watson/Civil Beat

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: The Beauty of Being Satisfied With ‘Enough’

It was a tenet of Native Hawaiians and other indigenous people to use resources in moderation and not overaccumulate wealth.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Do We Really Know Who We Are Anymore? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Do We Really Know Who We Are Anymore?

The promise of what Hawaii could be seems simultaneously more powerful and empty than ever today.

Denby Fawcett: Hawaiian Princess Is Very Different Now Than In 2007 Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

Denby Fawcett: Hawaiian Princess Is Very Different Now Than In 2007

Comparing a new public relations video of the Campbell Estate heiress to an unscripted discussion with her 11 years ago shows she’s not her old sharp self.

Former OHA Trustee Rowena Akana Hit With $23K Ethics Fine Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Former OHA Trustee Rowena Akana Hit With $23K Ethics Fine

Akana, who served on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees for nearly 30 years, may also have to pay back more than $21,500 in gifts.