HHCA says for eligibility: any descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778 You have

HHCA says for eligibility: any descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778 You have to have blood of races that were on the islands before 1778. In practice a commission decides if you're the right race. Other groups oppressed by plantation owners like the Filipinos and Samoans just get the boot and even less land available to them due to racist policies. Samoan descendants are now even worse off than native Hawiians and have to contend with racially/segregation projected rarefication of land.