hokuula

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by hokuula 3y ago
>Rather it's a question of trying to right a historic wrong But blocking the TMT won't do anything to further that goal, as it has nothing to do with it. > But the history of American colonization is much too recent to ignor
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by hokuula 3y ago
>Or they could perform an explicit reclamation project, to try to restore the land as best they could to the way it was prior to 1893. That is exactly what they are doing. It is a condition of the conservation district use permit [1] an
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by hokuula 3y ago
See my reply to petsfed. Regarding the Native Hawaiian's say, they do. This is a liberal democracy, and their voice is heard, quite loudly, especially the fraction that support the sovereignty movement. If we start parceling out the
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by hokuula 3y ago
> But the more I learn about this, the more the Mauna Kea telescopes feel an awful lot like Mt. Rushmore: colonists moving in and saying that the natives' claim to a place is less legitimate than whatever "progress" the co
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by hokuula 3y ago
>The wound is still relatively fresh. Only a portion of the community still actively talks about the overthrow. Many Native Hawaiians also support the TMT. >but that doesn't mean I want another country to invade and then build i
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by hokuula 8y ago
>The thing is, when Hawaiians protest its hard to figure out who or how many they represent. Because there is no official Hawaiian government. (There is the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). But dont even get me started. lol) So no one c
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by hokuula 8y ago
Here is the link to the actual opinion http://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SCO... The HSC held that Native Hawaiian rights would not be substantially impacted by the TMT, which was a