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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is extending the ʻAi Hua food voucher program until the end of the year. The food vouchers from Maui Economic Opportunity were supposed to end in September. But the program will continue while funds remain.
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The stewardship management plan outlines goals to restore and preserve cultural and historic sites impacted by the H-3 Freeway's construction in North Hālawa Valley. Community leaders hope to develop education programs and build a hālau for kupuna to share their knowledge. HPR's Jayna Omaye has more.
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The six seats up for election this year give Hawaiʻi voters considerable power in charting the future course of this agency with the mission of improving the conditions of Native Hawaiians. The future of OHA is built on the story, and the context, of its origins. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.
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U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, held a hearing with Native Hawaiian leaders on Wednesday to hear their concerns with the federal government.
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The National Museums Northern Ireland returned ancestral Hawaiian human remains, also known as iwi kūpuna, during an official handover ceremony earlier this month.
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With just four weeks remaining in this year’s legislative session, 2022 is potentially shaping up to be a big year for Native Hawaiian issues at the Capitol. Hawaiʻi lawmakers have advanced measures aimed at fixing long-standing issues from the mismanagement of Maunakea to adequate funding of Native Hawaiian-serving state agencies.
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House lawmakers have advanced legislation that aims to settle long-standing issues over exactly how much public land trust, or PLT, revenue the state must direct toward Native Hawaiians.
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Mililani Trask is a lawyer and Native Hawaiian rights activist who has served the Hawaiian community for decades.
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Fifty-eight sets of iwi kūpuna, or ancestral Hawaiian skeletal remains, were returned to the islands for reburial this month. But negotiations with museums around the globe started long before — and were not initially successful. The Conversation's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more.
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Lawmakers are considering a bill to settle unresolved issues over exactly how much public land trust revenue the state must direct toward the betterment of Native Hawaiians. State law specifies 20% of that revenue goes to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, but what constitutes “revenue” has been a sticking point for years. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.