What is Ka Lahui Hawaii’s approach to gain sovereignty?
Ka Lahui’s approach is to seek inclusion for the Hawaiian people in the existing U.S. federal policy that affords all Native Americans the right to be self-governing, and to obtain access to the federal courts for judicial review. Once this is achieved, the sovereign nation can explore with the state, federal and county governments, resolution of claims relating to the Native trusts and other entitlements. Ka Lahui believes that the nation should be created before Native entitlements are negotiated. It is the right of the sovereign entity to advance the claims of the people and to explore ways to resolve conflicts with the State and the U.S. Sovereignty needs to be asserted. That is why Ka Lahui Hawaii has devoted the past three years to community education and citizen enrollment. Since 1987, Ka Lahui Hawaii has conducted over 100 workshops statewide on the Federal Policy and Sovereignty. It has sponsored and/or participated in four sovereignty conferences in the last two years and has
