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Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act Hearing S. HRG. 111–283 NATIVE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ACT HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AUGUST 6, 2009 Printed for the use of the Committee on Indian Affairs ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 54–811 PDF WASHINGTON : 2010 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:37 Oct 05, 2010 Jkt 054811 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\DOCS\54811.TXT JACK PsN: JACKF COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota, Chairman JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Vice Chairman DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona KENT CONRAD, North Dakota LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii TOM COBURN, M.D., Oklahoma TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota MIKE CRAPO, Idaho MARIA CANTWELL, Washington MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska JON TESTER, Montana TOM UDALL, New Mexico AL FRANKEN, Minnesota ALLISON C. BINNEY, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel DAVID A. MULLON JR., Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:37 Oct 05, 2010 Jkt 054811 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\54811.TXT JACK PsN: JACKF C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on August 6, 2009 ............................................................................. 1 Statement of Senator Akaka ................................................................................... 3 Statement of Senator Barrasso ............................................................................... 2 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 2 Statement of Senator Dorgan ................................................................................. 1 Statement of Senator Inouye .................................................................................. 4 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Statement of Senator Murkowski ........................................................................... 6 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 6 WITNESSES Apoliona, Hon. Haunani, Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Office of Hawaiian Affairs .................................................................................................................... 15 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 18 Bartolomucci, H. Christopher, Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP ......................... 47 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 49 Benjamin, Stuart M., Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research, Duke Law School .......................................................................... 30 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 33 Danner, Robin Puanani, President/CEO, Council for Native Hawaiian Ad- vancement; accompanied by Steven Joseph Gunn, Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis ..................................... 51 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 53 Hirsch, Hon. Sam, Deputy Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice ................................................................................................................... 7 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 9 Kane, Hon. Micah A., Chairman, Hawaiian Homes Commission ....................... 45 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 46 APPENDIX Bennett, Hon. Mark J., Attorney General, State of Hawaii, prepared state- ment ...................................................................................................................... 124 Burgess, H. William, Founder, Aloha for All, prepared statement ..................... 116 Coburn, MD, Hon. Tom A., U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, prepared statement 73 Gunn, Steven Joseph, Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, prepared statement ..................................................... 75 Kaaa, Stephen, President, Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce, prepared statement with attachment ................................................................................. 112 Loa, Hon. Maui, Chief, Hou Band of native Hawaiian Indians of the Blood of Hawaii, prepared statement with attachment .............................................. 89 Response to written questions submitted by Hon. Byron L. Dorgan to H. Christopher Bartolomucci .................................................................................... 178 Van Norman, Mark, Member, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (Lakota) of South Dakota, prepared statement ................................................................................ 99 Additional prepared statements and supplementary information submitted for the record: Aki, Zuri, prepared statement ......................................................................... 138 Alexander, Hon. Lamar, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, article .................... 150 Arakaki, Earl, prepared statement ................................................................. 140 Arizona Republic Editorial ............................................................................... 153 Boston Herald editorial staff, article .............................................................. 154 Chapman, Tim, article ..................................................................................... 154 Clegg, Roger, article ......................................................................................... 155 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:37 Oct 05, 2010 Jkt 054811 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\54811.TXT JACK PsN: JACKF IV Page Additional prepared statements and supplementary information submitted for the record—Continued Fein, Bruce, article ........................................................................................... 170 Foster, Shelby, prepared statement ................................................................ 136 Fukuda, Robert K., letter ................................................................................. 176 Gessing, Paul J., letter ..................................................................................... 175 Gibson, Michael W., prepared statement ....................................................... 134 Kravet, Toby M., prepared statement ............................................................. 137 Kuroiwa, Jr., James I., prepared statement ................................................... 122 Letters to the Editor, The Honolulu Advertiser ......................................... 157–169 Macdonald, Tom, prepared statement ............................................................ 148 Shapiro, Ilya, articles and legal brief ............................................................. 141 Smith, Garry P., prepared statement ............................................................. 140 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, prepared statement ................................. 172 Written questions submitted by Hon. Byron L. Dorgan to .................................. Stuart M. Benjamin .......................................................................................... 190 Hon. Sam Hirsch .............................................................................................. 188 VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:37 Oct 05, 2010 Jkt 054811 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\54811.TXT JACK PsN: JACKF NATIVE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ACT THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2009 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:28 p.m. in room 628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Byron L. Dorgan, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. BYRON L. DORGAN, U.S. SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA The CHAIRMAN. I am going to call the hearing to order. This is a legislative hearing on the Senate Indian Affairs Com- mittee Senate Bill 1011, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorga- nization Act of 2009. The bill outlines the process for the reorga- nization of a Native Hawaiian government for the purposes of rees- tablishing a government-to-government relationship with the United States. It also reaffirms that the Native Hawaiian people have the right to provide for their common welfare and to adopt an appropriate governing document or series of documents as they re- organize the government. We as Congress have a distinct and undeniable trust responsi- bility toward the First Americans of the United States, and with the passage of this legislation, the Native Hawaiian people will once again have an opportunity for self-governance and self-deter- mination. This, I think, is an important step for our Country in an attempt to redress the wrongs that our Government has committed against the Native Hawaiian people. Congress has reaffirmed the rights of self-determination and self- government for many tribes in the lower 48 States and in Alaska. Native Hawaiians have been absent in these efforts, and the
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