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Eighth Annual state of OHA and Native Hawaiian community
2011-12-14 06:48

Remark the trustees Huanani, Aponliona, MSW
Chair person, Board of trustees
Tuesday, December 21,10 ,10:30 a.m St.Andrews Cathedral
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Aloha pumehana kakou e na lei ho’I o na kai ewalu na oiwi na pulapula o Haloa, mai hawai’i o
Keaweikekahialiiiokamako a Ni’ihau o kehelelani, a pun ke ao malamalama.

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OHA believes stream flow without job loss is possible
2011-11-14 06:49

The following opinion piece written by Haunani Apoliona, Chairperson of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, was published by the Honolulu Advertiser on Thursday, April 15, 2010. She wrote this commentary for the Advertiser.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs welcomes the announcement by Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar and the federal government of a biofuels research partnership with the Department of Energy, Navy, and University of Hawai'i.
OHA has committed significant resources to support restoration of mauka-to-makai flow in Maui's Nä Wai 'Ehä ("The Four Waters"), which will benefit and safeguard these resources for all stakeholders. OHA views the partnership as an opportunity for a win-win resolution of the Central Maui water dispute.

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OHA believes Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act will benefit all of Hawai‘i
2011-10-05 21:58

The following opinion written by Clyde W. Nāmu‘o, Chief executive officer, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, was published by the Honolulu Advertiser on Thursday, April 15, 2010 in response to an April 12 column entitled, "Revised Akaka bill unsettles Isle GOP."

While columnist David Shapiro's column, "Revised Akaka bill unsettles Isle GOP," (April 12) made some good observations, it overlooks the bigger issue of why federal recognition makes sense for Native Hawaiians, and for all of Hawai'i, in the first place.

We appreciate that the measure's passage has drawn support from our congressional delegation and Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona.

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OHA bill to resolve past-due claims advances
2011-09-05 22:03

By Liza Simon / Public Affairs Specialist
The state would pay its $200 million debt to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for ceded land revenues unpaid from 1978 to 2010, under a bill unanimously approved by two House committees yesterday.
"This bill acknowledges that the State of Hawai'i is in dire financial circumstances so it permits a delay in payment until 2015," OHA Trustee Walter Heen told members of the Hawaiian Affairs Committee and the Water, Land and Ocean Resources Committee. Heen said that the proposed arrangement does not impose any additional fiscal burden on the state, since minimum $30 million payments to OHA would begin in the same year that the state ends its annual payments of an equal amount to the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

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