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	Akaka Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Akaka Bill is the common name applied to legislation proposed in the United States Congress between 2000 and the present that seeks to achieve for Native Hawaiians the same federal recognition and right to self-governance that most Native American tribes possess.
		The Akaka Bill enjoys the strong support of Hawaii's all-Democratic congressional delegation, as well as that of Republican Governor Linda Lingle, who has made its passage one of her priorities.
		Indeed, the bill was introduced partly in response to the February 23, 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Rice v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akaka_Bill (586 words)

	Daniel Akaka, U.S. Senator from Hawaii
		NEXT STEPS FOR S. As for the “prognosis” of the bill, I remain cautiously optimistic that given the opportunity for a roll call vote on the passage of S. 147, we have the necessary votes in the United States Senate to pass the bill.
		I am proud of the balance this bill achieves between structure and flexibility for Native Hawaiians to reorganize their governing entity for the purposes of a federally recognized government-to-government relationship.
		My intent in drafting this bill is to provide Native Hawaiians with the opportunity to reorganize their governing entity for the purposes of a federally recognized government-to-government relationship with the United States.
	akaka.senate.gov /akakabill-b.html (708 words)

	Michelle Malkin: AKAKA'S TRAVESTY OF A BILL
		The bill establishes a certification commission to be composed of Native Hawaiians with expertise in genealogy to certify that those individuals who are applying to be on the roll meet the definition of Native Hawaiian.
		Under Sen. Akaka's bill, members of the bogus Native Hawaiian "tribe" would be allowed to create a race-based voting registry of citizens and to investigate individuals' backgrounds to verify their blood purity.
		The Hawaii Reporter says that Bush would support this bill and is actually lobbying in its favor, perhaps becauase of the deal that was worked out for the Hawaiian senators to vote for drilling in ANWR in exchange for support for this travesty of a bill.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/003305.htm (954 words)

	Akaka bill voting relies on logistics - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		He has said in recent weeks that the bill could be added to one of several major spending bills pending in the Senate or to an expected omnibus spending bill — a giant bill with several spending bills rolled into one.
		But if Inouye could insert the Akaka bill language into a spending bill during negotiations between the House and Senate, it becomes a part of the very fabric of the spending bill.
		Rejecting the Akaka bill language would mean killing important spending on such issues as foreign operations, homeland security or veterans' funding.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Sep/29/ln/ln02a.html (626 words)

	ICT [2004/09/24] Akaka Bill will need to hitch a ride in Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The bill's only chance to pass is as a rider, because the Senate's Republican leadership has placed a hold on it - a parliamentary maneuver Inouye called "un-American," according to the Honolulu Advertiser.
		The Akaka Bill, Senate bill 344 or more formally the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2004, has not gotten a hearing from the full Senate, leaving Inouye and fellow Hawaii Democrat Daniel Akaka with no chance of passing the bill except as a rider.
		From there - for national appropriations bills almost always "go to conference" as the saying has it - it would be negotiated in a conference committee between members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, called to iron out differences between the separate bills of the two chambers.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096045738 (986 words)

	Federal Recognition Bill Status Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The passage came after the bill was amended to clarify that the measure does not authorize eligibility of Native Hawaiians for federal Indian programs and services.
		Akaka’s press secretary, Donalyn Dela Cruz, said the senator is optimistic that the Hawaii delegation can garner enough votes to win full Senate approval for the bill.
		The passage of the bill by the Indian affairs Committee comes after a week of testimony and lobbying in favor of the bill by Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees and other officials.
	www.nativehawaiians.com /FedRecBillUpdate.html (457 words)

	Misinformation abounds on revisions to Akaka bill
		It is important to note that OHA does not believe that lobbying for the Akaka bill is an illegal use of OHA funds.
		In fact, OHA trustees feel they have a fiduciary duty to seek passage of the Akaka bill to preserve federal recognition as an option should the Hawaiian people later decide that they want federal recognition as a form of government.
		It is also important to note that the claims referred to in the Akaka bill are claims made by the sovereign Native Hawaiian governing entity to the sovereign government of the United States.
	www.moolelo.com /akakabill-namuo.html (870 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		The native Hawaiian recognition bill is "a recipe for permanent racial conflict," says a U.S. senator who is opposed to a measure that has the support of Hawaii's Democratic senators and Republican Gov. Linda Lingle.
		All agreed that the bill, commonly known as the Akaka bill, will not be approved this year, according to Fyfe and Cardwell.
		The Akaka bill would establish an office in the Department of the Interior to address native Hawaiian issues and create an interagency group composed of representatives of federal agencies that currently administer programs and policies affecting Hawaiians.
	www.starbulletin.com /2004/08/02/news/story4.html (932 words)

	Bill Would Divide Hawaii by Race, Dole Out Entitlements - by Steve Stanek - The Heartland Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Critics of the bill say it would lead to the balkanization of Hawaii and other states, because it would set a precedent for virtually anyone with any amount of "native" blood in their lineage to claim special status.
		The Akaka bill would set a dangerous precedent for all states, said Ken Conklin, who finished fourth among 20 candidates for an at-large seat on the board of trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in 2000.
		The Akaka bill would also authorize the transfer of a portion of Hawaii's state-owned lands, natural resources and other assets to the new race-based government (at no cost to that new government, of course).
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=17829 (1148 words)

	History News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ironically, the Akaka bill is going to provide for Native Hawaiians the protections and institutions which would have been provided them if they had been territorially resistant and forcibly removed like Native Americans.
		The generosity of spirit and forward-thinking nature of the Hawaiian monarchy was abused, and the apology and the Akaka bill would, in a small way at least, rectify that injustice.
		The bill (most of the objections to which I discussed here) comes back up for debate (at least, if Frist and co. can keep their party mates in line) the same week that the Roberts hearings start.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/14390.html (401 words)

	ICT [2004/10/05] Arizona's Kyl has Akaka Bill in stranglehold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the Senate majority leader, is responsible for bringing bills to the floor for a vote.
		A House bill identical to the Senate version has passed out of committee; close observers, including Ross and Charles Wilkinson, the legal scholar who recently issued a memo in support of the Akaka Bill, believe the House bill will pass there handily.
		The name tends to emerge when a deal to overcome objections to the bill is in the works, though this is not always the case.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096409634 (637 words)

	Akaka Bill: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Akaka Bill is the common name applied to legislation proposed in the United States Congress Congress of the United States quick summary:
		The Akaka Bill enjoys the strong support of Hawaii's all-Democratic[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] congressional delegation, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Those in the Native Hawaiian community who feel that the bill would deprive them of their right for self-determination and independence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ak/akaka_bill.htm (478 words)

	GovTrack: S. 147: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005
		Official Title: A bill to express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity.
		This bill was considered in committee which has recommended it be considered by the Senate as a whole.
		A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate and then be signed by the President before it becomes law.
	www.govtrack.us /congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-147 (325 words)

	Stop the Akaka Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the last 5 years, officials of the department have destroyed documents, disobeyed court orders, and lied to the court, repeatedly in cases that seek to account for Indian money and land for which the Department of the interior is responsible.
		What this means is that so-called leaders of a Native Hawaiian governing entity under the Akaka bill can decide basic issues that effect you and your 'ohana directly like receiving money for damages relating to stolen land and the illegal overthrow.
		Under the Akaka bill, Hawaiians will have the legal status of wards of the US federal government.
	www.stopakaka.com /2003/prob.html (839 words)

	Akaka bill cloture vote next week?
		Akaka, who is known for his aloha rather than his aggression, has contemplated going after other senators' bills if the recognition bill does not come up soon.
		Kyl said that while a debate or vote on the bill next week is unlikely, it would be "very possible" to reach a consent agreement and set the terms for a debate after the Senate returns from recess in September.
		Late action on the bill would also make it more difficult for it to move this year in the U.S. House of Representatives, where Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Ed Case, both Hawai'i Democrats, are awaiting the outcome in the Senate.
	hawaiiankingdom.info /C608676235/E20050722093353 (1080 words)

	THE "AKAKA BILL", BEST THING FOR THE KANAKA MAOLI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First of all this bill is not designed to restore the Monarchy and include the "3239 naturalized Hawaiian Citizens", under the former Kingdom of Hawaii.
		The Akaka Bill is not for the descendants of the missionaries with the names of Thurstin-Twigg Smith, Alexander & Baldwin, the Carters, the ancestors of Freddie Rice and the list goes on.
		The Akaka Bill is the "foot in the door"; trust Lands, reparations and reconciliation will come after that.
	www.moolelo.com /akakabill-letter.html (409 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial
		This broad congressional power to "recognize and affirm" powers of native governments is most useful to Hawaiian natives in countering arguments that the Akaka bill cannot be passed because Hawaiian sovereignty was somehow "erased" by the overthrow or because Hawaiian natives are not within Congress's expansive authority under the Indian Commerce Clause.
		The title of the Akaka bill has been amended to make it the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2004." The word "Reorganization" brings the legislation into the main stream of native American legislation: The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 authorized tribal constitutions for tribes who had not exercised their sovereignty in terms of constitution-making.
		Much hard work lies ahead to complete the complex procedures of the proposed legislation, but passage of the Akaka bill marks a historic accomplishment for native Hawaiians and deserves to be recognized as such.
	www.starbulletin.com /2004/06/20/editorial/special2.html (795 words)

	Opponents ask OHA's aid to derail Akaka bill - The Honolulu Advertiser
		Both demands were made yesterday as the countdown continued toward a vote on the Akaka bill, which sets up a process that would lead to the U.S. government's recognition of the nation's 400,000 Native Hawaiians in the same way that it recognizes American Indians and Alaska natives.
		Namu'o said he is uncertain exactly how much more OHA has spent on the Akaka bill, although he acknowledged that a recent scientific poll and OHA's Kau Inoa project to get Native Hawaiians on a registry are somewhat related to the Akaka bill.
		Fein, in his letter to Lingle, said she is wrong in suggesting that the Akaka bill could not result in Native Hawaiians being allowed to ignore the U.S. Constitution or U.S. laws in favor of their own.
	www.tinyurl.com /a9nq8 (769 words)

	WHY ALL AMERICA SHOULD OPPOSE THE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION BILL, ALSO KNOWN AS THE AKAKA BILL, S.3064 ...
		Currently the bill would allow a small group of powerful, wealthy institutions and their dependents to create a tribe authorized to speak on behalf of all 401,000 ethnic Hawaiians, even though a majority of them disapprove of creating such a tribe.
		The bill also would allow the tribal council to accept a settlement with the state and federal governments without submitting the terms of the settlement to the tribe's members for ratification; and it would allow a settlement to be approved by the state Legislature without a vote by Hawai'i's people.
		In 1993 Congress passed a resolution of sentiment commonly known in Hawai'i as the "apology bill." The resolution was passed at the request of the Hawai'i delegation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the monarchy in Hawai'i.
	angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/AkakaNationalSummary109Cong.html (3377 words)

	Debate swirls around results of poll on Akaka bill - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Twice as many Hawai'i residents oppose the Akaka bill than support it, according to a survey released yesterday by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.
		The Grassroot Institute's leaders said the bill's proponents, who include Case, both of Hawai'i's U.S. senators, Gov. Linda Lingle and most of the rest of the state's political leaders, are the ones who are misleading the public.
		The Akaka bill, which would pave the way for the U.S. government to recognize the nation's 400,000 Native Hawaiians the way it recognizes American Indians and Native Alaskans, is expected to get a vote in the Senate as early as the week of July 18.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jul/06/ln/ln21a.html (651 words)

	Akaka Bill
		We clarified the bill further and successfully addressed the concerns expressed by Tex Hall, President, National Congress of American Indians, and certain Members of Congress who were still concerned that the language in S. 147 did not adequately protect Indian programs and services.
		This bill has always contained language stating that “Nothing in this Act is intended to settle any claims.” This is the same language that I included in the Apology Resolution to protect any claims as it has never been my intent to address claims in the legislation I have drafted to date.
		Folks this is passing under the radar and it is a most dishonest bill, hood winking the people into thinking this is about genealogy, which is dumb anyway, when the Senators etc. could put this to a vote and let the people decide whether they want gambling or not.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1436199/posts (2071 words)

	Akaka touts bill's economic value - The Honolulu Advertiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		U.S. Sen. Dan Akaka yesterday warned that the state's economy could be severely hurt if a bill granting federal recognition to Native Hawaiians as a political entity is not passed.
		The week before a key Sept. 6 vote in which senators will decide whether to debate the so-called Akaka bill on the Senate floor, the bill's namesake is trying to rally support for the measure among key local interests.
		Rotary member R. Erik Soderholm, who opposes the bill, said there should be a statewide referendum on the bill before it goes before the Senate.
	www.honoluluadvertiser.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/NEWS23/508310354/1173/NEWS (494 words)

	On rejecting the Akaka bill - Senate Bill S 2899 - Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine
		The bills were drafted and redrafted in Washington, not in Ka Pae'äina, before their formal introductionin both houses of Congress on July 20.
		Senators Akaka's and Senator Inouye's urgency in pushing S. 2899 seems to based on the belief that S. 2899 has a better chance of passage while President William Clinton is in office.
		Senators Akaka and Inouye also appear to have ignored Hawai'i Representative Patsy Mink's September 1, 2000 plea that since the Kanaka Maoli people appear to be divided on the issue, the US Congress should first abide by the Kanaka Maoli people's will through a referendum.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /akaka2.html (789 words)

	Akaka bill seeks ethnic-Hawaiian government - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 30, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The bill, sponsored by Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, would designate ethnic Hawaiians -- thought to account for about 20 percent of the state's population -- as an "indigenous people" comparable to American Indians and Alaska natives.
		She told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs that the bill would help "individual native Hawaiians to become more self-sufficient, which reduces their reliance on state and federally funded services." She said that a "Native Hawaiian government" could take control of state and federal programs for social services that spend money collected from taxpayers nationwide.
		Akaka said his bill "provides a process for the reorganization of the native- Hawaiian governing entity for the purposes of a federally recognized government-to-government relationship."
	www.washtimes.com /national/20050530-121542-6095r.htm (578 words)

	WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION BILL (AKAKA BILL) ?
		Senator Akaka later that day went to the floor, gave a short speech in favor of the bill, and promised he would give a speech every day on the Senate floor until the bill is brought up for debate and vote.
		Claims about illegal overthrow of the monarchy, illegal annexation, and the apology bill raise the specter of secession but are not relevant to support a bill for establishment of tribal status for ethnic Hawaiians as a political entity inside the United States.
		The Native Hawaiian Recognition bill (aka Akaka bill) is pork barrel ethnic politics at its worst.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/OpposeAkakaBill.html (3337 words)

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