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| | Apology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the January 17, 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and to offer an apology to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. |
 | | Whereas, on the afternoon of January 17, 1893, a Committee of Safety that represented the American and European sugar planters, descendents of missionaries, and financiers deposed the Hawaiian monarchy and proclaimed the establish ment of a Provisional Gov ernment; |
 | | Whereas the Native Hawaiian people are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territory, and their cultural identity in accordance with their own spiritual and traditional beliefs, custo ms, practices, language, and social institutions; |
| www.kekiai.org /education/Apology_Bill.html (1310 words) |
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