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	Gift Paradigm Conference
		Trask was invited to become a member of the prestigious Indigenous Initiative for Peace (IIP), a global body of indigenous leaders convened by Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu-Tum, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Decade on Indigenous Peoples.
		Trask is the Convener for a Native Hawaiian NGO entitled Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii that has worked in the international arena on the Draft Declaration for Indigenous Peoples and the World Conference on Racism for 15 years.
		Trask was appointed to the position by the President of the Economic Social Council of the United Nations and is currently considered an indigenous expert to the United Nations in international and human rights law.
	www.gifteconomyconference.com /pages/Trask.html (437 words)

	Arthur K. Trask - dKosopedia
		According to his niece Haunani-Kay Trask, her uncle was a notable storyteller and orator, a throwback to the "great lawyers of that era." [1]
		Trask also was a supporter of statehood and was the last surviving member of the Statehood Commission, which he sat on from 1944 to 1957.
		Haunani-Kay Trask said she at first could not understand how her uncle could be an advocate for statehood and Hawaiian sovereignty at the same time.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Arthur_K._Trask (305 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Official's remark divisive
		The latest furor involving Mililani Trask - and her refusal to apologize - has widened the ethnic chasm in the islands, where native Hawaiians are struggling for some form of sovereignty while claiming to be victims of racial discrimination.
		Trask, long a militant activist for native Hawaiian rights, was elected last year as a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which oversees a state program benefiting descendants of the islands' original residents.
		Trask denied the slurs and accused Machado of lying and coordinating a smear campaign against her.
	www.caller2.com /1999/november/25/today/national/2086.html (474 words)

	Trask, Mililani B.: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Mililani B. Trask, a native Hawaiian attorney, is the leader of a Hawaiian sovereignty movement that seeks the establishment of a separate nation for native Hawaiians and the return of the state-managed lands to which native Hawaiians are legally entitled.
		Trask was born into a politically active family.
		Her grandfather, David Trask Sr., was a territorial senator, and her uncle, David Trask Jr., became a prominent labor leader who organized a powerful union for state government employees.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/trask-mililani-b (185 words)

	Hawaiian official's remarks about Inouye widen ethnic chasm [Free Republic]
		Trask's refusal to apologize has widened the ethnic chasm in the islands, where native Hawaiians are struggling for some form of sovereignty while claiming to be victims of racial discrimination.
		Trask, long a militant activist for native Hawaiian rights, was elected last year to the board of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which oversees a state program benefiting descendants of the islands' original residents.
		Trask has said she is sorry if disabled people or those of Japanese ancestry were offended by her comments.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a383f34805530.htm (1152 words)

	Mililani Trask - dKosopedia
		Mililani Trask, is a leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and a political speaker and attorney.
		From 1998 – 2000, Trask was elected to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as Trustee at Large.
		Mililani Trask is the younger sister of activist and writer Haunani-Kay Trask.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Mililani_Trask (248 words)

	Golden Gater Online
		Mililani Trask, a leader in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, spoke Tuesday to an enthusiastic crowd in the Cesar Chavez Student Center as part of an Associated Students-sponsored speaking tour at SF State and CSU Hayward.
		Trask is the kia 'aina, or governor, of Ka Lahui HawaiÕi, a group fighting for Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination.
		Trask said she wants to promote awareness and understanding of the civil rights violations in Hawaii and the environmental crisis in the islands, which lead Ka Lahui to include its own people on the endangered species list.
	www.journalism.sfsu.edu /www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/hawa.htm (855 words)

	The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement: Non-Hawaiians - 5. NATION-WITHIN-A-NATION
		Trask is an attorney and Kia'Aina (Governor) of Ka Lahui Hawai'i.
		Trask replied non-Hawaiians should support Ka Lahui Hawai'i and be involved with the issues Ka Lahui is addressing, as a diverse community seeking social justice and civil rights.
		Trask emphasized that pensions, social security and Medicare benefits of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian citizens would not be affected, as is the case with other Native groups in the United States.
	hookele.com /non-hawaiians/chapter5.html (4652 words)

	Wintec: Mililani Trask
		Mililani Trask, a Native Hawaiian attorney and United Nations International Treaty Lawyer visited the Waikato Institute of Technology campus from Tuesday 29 October to Thursday 1 November, 2002.
		Mililani was recently named the Pacific Basin expert on the newly established 16-member Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nation's General Assembly.
		Mililani was given a traditional powhiri (welcome) by Maori staff and students.
	www.wintec.ac.nz /index.asp?PageID=2145823203 (140 words)

	Hawaiian Sovereignty Leader to Speak at Whitman College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Trask, a native Hawaiian author and nationalist, is the director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
		Trask wrote and co-produced the 1993 film "Act of War: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation." She the author of several books including "From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i," which has been described as "impassioned and provocative" by Publishers Weekly.
		Trask, who comes from a politically active family, compares her style to that of Malcolm X, and that of her sister, political leader Mililani Trask, to Martin Luther King, Jr.
	www.whitman.edu /news/bignews/hawaiitalk.html (223 words)

	Hs Trask Shoes
		Trask's overland journey was described in the 1960 historical novel ''Trask'' by Don Berry, as well as two sequels.
		Trask's most significant contribution to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was her founding of Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii, an internationally recognized native Hawaiian non-governmental organization.
		Trask composed the music and lyrics for the Off Broadway stage musical and 2001 film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", about a transexual rock star named Hedwig.
	aardogs.com /pages10/43/hs-trask-shoes.html (1263 words)

	The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement: Non-Hawaiians - 5. NATION-WITHIN-A-NATION
		Trask is an attorney and Kia'Aina (Governor) of Ka Lahui Hawai'i.
		Trask replied non-Hawaiians should support Ka Lahui Hawai'i and be involved with the issues Ka Lahui is addressing, as a diverse community seeking social justice and civil rights.
		Trask emphasized that pensions, social security and Medicare benefits of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian citizens would not be affected, as is the case with other Native groups in the United States.
	www.hookele.com /non-hawaiians/chapter5.html (4652 words)

	AsianWeek: News: ‘Yellow Ass’ Allegation Roils Hawaii Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, Trask last week reaffirmed her comment, saying that the same arm he lost in battle was supposedly adorned with stolen jewelry acquired during the war.
		Trask said that since the people of Hawaii, including Native Hawai’ians, rallied around Japanese Americans during their drive to secure an apology and reparations payments for survivors of internment camps, Japanese Americans now have an obligation to reciprocate and help Native Hawai’ians obtain redress.
		Trask noted that it was Akaka who authored and introduced the apology resolution in the Senate six years ago.
	www.asianweek.com /1999_12_09/news_hawaii.html (835 words)

	Learning to Listen to Indigenous Voices
		Mililani Trask's story shows the interconnection between the destruction of natural environment and the destruction of native cultures.
		The excerpts of Mililani Trask's story as presented in the introductory paragraph show the complex problem of biological and cultural diversity reduction in a much more vivid way than an abstract analysis of the global crisis or a mere set of numbers could do.
		Mililani Trask, while having been educated as a lawyer herself, is very skeptical about the sufficiency of the existing legal tools to support the vital interests of indigenous peoples.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /faculty/ddcaron/Archive/iel97/ie03013.htm (3371 words)

	Hawaiian women chart their own path to power
		In her book, "From a Native Daughter," Trask wrote that American culture is a patriarchy that is "structured and justified by values that emphasize male dominance over women and nature (and that) American institutions reward men and male-dominant behavior with positions of power" which further entrenches the patriarchy.
		Notably, Trask's sister, attorney Mililani Trask, 53, founded Ka Lahui Hawaii in 1987, a group seeking a native Hawaiian nation based on the model of American Indian nations.
		Mililani Trask and about 250 Hawaiians wrote a constitution establishing the nation known as Lahui, with Mililani Trask elected kia'aina (governor).
	www.moolelo.com /wahine-rule.html (1603 words)

	Haunani-Kay Trask - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haunani-Kay Trask Ph.D. (born October 3, 1949) is a California-born Native Hawaiian academic, activist, documentarist and writer.
		Trask is a professor of Hawaiiana with the University of Hawaii System and has represented Native Hawaiians in the United Nations and various other global conferences.
		Mililani B. Trask, her younger sister, was a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs created by the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention to administer lands held in trust for Native Hawaiians and use the revenue to fund Native Hawaiian programs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haunani-Kay_Trask (393 words)

	Human Rights - First Sesson of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
		Mililani Trask pointed out that some of the interventions by Indigenous delegations are clearly complaints of human rights violations.
		Mililani Trask continued the discussion by stating that ILO 169 states that Indigenous peoples are equal in rights to other peoples.
		Mililani Trask asked that the ILO work together with the PF in trying to get rid of the asterisk.
	www.7genfund.org /arc-pub/perm-forum-p9.html (1410 words)

	Trask.html
		Haunani-Kay Trask was born October 3, 1949, a member of a family deeply embedded in Hawaiian politics.
		Her father Bernard Trask was a renowned nationalist, who along with his wife, raised two of the most notable Hawaiian sovereignty leaders, Mililani Trask, governor of Ka Lahui Hawaii and Hauanai-Kay, poet, activist and professor who help establish The Center for Hawaiian Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
		Trask has gone on to pen many articles, essays, poems and book about the loss of Native Hawaiian rights, attemping to decolonize the minds of her people and those around her.
	eprentice.sdsu.edu /F044/jhoffman/hktrask.html (320 words)

	Indigenous rights
		Trask said that a vast majority of human rights violations are committed against indigenous peoples.
		Trask cited the instability of these economies, and said the consumer nations are obliged to put back into the world what they are using.
		Trask stated that these traits are sought for their value to military technology; members of the Human Genome Project work to preserve these traits while letting the cultures that they belong to “become extinct.”
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2004/2/27/news/article11.html (428 words)

	Three sovereignty groups claim U.S. abuses - The Honolulu Advertiser
		The report was submitted earlier this year to the U.N.'s Human Rights Committee by Mililani Trask, convenor of Na Koa Ikaika O Ka Lahui Hawai'i, Kai'opua Fife of the Koani Foundation and Kekuni Blaisdell, chairman of the Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike.
		Trask, Fife and Blaisdell appeared at a news conference yesterday in front of 'Iolani Palace, where Queen Liliu'okalani was overthrown in 1893 by businessmen with the backing of U.S. troops.
		Trask said the report she drafted was in response to a 2005 submittal to the U.N. by the Bush administration in which it claimed the U.S. was in compliance with its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a human rights treaty.
	www.honoluluadvertiser.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NEWS23/605050353/1173/NEWS (505 words)

	Welcome to News From Indian Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Mililani Trask received her award, the Native Hawaiian delegation broke into a series of chants and songs, honoring her as well as all of those assembled.
		Trask’s acceptance speech was sprinkled with anecdotes and fond memories of how she first began to work with Indigenous women from the mainland; her stories highlighted the links between Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders’ work to de-colonize their territories and Native American struggles.
		Trask has worked tirelessly in the international arena on behalf of Pacific Islanders, many of whose nations have recently been colonized.
	www.indiancountrynews.com /fullstory.cfm?ID=31 (1059 words)

	Molokai Times - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Political guests Vicky Takamine and Mililani Trask shared their mana'o about the history of genetically modified organisms, or Biotechnology Crops, as they are called in the agriculture industry.
		Trask said she was particularly upset about the silence coming from OHA on such an important health issue.
		Trask said her chief concern was getting GMO labeling on market products, and she had been urging the state for several years to have testing done to determine the nutritional value difference between GMO and non-GMO corps.
	www.molokaitimes.com /articles/63420571.asp (605 words)

	Decolonizing the Mind
		As cases in point, Trask refers to the imposition of a 50 percent Native Hawaiian blood requirement to qualify for a Homelands plot and the commercial falsification of Hawaiian culture.
		Trask documents the rise of contemporary Hawaiian activism, initially a land-based struggle spearheaded in 1976 by the movement to reclaim Kahoolawe and by resistance to evictions, such as those at Sand Island in the seventies and the military-occupied Makua Valley in this decade.
		Then there's Trask herself, who fought racial and sex discrimination by the University of Hawaii, a classic colonial institution, where 75 percent of the student body are people of color and more than 75 percent of the faculty traditionally white.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19991004/pennybacker (752 words)

	Read Article
		Trask in the Vienna Café, she is visibly and audibly shaken by the thought of what she calls the “irony” of it all.
		Trask explained this declaration is not a convention and it is not binding but it is very important, in that it will send a statement, creating a real framework for addressing Indigenous peoples and their rights as human beings.
		Trask says, “They’ve saved the toughest proposals for last.” A tense battle and a lot of finger pointing is expected.
	www.unobserver.com /printen.php?id=2849 (299 words)

	AGBIOS :: HOME ::
		Mililani Trask of Na Koa Ikaika Kalahui Hawaii, a human rights and environmental group, said a main concern is the lack of a framework to protect the environment and native species.
		Trask points to a lawsuit involving Mera Pharmaceuticals Inc. as an example of the state's deficiencies.
		Although the conference has a panel on bioprospecting, Trask said she and other locals were denied the chance to participate.
	www.agbios.com /main.php?action=ShowNewsItem&id=7169 (608 words)

	World Meets to Ensure Diversity of Living Organisms
		Hawaiian sovereignty activist attorney Mililani Trask is among those urging the state of Hawaii to pass legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of biological resources and biological diversity, including human genetic material.
		At a biodiversity forum in Honolulu last week in advance of COP7, Trask said a law is necessary because the University of Hawaii is proceeding with contracts to sell the rights to Hawaii's biogenetic resources to private corporations.
		The issue of biopollution by genetically modified crops is of concern to Trask and to all Hawaiians whose health has been shown to improve when they eat a diet of indigenous, natural foods.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2004/2004-02-09-02.asp (1153 words)

	22nd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference 2007
		Mililani Trask is a leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and an internationally acclaimed political speaker and attorney.
		Trask's most significant contribution to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was her founding of Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawai'i, an internationally recognized native Hawaiian non-governmental organization.
		She was a member of the Indigenous Initiative for Peace, helped author the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and was elected vice chair of the General Assembly of Nations of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization.
	ewocc.berkeley.edu /speakers.php (251 words)

	Trask aims to improve health for indigenous - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Pointing to increasing malaria, dengue fever and leprosy cases in the past 10 years, Native Hawaiian activist Mililani Trask noted that the poor health of indigenous people in the Pacific Basin is among the major problems in the region she represents as a new United Nations diplomat.
		Mililani Trask was named Pacific Basin expert on a United Nations indigenous-people panel.
		Trask has a proven track record in defending and advocating for human rights here at home and in the national and international arenas."
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2002/Mar/13/ln/ln20a.html (452 words)

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