And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:04:52 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Robert Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Native Hawaiians to elect delegates for sovereignty convention > > >http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/0115/n_ap_0115_197. >sml > > Native Hawaiians to elect delegates for sovereignty convention > 2.56 p.m. ET (1957 GMT) January 15, 1999 > > By Ron Staton, Associated Press > > > HONOLULU (AP) � Imprisoned in her palace > bedroom, Queen Lili`uokalani was given an > ultimatum in 1895: abdicate the throne or her > followers would face a firing squad. > > "For myself, I would have chosen death rather > than to have signed it,'' the eighth Hawaiian > monarch later wrote. But she felt she had no > choice. Her signature forever relinquished the > monarchy begun in 1810 by Kamehameha I. > > Now, more than a century later, some native > Hawaiians want the crown restored, others want > their own nation and still others would like to see > something akin to the partial autonomy some > Indian tribes have, a "nation within a nation,'' for > descendants of the original islanders. > > No one seriously worries about insurrection, but > the sovereignty movement in Hawaii is real, and > native Hawaiians will cast votes Sunday to select the people who will >shape it. > > "Sovereignty is a trail Hawaiians have been traveling actively for 25 >years and > even longer since the overthrow of the monarchy,'' said Kaipo Kincaid, >executive > director of Ha Hawaii, sponsor of the election. "This is a journey we are >taking > � all of us.'' > > About 100,000 native Hawaiians � anyone with at least part ancestry of the > Hawaiian race, no matter where they live � are eligible to elect delegates >to a > sovereignty convention planned for this summer. The convention, organizers > hope, will set specific goals for the sovereignty movement. > > The process began three years ago when the Hawaiian Sovereignty Elections > Council mailed ballots to 81,507 registered native Hawaiians. Fewer than half > voted, but 73 percent of those who returned ballots favored electing >delegates to > a convention. > > A total of 156 Hawaiians are competing for 85 seats at the convention. >Results of > Sunday's vote are to be announced Jan. 27. > > Not all native Hawaiians support the push for sovereignty. Some question the > legitimacy of a process begun by less than half of qualified voters. >Kina`u Boyd > Kamali`i, a former trustee of the Office of > Hawaiian Affairs, an agency charged with > looking out for the interests of native Hawaiians, > said the election should meet minimum > requirements, including having ballots cast by a > majority of registered native Hawaiian voters. > > Ha Hawaii ("ha'' means "breath'' in Hawaiian) > succeeded the state-appointed Sovereignty > Elections Council � and Kamali`i said any > process started by state appointees is tainted. > > "The Ha Hawaii process is not the breath of life, > but possibly the kiss of death to native Hawaiian > self-government,'' Kamali`i said in a January > newsletter from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. > > She also likened the election to the creation of the Republic of Hawaii after > Lili`uokalani's overthrow. > > "Then, as now, a small group of unelected individuals decided the process and > drafted a constitution � ready or not, wanted or not.'' > > But Ha Hawaii president Pua`ala McElhaney said the group's authority comes > from its membership and supporting organizations. > > "Can detractors have such total lack of trust in the judgment of the Hawaiian > people to think that all of these groups, all of these people, as diverse >as they are, > are under state control and not know it?'' McElhaney asked. > > Sentiment in favor of sovereignty has existed ever since Americans, >Germans and > Britons sacked Queen Lili`uokalani's government and formed the Republic of > Hawaii in 1893. She abdicated two years later, having spent a portion of >that time > under house arrest in her palace. > > Sugar planters then persuaded the United States to annex Hawaii in 1898, > despite opposition from native islanders. > > The islands became a U.S. territory in 1900. Though Hawaiians were U.S. > citizens, they could not vote and were represented by a congressional >delegate > who also could not vote. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. > > Ha Hawaii still needs to raise about $3 million to hold the convention. >Assuming > fund-raising targets are met, delegates will likely hold community >briefings and > then make recommendations for ratification by voters, Kincaid said. > > "Over time, the (sovereignty) discussion will weave a fabric,'' she said, >"As there > is more dialogue, the predominant concepts will prevail.'' > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > � 1999, News America Digital Publishing, Inc. d/b/a Fox News Online. > All rights reserved. Fox News is a registered trademark of 20th >Century Fox Film Corp. > > � 1999 Associated Press. 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