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Legislators Advocate for Native Hawaiians

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With the thirtieth Hawaiʻi State Legislative session well under way, your OHA team has been working incredibly hard to ensure that our interests are being represented and our mission fulfilled. Our Advocacy Division, specifically our Public Policy team, has tirelessly poured through the many thousands...

Relationships are key for legislative success

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The State Capitol is always busy during the Legislative Session. State legislators and their staff work long hours in the fast-paced session, facing nearly weekly filing deadlines in committees – deadlines that are necessary to meet in order to ensure legislation continues to move...

Hoʻolaha Lehulehu: Public Notice | March 2019

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PUBLIC NOTICE ASM Affiliates is preparing a Cultural Impact Assessment (CIA) in advance of the Proposed Kolekole Gulch Park Lead-Impacted Soil Response Action, State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health, Island of Hawaiʻi. The current Kolekole Gulch Park is located on TMK (3) 2-8-015:015 in Honomū,...

Kuleana, Persistence, Resilience and Governance

The annual celebration of Prince Jonah Kūhiō’s birthday is a good time to reflect upon and honor the legacy of Prince Kūhiō and the institutions that he established in his lifetime to empower Native Hawaiians to govern as Hawaiians, for Hawaiians. He was born on...

Poke Nūhou: News Briefs | March 2019

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Converging of cultures A small contingent of the Hawaiʻi State Commission on the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FestPac 2020) traveled to Aotearoa during the Kapa Haka national competition Te Matatini to share information about the upcoming festival hosted here in Honolulu June...

Kamehameha commemorated in paint and prose

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Note/preface: The Volcano Art Center in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is hosting NIUHI-SHARK, a fine art exhibit February 16 – March 24. This exhibit honors Kamehameha The Great in both paint and prose with original paintings created by Carl F.K. Pao, paired with selections...