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1998

Journal

Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law

Native Hawaiians

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Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono:Voting Rights And The Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Plebiscite, Troy M. Yoshino Jan 1998

Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono:Voting Rights And The Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Plebiscite, Troy M. Yoshino

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Using the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Plebiscite to investigate the complex interplay between race, nationalism, and the special purpose district exception, this Note chronicles the development of relevant legal doctrines and the history of the Native Hawaiians' quest for self-government in an attempt to untangle those issues. In doing so, this Note concludes that the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Plebiscite was an unconstitutional method of securing sovereign rights for Native Hawaiians, but that a Native Hawaiian claim to at least some form of self-government is justified. As a result, this Note searches for a method that will guarantee self-government as well as …


Dependent Independence: Application Of The Nunavut Model To Native Hawaiian Sovereignty And Self-Determination Claims, Jeffrey Wutzke Jan 1998

Dependent Independence: Application Of The Nunavut Model To Native Hawaiian Sovereignty And Self-Determination Claims, Jeffrey Wutzke

American Indian Law Review

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