HI Alliance

Hawaiian Inheritance

International Treaties, Laws & Resources:
People coming to buy land are forewarned that land title in Hawaii is clouded by the violent takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the systematic marginalization of the Hawaiian people & Hawaiian culture through colonization, displacement, resettlement, and illegal US military occupation.

• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (.pdf text)
      see also UN website focused on rights of indigenous peoples
      see also The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
      see also International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - IWGIA
      see also Sources of funding for Indigenous Peoples
  
  
• Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
  
  
• UN Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
      see also Analysis & background (UN Office of Legal Affairs)
  
  
• Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation - Kingdom of Hawaii & USA (1849)
  
  
• Blount Report to Washington DC, Investigating Conditions in Hawaii (17 July 1893)
      US Special Commissioner James H. Blount was given paramount US authority as liaison in the Hawaiian Islands,
      including discretion to land or withdraw military forces - but deployment only if US citizen protection were necessary.
      (Blount:) "if the question of annexation was submitted to a popular vote... I am satisfied that it would be defeated
      by a vote of at least two to one. If the votes of persons claiming allegiance to foreign countries were excluded,
      it would be defeated by more than five to one."
  
  
• U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland Denounces Hawaii's Occupation by US Military Forces (18 Dec 1893)
      In his message to the U.S. Senate, Pres. Cleveland cites internal US State Department correspondence sent by
        US Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii John J. Stevens to Secretary of State John W. Foster (1 Feb. 1893):
  "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it."
      Pres. Cleveland ultimately insists on amnesty for the plotters, but decries "an act of war...a substantial wrong..."
  
  
• New York Times archived article (1893)
      US Minister John J. Stevens is quoted (24 Nov 1892):
  "The time is at hand when we must decide who shall hold these islands"
  The New York Times correspondent is quoted:
  "...in landing United States forces and employing them to assure success to the seizure of power by a few persons,
    this country did something which a sense of justice and fairness required that we should disavow and seek to repair."
  
  
• New York Times archived article (1896) discussing "the annexation scheme"
  
  
• Text of U.S. Government Apology to Native Hawaiians (1993)
      - Path of Public Law No: 103-150 = U.S.A. Apology to Native Hawaiians
      - U.S. Senate Vote on apology to Native Hawaiians for overthrow of the Kingdom
  
  
• United States Commission on Civil Rights USCCR documents
      - Implications of the Apology Resolution and Rice v. Cayetano
      - Briefing on Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005
  
  
• Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project: Native Hawaiians
  
  
• Finding of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Larsen - Hawaiian Kingdom (2001)
  
  
• Complaint against USA to UN Security Council (2001)
      On behalf of the Acting Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom
  
  
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
  
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  
  
• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  
  
• UN General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII), "Permanent sovereignty over natural resources"
      see also UN website focused on natural resources sovereignty
  
  
• Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
      see also UNESCO pamphlet on Cultural Diversity importance (.pdf)