Bill Text: HI HCR5 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Kuleana Lands

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HCR5 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR5-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	5
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

recognizing kuleAna lands as historical lands and urging the counties to support efforts to promote continued ancestral ownership of kuleAna lands.

 

 

     WHEREAS, following the Māhele, several thousand native tenants, or maka‘āinana, were granted title to the lands they had occupied and improved under the Kuleana Act of 1850; and

 

     WHEREAS, the health and the well-being of the Native Hawaiian people is intrinsically tied to the deep feelings and attachment to the ‘āina (land); and

 

     WHEREAS, the "value" placed on these kuleana lands is without measure, and represents a lasting relationship between Native Hawaiians and their ancestors, their people, and the Hawaiian monarchy; and

 

     WHEREAS, over the generations, these families have continued to mālama ‘āina (care for the land) and are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit to the future generations, their ancestral lands, so that their descendants can carry on the legacy; and

 

     WHEREAS, the rapid escalation of land values in the recent years have resulted in emotional and financial struggles for Native Hawaiian families that are trying to keep kuleana lands in their family, and ultimately contributed to the continual loss of these historical and traditional family lands; and

 

     WHEREAS, today, very few Native Hawaiian families live on their ancestral kuleana lands; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the Senate concurring, that the Legislature recognizes the historical, cultural, and ancestral importance of kuleana lands to the Native Hawaiian families and urges the counties to support efforts to promote continued ancestral ownership of kuleana lands; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the mayors and councilmembers of the City and County of Honolulu, the County of Hawai‘i, the County of Kaua‘i, and the County of Mau‘i, and to the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

OHA Package; Kuleana Lands