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Year of the Hawaiian – All Hawaii Stand Together

February 1, 2018 By Trustee Peter Apo

Prominent leaders of the Hawaiian community are leading an important initiative to declare 2018 as the Year of the Hawaiian. Read More

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The State of History

November 1, 2017 By Trustee Peter Apo

This month’s columnist is my nephew, ʻUmi Perkins, PhD, who teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi. “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon On August 6th, 1843, the newspaper Ka Nonanona reported on Read More

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A Native Hawaiian Constitution Is Born

May 1, 2017 By Trustee Peter Apo

The aha delegates have done their work. Now it’s our turn. Read More

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State of the Hawaiian Nation in Waiting

March 2, 2017 By Trustee Peter Apo

We have come so far and yet have so far to go. We have made joyful progress toward recapturing the customs and traditions of our cultural past and yet struggle to agree on a common vision of our cultural future. Read More

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What Does it Mean to Be Hawaiian?

March 2, 2016 By Peter Apo

All politics aside, indigenous identity seems more malleable than many people suggest. Read More

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Thoughtful Questions about Nation-Building and the ‘Aha

August 26, 2015 By Peter Apo

A letter from an OHA beneficiary who is able to navigate the confusion and emerge anger-free with a thoughtful defining of the challenges. Read More

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Hard Questions about Hawai‘i’s Future

June 5, 2014 By Peter Apo

Let’s ramp down from the lofty rhetoric and get to the real how-does-this-work questions. My intention here is as a facilitator of the questions that need to be asked. Read More

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The Hawaiian Nation: If Not Now, When? If Not Us, Who?

March 13, 2014 By Peter Apo

On March 6, 2014, the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs voted to adopt a plan that in its final phase will see OHA dissolved. Read More

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To Raise a Beloved Nation

December 19, 2013 By Peter Apo

I find myself in deep reflection over OHA’s stated mission, “To Raise a Beloved Nation.” What a profound thought with plenty of room for dreaming of what could be. Read More

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Restoring a nation–the four-legged stool

January 2, 2013 By Peter Apo

As an OHA trustee, I find myself having to focus on logical steps in the rebuilding of a nation. In my own mind I’ve constructed a four-legged stool as my model. Read More

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Sovereignty Song

December 2, 2011 By Peter Apo

Lyrics and music to the Sovereignty Song by Peter Apo & Jeff Rasmussen © 1985 Read More

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