Perspectives
Peter Apo Writings
Building a Hawaiian Cultural Nation
- A proposal to present the Hawaiian community as a Cultural Nation (while waiting for recognition as a Political Nation) by launching the nation as an on-line digital place that houses all the components that make up the fundamentals of a nation-its customs, traditions, people, places, practices, and more. ...
Values in Hawaiian Institutions
- It would be a reasonable assumption to expect that the operating cultures of our most prominent Hawaiian institutions would be driven by Hawaiian values. That fundamental to a Hawaiian institution would be a Hawaiian values-based management system that shaped the behavior of the work force...
- There was no lack of trying. Certainly, there was no wavering from committing substantial resources toward the political way-finding that would result in congressional recognition of Hawaiians as indigenous people and an opportunity to process the notion of a Hawaiian government. What happened?...
Issues and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
- Though required by law to share the 20% revenues from ceded lands, the state of Hawai‘i has not paid all the amounts due. OHA and the state have been in negotiations to settle these past due amounts. I believe OHA is on the right track in its approach to a settlement of (1) cash awards equal to the 20% share of total ceded land revenue...