When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.
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There's a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions.Neil Abercrombie
Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.
Neil Abercrombie
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
Neil Abercrombie
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
Neil Abercrombie
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Neil Abercrombie
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