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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is a self-governing corporate body of the State of Hawaii created by the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention. [2] [3] It is often described as the fourth branch of government in Hawaiʻi. [4] [5] OHA's mandate is to advance the education, health, housing and economics (Kānaka Maoli) Native
They created the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), and directed that OHA was to receive the income and proceeds derived from a pro rata portion of the trust revenue. [19] In addition, Article XII, Section 6, of the Constitution "requires the OHA Trustees to manage and administer income and proceeds from a variety of sources, including a pro ...
Mililani Trask worked for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from 1998 to 2000 as a Trustee at Large. After the passage of the Rice Decision in 2000 gave non-Hawaiians voting access in OHA elections, Mililani lost her bid for reelection despite the fact that she won the 1998 election by a previously unprecedented number of votes cast by Hawaiians since the formation of OHA in 1978.
Apr. 18—Hawaii lawmakers are facing a decision on whether to give the Office of Hawaiian Affairs more income from ceded lands that the agency is owed. A bill that the House of Representatives ...
Ka Wai Ola is a Hawaii-based newspaper published by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The newspaper was first published in February 1984. [1] As of 2017, the paper was distributed to over 60,000 people. [2] It has some Hawaiian language columns. [3] The paper often covers Office of Hawaiian Affairs meetings. [4]
From 1981 until 1989, she worked at Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, a private legal practice, in Honolulu and became a partner for the law firm in 1986. [11] From 1988 to 1989, she was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the William S. Richardson School of Law .
The coalition feared that access to the waterfront would be limited and warranted only to residents of the new development, ultimately depriving the Hawaiian people access to this resource and thus violating both Hawaiian law and custom. Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) trustee Peter Apo assured the public that OHA has no intentions of ...
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 556 U.S. 163 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court case about the former crown lands of the Hawaiian monarchy, and whether the state's right to sell them was restricted by the 1993 Apology Resolution.