11/03/2015
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"Your work here empowers the Native community to continue exercising true self-determination--our right to chart our own course and maintain our distinct traditions, cultures, and Native ways."
"OHA's policy priority for the Congress is simply this: to further the self-determination of Native Hawaiians."
"Congress has consistently recognized Native Hawaiians as the indigenous once-sovereign people of the State of Hawaii."
"In the 116th Congress, S. 4510, the Native American Language Resource Center Act was introduced by Senator Brian Schatz."