The Native Hawaiian people are an indigenous people this is not race-based legislation.
Mazie Hirono: “The Native Hawaiian people are an indigenous people this is not race-based legislation.”
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Hirono defends the Akaka bill as non-race-based legislation for Native Hawaiians.
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