02/14/2018
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"The thing that we should remember is the United States has a special relationship with native peoples, and Native Hawaiians are native peoples."
"The legislature of the State of Hawaii...has time and again passed resolutions in support of this legislation."
"They were a kingdom. We had treaties. The Kingdom of Hawaii had treaties with the United States."
"The Native Hawaiian people are an indigenous people this is not race-based legislation."