When we put western ideas of property and ownership into the equation, well then it became somebody's land.
Neil Abercrombie: “When we put western ideas of property and ownership into the equation, well then it became somebody's land.”
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Abercrombie explains the impact of Western property concepts on Hawaiian land.
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