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The thing that distinguishes them as Native Hawaiians is that Native Hawaiians were part of their racial and ethnic heritage.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about things

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control? '' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it, '' I was told.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands. '' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, idea

In this rainbow society that we have, it became very apparent to me after I entered into an electoral political life that the question of settling the issues on the assets of the Hawaiians is what the Akaka bill is about.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about question, society, life

There's a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about burden, state

When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about water, home, house, state

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about police