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Apoliona: Unity key to recognition
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer
Office of Hawaiian Affairs board chairwoman Haunani Apoliona said yesterday that she and her colleagues will continue to fight challenges to Hawaiian rights and entitlements by, among other things, continuing to push for passage of a bill in Congress that would federally recognize a Native Hawaiian government entity.
She urged the Native Hawaiian community, which has been divided on the issue, to unite in that fight.
"There is nothing else that is certain to protect native Hawaiian assets in the immediate future, and we cannot accomplish anything if our efforts are not unified," she said.
Apoliona made the remarks in her State of OHA and the Native Hawaiian Community speech at Kawaiaha'o Church during the agency's investiture ceremonies to swear in recently re-elected trustees Rowena Akana, Boyd Mossman, Oswald Stender and John Waihe'e IV, as well as newly elected