Unless your name is 'Running Bear' ... you and your family are immigrants.
Deal with it.
Wrong. This land became ours when we conquered it.
Deal with it.
Dear
satrebil fncceo
Yes and No. Where situations are like Hawaii, the MANAGEMENT of land and resources should still belong
to Natives who did not surrender willingly but were coerced. In Hawaii's case, the Natives made no violent
attacks but were defending themselves from military takeover that was unprovoked.
The issue preventing the US from handing back the land unconditionally is
NATIONAL SECURITY. Other countries such as Russia, China, Korea could attack and take over
Hawaii as a base and then start planting troops and bases there for closer range to attack.
So the solution could be to declare all the airspace, border and perimeter regions AROUND
Hawaii as US territory for national defense. And still include the STATE of Hawaii as having
representation in Congress to invoke Constitutional protections as the rest of the US.
But then allow the Kingdom of Hawaii to reclaim dominion WITHIN the US and govern
their own citizens and manage their own lands. While any US citizens there can still vote
and elect Congressional and other US reps as currently, while RENTING from Hawaii owners.
The tables would be turned, instead of Natives "renting space" at the mercy of outside landholders,
they would own the land and rent to US citizens and government holding space there to represent
the citizens while the surrounding perimeter AROUND Hawaii (all the borders and entry ways by land,
air or sea) would still be under US JURISDICTION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY.
We can do the same for other Indigenous tribes claiming land.
The reparations they are owed should include damages for environment
destruction to the native wilderness, ecosystems and wildlife based on
the cost to set up sustainable jobs and work-study internships to
restore and preserve natural resources to become stabilized again.
California needs this, and can create its own indigenous economy
and currency based on backing financing against the value of the
natural wilderness and wildlife as its economic base for job creation.