Senator DANIEL AKAKA (Democrat, Hawaii): It creates a government-to-government relationship with the United States. KASTE: Democratic Senator Dan Akaka, himself a native, wants Congress to let Hawaiians re-establish their national identity. He says his bill would give them a kind of legal parity with tribal governments on the mainland, but he says this sovereignty could eventually go further, perhaps even leading to outright independence.
What about the other 80 percent of the citizenry and other minorities like the Japanese? Would the "country" end up like Puerto Rico or some Indian Reservation dependent on the other US taxpayers for goods and services? Questions that need answers.
Having said that, they are seeing what the hammer of the Federal government can do when they get involved with every aspect of everyday life, such as education of your children.
In the case of Hawaii, some group of them will probably demand one of the islands.