I can imagine huge problems with this. Among those issues are, that only a small percentage of Hawaii residents are of native Hawaiian ancestry. And there are many who are mixed Hawaiian and other ancestry. One’s ancestry or ethnic background is supposed to make no difference in America.
And how do you prove that you have adequate Hawaiian ancestry to qualify for this new government and benefits?
And what if you have native Hawaiian ancestry, but this idea doesn’t agree with your view that we all should have equal protection of the laws, under one set of law? Will you be compelled to be following the separate Hawaiian legal system, instead of the existing system covering everyone else????
Not only that, but the wording of the HI constitution describes “native” as being “descendants” of the population people present at the time of Captain Cook’s visit in 1778.
This translates (with extreme stretching of genealogy) to a possible 1 in 500 chance of “probable” descent that is virtually unprovable, except for physical characteristics.
DNA from Queen Liluokulani— would that help establish the “race”?