U.S. Apology Bill to Hawaiian People — Transcript

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1. 0:21here on Wall Street today the Dow Jones
2. 0:23Industrials gained 13 1 12 points to
3. 0:25close at
4. 0:263687 and the trading was moderate one we
5. 0:30come back the American agenda native
6. 0:32Hawaiians who say give us back our
7. 0:36country the American agenda tonight A
8. 0:38most significant presidential apology at
9. 0:41the White House yesterday President
10. 0:43Clinton signed a formal letter of
11. 0:45apology to the people of Hawaii he was
12. 0:47apologizing on behalf of the US
13. 0:49government for the government's
14. 0:50involvement a 100 years ago in removing
15. 0:53the independent Hawaiian monarchy by
16. 0:55force and on the agenda tonight Hawaiian
17. 0:58identity our gender reporters Ken kab
18. 1:03bahara they are descendants of the
19. 1:06Island's original
20. 1:08inhabitants and this is their Public
21. 1:10Image filled with Aloha spirit and
22. 1:13Hawaiian Hospitality
23. 1:16Al living in harmony with dozens of
24. 1:19other ethnic and racial groups this is
25. 1:21the reality native Hawaiians represent
26. 1:24nearly half of all those in prison and
27. 1:26make up 30% of the homeless population
28. 1:29they are are the poorest least educated
29. 1:31and unhealthiest of any ethnic group in
30. 1:33the state now they are saying
31. 1:39enough sovereignty now to solve their
32. 1:42problems Hawaiians are demanding the
33. 1:44right to govern themselves Federal
34. 1:46recognition as a native group and
35. 1:48compensation for past wrongs as
36. 1:51improbable as it may sound they want
37. 1:53their land and their country back say it
38. 1:55in your heart say it when you sleep we
39. 1:58are not on American we will die as
40. 2:01Hawaiians we will never be Americans
41. 2:04once Hawaii was an independent nation
42. 2:06recognized by foreign countries
43. 2:08including the United States then in 1893
44. 2:11American sugar Barons with help from US
45. 2:14Marines illegally overthrew the Hawaiian
46. 2:16Queen and took over today writing a
47. 2:19100-year-old wrong has galvanized the
48. 2:21Hawaiian Community but dozens of groups
49. 2:24advocating sovereignty can't agree on
50. 2:26what that
51. 2:28means bumpy anah Hali and the Ohana
52. 2:31Council represent one extreme secession
53. 2:33from the United States from a beach head
54. 2:35on the island of Oahu they fly the
55. 2:37Hawaiian flag upside down that signifies
56. 2:41a country in distress and the United
57. 2:43Nations Flag demanding total
58. 2:45Independence under the UN Charter we are
59. 2:49entitled to the land that we stand on
60. 2:53the water in the land the ocean and the
61. 2:55air rebreed many Hawaiians take these
62. 2:58claims very seriously for 7 years
63. 3:01Michael Grace and his wife Sandra have
64. 3:03occupied a public park on the island of
65. 3:05Kawaii Land they say was stolen from the
66. 3:07Hawaiian people two years ago they and
67. 3:11their supporters were evicted arrested
68. 3:13and jailed their house was torn
69. 3:17down but they refused to give up coming
70. 3:20back building another house prepared to
71. 3:22be arrested again Milani tras head of
72. 3:26kalahi Hawaii Advocates a more moderate
73. 3:28position Nation within a nation similar
74. 3:31to the status American Indians have the
75. 3:34time has come for America to recognize
76. 3:36our nation segregate our lands from the
77. 3:38public Holdings give to us our resources
78. 3:40so that we can address our own problems
79. 3:43that won't be easy most of these groups
80. 3:45want control over a million and a half
81. 3:47acres of public land scattered on
82. 3:49different islands and now used for
83. 3:50military bases schools golf courses and
84. 3:54airports Land once owned by the Hawaiian
85. 3:58monarchy while it is highly unlikely
86. 4:00Hawaiians will get all the land they
87. 4:02want their demands once dismissed as
88. 4:04radical and unrealistic are being taken
89. 4:07seriously the governor and the state
90. 4:09legislature have recognized the right of
91. 4:12Hawaiians to form a Sovereign Nation and
92. 4:14in Washington the Clinton Administration
93. 4:16has signaled its openness to the
94. 4:20idea many Hawaiians predict they will
95. 4:23achieve some form of sovereignty by the
96. 4:25end of the century they have drawn A
97. 4:27Line in the Sand and they insist there's
98. 4:29no turning back Ken kosara ABC News on
99. 4:34alulu the American agenda we'll be back
100. 4:37in just a
101. 4:39moment turn