Noah Dolim

So like you said, 1993, which was the 100th year anniversary of the overthrow, Bill Clinton signs the apology resolution, which

If you read it, it's the apology for primarily for their role in the overthrow and, you know, the landing of the Marines.

But it doesn't address the annexation part.

So it's very calculated.

And it also I think there's a stipulation in there that, you know, like the United States cannot be held liable, yada, yada, yada.

Of course.

So but but it was an important moment, you know, the 1990s.

spurred native Hawaiians to really think about sovereignty and like what does sovereignty mean from a national perspective or national meaning within like Hawaiian national perspective and what does that future look like um so since then that was really the catalyst for that that really deep political thought about sovereignty which again continues until today

That's the million dollar question.

And since the 1990s, you know, there's different facets of the community that have very different ideas about what sovereignty might look like.

You know,

One of the obvious kind of example would be full sovereignty, a break off from the United States and going back to some kind of independent nation, whatever that may look like.

On the other side of the spectrum, you have like the nation within a nation or Native American tribal model that has kind of been pushed top down, like more from the federal and some federal agencies.

And there was several attempts to move towards a nation within a nation status.

But that's primarily been resisted by Native Hawaiians for a number of reasons that I won't get into for sake of time.

I think where we're at now, especially with our economy and especially in the post-COVID world where a lot of local families have moved from Hawaii and, you know,

There's now, sadly, there's more native Hawaiians that live outside of Hawaii than in Hawaii.

I think there's some particular issues in Hawaii that people have turned their energy towards.

And kind of thinking of sovereignty and thinking of those issues as other forms of sovereignty to take care of.

So like food security, housing issues.