{"id":17,"date":"2009-10-19T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2009-11-27T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T00:35:05","slug":"oha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/existing-violations-of-equal-rights\/oha\/","title":{"rendered":"THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS: &#8220;OHA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Office of Hawaiian Affairs\u00c2\u00a0 (OHA) was created by the 1978 Constitutional Convention, to advance the interests of Hawaii&#8217;s citizens with native Hawaiian blood.\u00c2\u00a0 OHA has been one of the primary supporters of the Akaka Bill, both financially and with staff support and lobbying efforts.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1980 the Legislature enacted a law requiring the distribution to OHA of 20% of the gross trust revenues\u00c2\u00a0 (not net trust income after expenses) received by the State from the ceded lands trust established at Statehood in 1959. Because such transfers&#8211;of hundreds of millions of dollars&#8211;constitute a breach of the State&#8217;s duty as trustee, litigation is in progress (Kuroiwa vs Lingle) to require OHA to transfer back to the control of the Executive Branch\u00c2\u00a0 all the funds wrongfully distributed to it.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Hawaiian Affairs\u00c2 (OHA) was created by the 1978 Constitutional Convention, to advance the interests of Hawaii&#8217;s citizens with native Hawaiian blood.\u00c2 OHA has been one of the primary supporters of the Akaka Bill, both financially and with staff support and lobbying efforts. <\/p>\n<p>In 1980 the Legislature enacted a law requiring the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloha4all.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}