You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
Anonymous
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who’s really going to administer this stuff.
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who’s really going to administer this stuff.
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ‘Why are we doing this? Why don’t the Hawaiians have control?’ ‘Well, we have no mechanism to do it,’ I was told.
I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ‘Why are we doing this? Why don’t the Hawaiians have control?’ ‘Well, we have no mechanism to do it,’ I was told.
Land in Hawaii is money. What I’m talking about here is ceded land – land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.
Land in Hawaii is money. What I’m talking about here is ceded land – land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
When there wasn’t any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
When there wasn’t any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state’s collecting lease money because all of a sudden ‘worthless’ land now has an airport on it.
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state’s collecting lease money because all of a sudden ‘worthless’ land now has an airport on it.
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.