The following groups, entities and individuals from around the islands and across the nation have pledged their support for federal legislation extending official recognition to Native Hawaiians as an indigenous people, with rights and entitlements comparable to those of Native American and Alaska Native peoples:

 

Hawai'i Organizations & Entities

Hawai'i State Legislature                                                        Hui Kakoo Aina Ho'opulapula

I Mua Group

Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs                                      Kamehameha Alumni Association

Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement                              Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors - Mamakakaua        Royal Order of Kamehameha I

Department of Hawaiian Home Lands                            State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations

Hale O Na Ali'i O Hawai'i                                                        Japanese American Citizens League (Honolulu Chapter)

 

National & Regional Entities

 

Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN)  Represents over 200 Alaska Native villages, corporations, and associations.

 

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations

AAPCHO is a national association representing community health organizations dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration and leadership that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders within the United States, its territories and freely associated states, primarily through our member community health clinics.

 

Governors Interstate Indian Council

Represents 21 state Indian Affairs agencies and organizations.

 

Japanese American Citizens League (National)

JACL is the nationŐs oldest and largest Asian Pacific American civil rights organizations with over 24,000 members in twenty-three states.

 

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

LCCR consists of more than 180 national organization, representing persons of color, women, children, labor unions, individuals with disabilities, older Americans, major religious groups, gays and lesbians and civil liberties and human rights groups.

 

League of United Latin American Citizens

With approximately 115,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States.

 

League of United Latin American Citizens (California)

 

Mexican American Legal Defense Education Fun

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is the leading nonprofit Latino litigation, advocacy and educational outreach institution in the United States.

 

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium

NAPALC is one of the nation's leading experts on issues of importance to the Asian American community including: affirmative action, anti-Asian violence prevention/race relations, census, immigrant rights, language access, and voting rights.

 

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The NAACP is the nationŐs oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its half-million adult and youth members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private
sectors.

 

National Association of Social Workers-Hawai'i Chapter

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Hawaii Chapter represents over 1,000 social workers in Hawaii.

 

National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

National CAPACD's mission is to enhance the capacity and ability of community based organizations to conduct community development activities for the Asian and Pacific Islander American communities.

 

National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)

NCAI is the nationŐs oldest and largest American Indian and Alaska Native organization, representing over 250 member tribes.

 

National Council of La Raza

NCLR is the largest constituency-based national Hispanic organization, serving all Hispanic nationality groups in all regions of the country. NCLR has over 270 formal affiliates who together serve 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia Ń and a broader network of more than 30,000 groups and individuals nationwide Ń reaching more than three and a half million Hispanics annually.

 

National Indian Education Association

Established in 1969, NIEA is the largest national Indian organization of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian educators, administrators, parents and students in the United States, providing a forum to discuss and act upon issues affecting the education of Indigenous people.

 

National Organization of Pacific Islanders in America (NOPIA)

NOPIA is committed to advocating Pacific Islander Americans' causes by providing a strong, clear voice at the national level. NOPIA is dedicated to ensuring the protection of rights and fair treatment of all Pacific Islander Americans through legislative and policy initiatives at all levels of government.

 

Organization of Chinese Americans

OCA is dedicated to securing the rights of Chinese American and Asian American citizens and permanent residents through legislative and policy initiatives at all levels of the government. OCA aims to embrace the hopes and aspirations of the nearly 2 million citizens and residents of Chinese ancestry in the United States as well as to better the lives of the 10 million Asian Americans across the country.

 

Individual Supporters

Daniel K. Akaka, U.S. Senator, Hawaii

Daniel K. Inouye, U.S. Senator, Hawaii

Ed Case, U.S. Representative, Hawaii

Neil Abercrombie, U.S. Representative

Linda Lingle, Governor, State of Hawaii

Alan M. Arakawa, Mayor, County of Maui

Harry Reid, U.S. Senator, Nevada

Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator, Alaska

Eni Faleomavaega, U.S. Representative, American Samoa

Howard Dean, Democratic Candidate for President

Joe Shirley, President, Navajo Nation

Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator Utah