Hawaiian Sovereignty (cont'd)

The treasures that I and my children should inherit from all these cultures in Hawaii, indeed, which every child of any ancestry should inherit by the fact that they and their spirits have been ingrained in Hawaii, could not survive in this environment of repression.

We can no longer tolerate this situation for it is bringing certain death to our national life and our cultural birthrights. The Sovereignty for Hawaii Committee is dedicated to fight with all our might for the survival of our nation, for our birthrights as a free and independent people, able to determine our own destiny. Nothing short of sovereignty is our only goal for to accept anything less is to succumb to their control over our destiny.

More and more often we hear the following prayer:

0 Ke Akua,
Return to us our face,
Give us the strength to
rip this American mask
from our flesh,
Give us the strength to reclaim
what is ours,
our Sovereignty,
Let us be Hawaiians
in our own lands.
Amene

Poka Laenui
August 16, 1982

Poka Laenui (Hayden Burgess) is an attorney and activist in the Sovereignty for Hawaii Committee.

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