Check Out Upcoming Event at UC Berkeley!

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CENTER FOR RACE & GENDER'S PACIFIC ISLANDS RESEARCH WORKING GROUP presents:
"FIGHTING FOR THE HAWAIIAN 'CEDED LANDS': HISTORY & CONSEQUENCES OF HAWAIIVs OHA et al (2009)"

This workshop will examine the latest land struggle in the Hawaiian Islands. We will trace the history of the “ceded lands” and the events leading up to the March 31 U.S. Supreme Court decision in State of Hawaiiv. Office of Hawaiian Affairs et al, No. 07–1372 (2009). At issue is the State of Hawaii’s ability to sell portions of the “ceded lands” which Hawaiian activists remind us were seized, not ceded. This workshop will pay particular attention to questions that remain open since the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, including who is the “public” of the Hawaiian Islands and what are the legal interrelationships between today’s State of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

When & Where : WEDS APRIL 29 @ 5:00-8:00PM. Center for Race & Gender, 6th Floor Barrows, University of California,Berkeley.

SPEAKER BIOS:
*JESSIE K. KEOLA MINIER-is an attorney in Silicon Valley, with a practicethat focuses on compliance with federal and state corporate and securitieslaws. In addition, he has conducted research and prepared analyses oflegal issues confronting Native Hawaiians and kama’aina of Hawai'i.

*DR. LAURA LEHUA YIM- is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofEnglish at San Francisco State University. Her research and teaching workfocuses on Renaissance English literature and culture, especially domesticand colonial reformulations of epistemology, notions of the person, andland and water law. Her other academic and activist work includesstrategic analyses of political, economic and social institutions inHawai'i.

**Food will be provided.-This workshop is organized by the Pacific Islands Research Working Groupand it is generously sponsored by a grant from The Center for Race & Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.

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