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Photo: Hawaiian delegation representing OHA at the Berlin State Museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK)

SPK returns ancestral remains from Hawaiʻi

BERLIN, GERMANY (Feb. 11, 2022) – The Berlin State Museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) handed over 32 iwi kūpuna (ancestral remains) to representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) today. The ancestral remains have been in the keeping of the SPK Berlin since 2011. At…

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Iwi kūpuna repatriation in Jena helps heal historical injustices

A ceremony at Friedrich Schiller University Jena today saw iwi kūpuna (ancestral remains) handed over to a Hawaiian delegation representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).

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Göttingen University hands over iwi kūpuna from collections to OHA delegation

When the anatomist Georg Thilenius excavated a number of skulls and skeletons on the island of Maui in 1897, he violated the prevailing Hawaiian laws that prohibited the removal of human remains from burial sites

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Übersee-Museum Bremen returns ancestral remains to Hawaiʻi

Bremen, Germany (Feb. 8, 2022) – At a solemn handover ceremony today, eight iwi kūpuna (ancestral remains) from the collections held in the Übersee-Museum Bremen were returned to representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) from the United States (U.S.), State of Hawaiʻi. Edward Halealoha Ayau, Kalehua Caceres and Mana Caceres took part in…

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Hawaiian delegation to bring home 58 iwi kūpuna from Germany and Austria

BREMEN, GERMANY (Feb. 7, 2022) – This week a delegation representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) will repatriate a total of 58 iwi kūpuna (ancestral Hawaiian skeletal remains) from four institutions in Germany and one in Austria that were stolen over 100…

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Testimony of OHA’s Board Chair Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

On February 2, 2022, Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey, Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs’ Oversight Hearing on “The Long Journey Home: Advancing the Native American Graves…

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OHA expands emergency financial assistance program for Native Hawaiians

Beginning Feb. 1, 2022, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs will expand the assistance available to Native Hawaiians through its Ka Wailele Emergency Financial Assistance Program.

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OHA Hawaiʻi Island Trustee Keola Lindsey stepping down

HONOLULU (Jan. 31, 2022 ) – Office of Hawaiian Affairs Hawaiʻi Island Trustee Keola Lindsey has announced that he is vacating his position.   OHA’s Board of Trustees received a letter of resignation from Lindsey which stated that effective Feb. 1, 2022, he is…

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OHA bill calls out state’s $63.8 million annual under payment in PLT revenues owed to Hawaiians

HONOLULU (January 28, 2022) – The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has introduced in its 2022 Legislative package a bill to receive its legally mandated 20 percent of the estimated $394 million annual revenue from the Public Land Trust.  The legislation…

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OHA Board Chair salutes appointees to the President’s Advisory Commission on AANHPI

On December 20, President Biden announced his intention to appoint leaders as commissioners to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, which was established in May. The Commission will advise the President on ways the…

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