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Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands
2015-12-29 00:52:55| Airlines - Topix.net
Houses in the the Hawaiian homestead community of Papakolea in Honolulu.The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has proposed rules that would allow people applying for a homestead lease to use DNA evidence to prove ancestry. When the state deemed Leighton Pang Kee ineligible for one of the most valuable benefits available to Native Hawaiians - land at almost no cost - because he couldn't show that he was at least 50 percent Hawaiian, he sued.
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