The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act is a federal law and is not only a state law. It separates Hawaiians from native Hawaiians just as the Supreme Court ruling in Rice did by identifying the Nainoa group of Hawaiians as a racial group in US law. A racial group in US law is not eligible for differential treatment as Native Americans, whether or not they are Polynesians or Indians on or off the continent. I wonder why Nainoa's Hawaiians prefer Polynesians as in their ohana instead of native Hawaiians living on the Hawaiian islands. Can Nainoa explain this as part of the PR he promotes?