And who brought the issue to the board, was it not Bob Lindsey himself? He worked extensively with IDG and Huʻena - are you ignoring his own advocacy to vilify hers? And so he decided to give half instead of the full 1.2 million - could that have something to do with HELCO essentially choosing itself in the RFP, instead a Native Hawaiian group that advocated for a native-to-native business model that assures community benefit? Cmon bro, stop cherry picking.

Federal Recognition is an impediment to indigenous self-determination when it comes by way of a State initiated and manipulated process, period. Ive tried many times over to explain that to you, but you would rather ignore that point. Just because there are Hawaiians in Gov., doesn't override the States involvement. If the effort towards recognition and self-determination came organically from the community and Hawaiian people, then thats a completely different story, and would likely be met with less resistance amongst the Lahui.