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”Kinship and Race”
Hawaii State Sen. Colleen Hanabusa raised the key question: are there are two classes in the Hawaiian matter? Yes. The original class is the nearest kinship group. The other class is the most distant, or, farthest kinship group.
The nearest kinship group and the original beneficiaries of Bishop Estate were identical up to 1974.
The farthest kinship group is the beneficiary of the