Hawaiian sovereignty-related organizations and institutions.
Ten contemporary sovereignty-related organizations and institutions profiled in this archive. The set is not exhaustive, and it is not limited to sovereignty organizations: it includes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a State of Hawaiʻi agency, and Naʻi Aupuni, a nonprofit convener of a self-governance process. Inclusion is neither endorsement nor recognition of any claim an organization makes. Nothing here is scored or ranked, and the cards are ordered only by founding year or name — where the documentation behind two organizations differs, the difference is shown through the records themselves. Each card names the stated claim or role, the independent-corroboration status, and the mix of source classes cited; each profile presents ideology, leadership, treaty and court record drawn from documented records, each labeled with its source class (A–E) and verification status, with documented leadership history reported separately under Leadership & Institutional Accountability. Leadership conduct may affect institutional trust and accountability. It does not determine whether the historical Hawaiian Kingdom existed or resolve the legal question of state continuity. Readers are expected to draw their own conclusions. How organizations are selected and how sources are classified is set out on the About page.
Showing 10 of 10 profiled organizations and institutions
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Elected Board · 1978
Sovereignty movementFederal Recognition
Stated claim or role
Pursues Native Hawaiian sovereignty as a right to be exercised through a federally-recognized governing entity; not itself a sovereign.
State agency of Hawaiʻi administering a public trust reported in audited financial statements; operates under state and federal law.
Mililani Trask (founding); General Assembly governance · 1987
Sovereignty movementFederal Recognition
Stated claim or role
Advanced the 'nation-within-a-nation' model — pursues Hawaiian sovereignty as a right to be exercised through a new Native Hawaiian governing entity.
Advanced the nation-within-a-nation model; original governing institutions not documented after the late 1990s; continuing advocacy and public-education activity published by the organization.
Asserts itself as an existing sovereign Polynesian kingdom with its own head of state, constitution, and foreign treaties.
The records reviewed include external agreements, international missions and UN-directed correspondence; the status and independent verification of those records are identified in the full profile.
Convened a self-governance ʻaha to draft a governing document for a future Native Hawaiian nation — exercising the right of sovereignty, not claiming to be the sovereign.
Convened a 2016 ʻaha to draft a governing document; halted by litigation.