amp Blood Quantum By Jasey Frasco S ara DuVoisin Background Information To eligible to apply for Hawaiian Homelands You must be at least 18 years old You must be at least 50 of native Hawaiian Blood ID: 483202
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Slide1
Hawaiian Homelands& Blood Quantum
By:
Jasey
Frasco
,
S
ara
DuVoisin Slide2
Background Information
To
eligible
to apply for Hawaiian Homelands:
You must be at least 18 years old
You must be at least 50% of native Hawaiian Blood
The general rule of thumb in determining 50 percent blood quantum is to submit enough documentation tracing your genealogy to your full Hawaiian ancestor(s
).
They primarily use birth certificates, but sometimes except secondary sources.
The are three types of Homestead Leases:
Residential, Agricultural,
Pastoral
Some Benefits
of Hawaiian Homelands
:
99 year lease
Annual lease rent of $1 per year
Exemption on tax on landSlide3
ProblemHawaiian homelands only offers leases to Hawaiians who have 50% or more of native blood, causing many Hawaiians not to have access to these lands.Slide4
Probing Questions How can you classified if someone has 50% Hawaiian DNA?
You can do this by extracting DNA from bone marrow of ancient Hawaiians (before western contact) to test if you can find a Hawaiian genetic strand. Due to bones being
kapu
this theory can not be tested and has not been able to be tested.
What is Blood Quantum?
Blood quantum is the percentage measurement of your DNA which is
from a certain ethnicity (
eg
: Hawaiian, English,
ect
..) According to Wikipedia Blood quantum is a
term that describes legislation enacted in the United States to define membership in Native American Tribes or Nations. This legislation is used by Hawaiian Homelands to determine land ownership benefits through the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands[DHHL
]
Can
you single out a Hawaiian DNA strand?
As stated before researchers have not had the ability to test if you could. The only thing that is certain is the Polynesian motif. According to the
article “A Polynesian Motif on the Y Chromosome: Population Structure in Remote
Ocenia
,”
the Polynesian
motif is a mitochondrial DNA marker of ancestral Polynesian
communities.
In other words it’s basically scientist’s
theories on the origin of Polynesian
people.
One
hypothesis being
Taiwan as their homeland
and the other being Melanesian.Slide5
SolutionsTesting bone
marrow to single out the Hawaiian strand of DNA before it came into contact with foreigners.
Lowering the blood quantum
percentage to 25% so more Hawaiians have access to the land. Being a ‘Hawaiian’ shouldn’t be quantified by their blood, because if you are part Hawaiian then if you trace your genealogy back far enough you come from Native Hawaiians as well. Slide6
Works Cited"Applying for Hawaiian Home Lands."
â
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
. State of Hawaii,
n.d.
Web. 20 Feb. 2013.
"Blood Quantum Laws."
Wikipedia
. Wikimedia Foundation, 02 Feb. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.
"Human Biology."
"Polynesian Motif on the Y Chromosome" by Murray P. Cox, Alan J.
Redd
Et Al.
WSU Press, 2012. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.
"Polynesian Origins: Insights from the Y Chromosome."
Polynesian Origins: Insights from the Y Chromosome
. The National Academy of Sciences, Mar. 2000. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.