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Native Advisory Group Ahamoku Pushes Back Against Bill That Would Change Oversight
Summary
Members of the Ahamoku advisory system and affiliated civic clubs opposed HP 2047, warning it would remove cultural autonomy and place the group under state agency control; lawmakers signaled a path to amend and a defect date, and asked for more detail on funding and oversight.
The committee spent substantial time Thursday on HP 2047, a bill proposing changes to the Ahamoku advisory committee — an island‑based body that brings Native Hawaiian generational knowledge into state resource decisions. Multiple civic and cultural organizations, including leaders from Ahamoku, the Kola Foundation and Hawaiian civic clubs, urged deferral and expressed strong opposition to statutory changes that they said would strip the body of its autonomy.
Leymana Damache, speaking for Ahamoku, said the measure “takes the…
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