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 115 STAT. 1934 PUBLIC LAW 107-110—JAN. 8, 2002 reaffirmed the special relationship that existed between the United States and the Hawaiian people by retaining the legal responsibility to enforce the public trust responsibility of the State of Hawaii for the betterment of the conditions of Native Hawaiians, as defined in section 201(a) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920. "(12) The United States has recognized and reaffirmed that— "(A) Native Hawaiians have a cultural, historic, and land-based link to the indigenous people who exercised sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands, and that group has never relinquished its claims to sovereignty or its sovereign lands; "(B) Congress does not extend services to Native Hawaiians because of their race, but because of their unique status as the indigenous people of a once sovereign nation as to whom the United States has established a trust relationship; "(C) Congress has also delegated broad authority to administer a portion of the Federal trust responsibility to the State of Hawaii; "(D) the political status of Native Hawaiians is comparable to that of American Indians and Alaska Natives; and "(E) the aboriginal, indigenous people of the United States have— "(i) a continuing right to autonomy in their internal affairs; and "(ii) an ongoing right of self-determination and self-governance that has never been extinguished. "(13) The political relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people has been recognized and reaffirmed by the United States, as evidenced by the inclusion of Native Hawaiians in— "(A) the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 2991 et seq.); "(B) the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (42 U.S.C. 1996); "(C) the National Museum of the American Indian Act (20 U.S.C. 80q et seq.); "(D) the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.); "(E) the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.); "(F) the Native American Languages Act (25 U.S.C. 2901 et seq.); "(G) the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act (20 U.S.C. 4401 et seq.); "(H) the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.); and "(I) the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.). "(14) In 1981, Congress instructed the Office of Education to submit to Congress a comprehensive report on Native Hawaiian education. The report, entitled the 'Native Hawaiian Educational Assessment Project', was released in 1983 and

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