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OHA Hawaiian Registry Program

The OHA Hawaiian Registry Ancestry Verification Program provides Hawaiians, worldwide, an OHA Hawaiian Registry ancestry verification color photo card, after verifying your indigenous Hawaiian ancestry through your biological parentage.

The OHA Hawaiian Registry ancestry verification cards enables you to apply to programs of the office of Hawaiian Affairs, and it may be used when registering for Kau Inova

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Consumer Micro Loans

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Strategic Plan

A New Direction
Our Hawaiian ancestors understood that the well-being of our community rested upon the inter-relationship of how we conduct ourselves, steward the islands we call home, and fulfill the responsibility of caring for our families, all within the physical and spiritual realms. They also understood that successfully maintaining lökahi meant careful observation, knowledge gathering, and informed decision making to achieve pono. OHA is striving to embrace this time-tested wisdom through our new Strategic Plan. During the past year, we listened intently to voices in our communities to better understand the key issues facing Native Hawaiians in the coming years.
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Advocacy

Advocacy

Advocacy means making changes to laws, policies, and practices which broadly impact the Priorities the Board of Trustees has approved in the OHA Strategic Plan. This includes community outreach to mobilize the community, monitoring activities to identify harmful policies and laws, and advocacy initiatives to change laws, policies and practices in ways that improve conditions for Native Hawaiians as outlined in the Priorities and Strategic Results. Advocacy is co...
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OHA at the Legislature

As part of its mandate to advocate for Native Hawaiians, each year OHA submits a package of proposed bills to the Hawaiians State Legislature, and the agency’s Board of Trustees also votes to take positions on a wide variety of legislation impacting the Hawaiian community.