Objectives

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• Provide Native Hawaiians with competent legal and technical assistance to preserve and protect their water rights, provide for the meaningful exercise of those rights, and to promote their access to water;
• Help increase knowledge, awareness and capabilities of Native Hawaiian individuals and communities regarding their legal rights, and potential threats to them;
• Work with Native Hawaiians to increase their practical knowledge and experience in the law, the legal system and related administrative processes which will empower them to exercise control over community resources;
• Support actions that lead to just settlement of Hawaiians' claims for breaches of the Hawaiian Home Lands and Ceded Lands trusts;
• Help Native Hawaiians maximize their natural, physical and financial resources to stimulate rival, enhancement and maintenance of their traditional lifestyles and culture;
• Provides training and technical assistance to help Native Hawaiians develop economic self-sufficiency through development projects;
• Create an available educational and legal research base to support efforts by Native Hawaiians to reestablish their right to self-determination and to restore and secure their land and all rights to their water and other natural resources.