Feeble Echoes of the Heart: A Postcolonial Legal Struggle in Hawai`i

This article analyzes the legal discourse of native Hawaiians opposed to proposed federal recognition. We argue that this contemporary contest over the means of self-determination reveals the ways in which law and rights provide inescapable idioms for indigenous sovereignty at the same time that the...

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Published in:Law, culture and the humanities culture and the humanities, 2008-06, Vol.4 (2), p.224-247
Main Authors: Milner, Neal, Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Discourse analysis
Idioms
Law
Native peoples
Postcolonialism
Recognition
Sovereignty
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Summary:This article analyzes the legal discourse of native Hawaiians opposed to proposed federal recognition. We argue that this contemporary contest over the means of self-determination reveals the ways in which law and rights provide inescapable idioms for indigenous sovereignty at the same time that they form the primary obstacles that must be overcome. Strategic maneuvering through this postcolonial legal dilemma is shown to produce new ideas of law's authority, challenging dominant notions of place and time, as well as the performance of legal recognition.
ISSN:1743-8721
1743-9752
DOI:10.1177/1743872108091475