ABSTRACT
During this same visit, I also saw news reports on “beach people,” people who were living on public beaches. Many “beach people” were Native Hawaiians who had been evicted from their homes while awaiting their promised allotment. Others were protesters, seeking to publicize the long waits for Hawaiian Homelands. They were feared as criminals and
subject to arrest for trespassing. Property prices are high on an island, especially an island with a strong tourism industry and a military outpost. Occupation of the beaches-by the homeless or protesters-was made illegal by the State of Hawaii, the foreign State that built up around the indigenous Hawaiians. I felt sympathy for the indigenous beach people, forced to live in their cars while others benefited from the unlawful usurpation of authority and resources.
