HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

16

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

COMMENDING DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE FOR HER INVOLVEMENT IN THE ADVOCACY FOR SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS

 

 


WHEREAS, kupuna also means ancestor and includes the many generations before us who by their spiritual wisdom and presence guide us through personal, familial or community difficulties, we look to our kupuna to help us find and fulfill our pathways through life; and

 

WHEREAS, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE was raised in the Ahupua'a O Kahana and Maunalaha during a simpler life by her parents, Daniel Frances Beirne and Mary Kaliko Kawaauhau Hart with four of her siblings; and

 

WHEREAS, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE'S passion for education took her to the Kamehameha Schools, McKinley High School and earned an associate, bachelor and master's degree from the University of Hawai'i; and

 

WHEREAS, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE worked over twenty years WITH THE Outrigger Hotels, serves as a consultant for Native Hawaiian Protocol and Consultants Services, represented House District 46 in the seventeenth legislature (1993-1994); and

 

WHEREAS, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE is very actively involved in her community, served over 10 years as President of Ko'olauloa Hawaiian Civic Club, and the Hawaiian civic club movement, leading the charge for issues pertinent to all of the residents in the Ko'olauloa moku, North Shore communities and all of Hawai'i; and

 

WHEREAS, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE served with the Coalition of Hawaiian Organizations back in the seventies and the Hui Na'au'ao in the eighties to educate our people on the issue of Sovereignty known today as Self-Determination; and

 

WHEREAS, in 1995, DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE was appointed by Governor John Waihe'e to the Hawai'i Sovereignty Elections Council as a councilmember and a delegate representing Ko'olauloa Moku for the AHA 'OIWI know as the Native Hawaiian Convention, to offer a form of government through an election process; and

 

WHEREAS, most recently DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE served on the 2016 'Aha for Na'i Aupuni, solely to help establish a path for Hawaiian self-determination; now, therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawai‘i, Regular Session of 2019, that this body, in the malama of Kaulua and the rising of the Hoaka, this 6th day of February 2019, hereby commends and congratulates DANIELLE ULULANI BEIRNE with over forty years of involvement in the advocacy for self-determination for Native Hawaiians and offers its warmest aloha and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.

 

 

 

 

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