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Advocate for Hawaii sovereignty dies, 86
Genesis Namakaokalani Lee Loy / 1919-2006
Genesis Namakaokalani Lee Loy, a retired Hawaiian Telephone Co. supervisor and a founder of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement on the Big Island, died yesterday at his home in the Panaewa Hawaiian Homes area of Hilo. He was 86.
"He was the founder and advocate for restoring the Hawaiian nation," said Patrick Kahawaiolaa, a longtime protester of the policies of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Retired Catholic priest George De Costa remembered a day in 1987 when Lee Loy came to him. "We have to make people aware and work towards sovereignty," Lee Loy told De Costa. "That word was not even used at that time," De Costa said.
Lee Loy and others wanted to restore Ka Lahui Hawaii, the Hawaiian Nation, but they could find no place to meet to write a constitution. "I told them to use our church hall," said De Costa, who was the priest at Malia Puka O Kalani Catholic Church. Ka Lahui eventually grew to a membership of 12,000.
Advocate for Hawaii sovereignty dies, 86
Genesis Namakaokalani Lee Loy / 1919-2006
Genesis Namakaokalani Lee Loy, a retired Hawaiian Telephone Co. supervisor and a founder of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement on the Big Island, died yesterday at his home in the Panaewa Hawaiian Homes area of Hilo. He was 86.
"He was the founder and advocate for restoring the Hawaiian nation," said Patrick Kahawaiolaa, a longtime protester of the policies of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Retired Catholic priest George De Costa remembered a day in 1987 when Lee Loy came to him. "We have to make people aware and work towards sovereignty," Lee Loy told De Costa. "That word was not even used at that time," De Costa said.
Lee Loy and others wanted to restore Ka Lahui Hawaii, the Hawaiian Nation, but they could find no place to meet to write a constitution. "I told them to use our church hall," said De Costa, who was the priest at Malia Puka O Kalani Catholic Church. Ka Lahui eventually grew to a membership of 12,000.