Our constitutional culture (and our courts) will need recognize efforts by governments overthrown by the United States to resist that illegal annexation. The schools aim to preserve their nation by teaching the language and culture to their citizens. Resistance to colonialism is not discrimination.

The argument is that, because the school uses contracts (again, private school and does not receive federal funds) the U.S. may enforce its own vision of how best to preserve Native Hawai'ian language and culture (after overthrowing their government): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

The lawsuit is "creative" in that the plaintiffs represented by SFFA haven't been denied admission to the school--they haven't even applied because of the "humiliation" of applying. The actual claim is brought as a violation not of 1983 or Title VI, but 1981/2 mma.prnewswire.com/media/280100...

You are very generous! I hope to get to say hello!

"The Declaration of Independence opened the world to democratic possibility, sparking a wave of revolutions, yet it also marked the narrowing of political possibilities within the nascent United States."

"The colonists sought not just territory, but unchallenged dominion. To achieve this, they needed to erase the legitimacy of Native governance and justify dispossession. It was precisely because Natives mirrored the colonists’ own ideals (autonomy, law, liberty) that they had to be cast as savages."