We've criticized this tribalization measure at length over the past couple of years, and columnist George Will doesn't have any higher opinion of it than we do:

Today, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, when accurately described, is opposed by a large majority of Hawaiians and supported by only a bare majority of the approximately 240,000 Native Hawaiians in the state. ...

Reparations? We shall see. Independence -- secession? "That could be," [Sen. Daniel] Akaka, 83, has said, depending on "my grandchildren and great-grandchildren."