FlyingSquid , 7 months ago

Please read the article, because she did do a lot when she was alive and more of her fortune would have gone to the Indigenous Hawaiian people except her partner married her after she was impaired to get a hold of her fortune and an unofficially adopted son as well as some others also went to court for a share of the money.

The indigenous Hawaiian people have been treated terribly since colonization, but it sounds like she was doing things to make people’s lives better. She was not the problem. The problem is outlined in the article by Dr. Naleen Andrade:

“Quite frankly, the needs of Hawaiians in education, in social welfare, in housing, in health far exceed the capacity of these trusts,” she said. “They augment what federal and state dollars should be doing for Hawaii’s Indigenous peoples.”

So don’t blame Abigail Kawānanakoa, blame the state and federal governments.