Naka Nathaniel

We were supposed to meet our former landlords from California for lunch at the resort’s beachside restaurant, but I couldn’t do what had been a generally accepted practice here in Hawai’i: stop at a guardhouse for permission to enter. As an Indigenous person, I felt enervated, that it was wrong. I hate pulling up to a gated community in Hawai’i, but the islands are full of these artificial barriers intended to create paradise for visitors. What’s extra galling is that all of Hawai’i’s beaches an…

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After the death of an 11-year-old Boy Scout, Manuel ‘Manny’ Carvalho, Naka Nathaniel writes: “BSA needs to ultimately get guns out of scouting completely, which may take some time to accomplish ... But in the meantime, Scouting’s relationship with gun use must change immediately.”