Administration of native Hawaiian home lands: joint hearings before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on oversight hearing on the administration of native Hawaiian home landsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 |
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