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The minutes provide comprehensive documentation of the Hawaiian Homes Commission activities and decisions since its inception in 1921. They consist of minutes of the public portion of the commission regular meetings held monthly at various homestead communities throughout the state. Include minutes to public portions of special commission meetings held once or twice a year. Meeting notices, agenda, staff reports and recommendations, and exhibits are filed with the minutes. The Commission’s decisions regarding lease activity, capital improvement projects and infrastructure improvements, development plans, management plans, land exchanges, licenses issued for utility and access easements, government loan applications, lot subdivisions, departmental personnel, and Commission finances are documented in the minutes.

The records of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands comprises of two series: Minutes of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, dating from 1921 to 2010; and the Public Relation Files from the Information and Community Relations Office, dating from 1921 to 1994.

The Minutes of the Hawaiian Home Commission are of public proceedings and provide comprehensive coverage of the policymaking and decision making activities of the commission since its inception. There are gaps for minutes to the Hawaiian Homes Commission meetings in October, November, and December 1977 (meeting numbers 209, 210, and 211). Minutes dated 1921 to 1967 were bound by the Commission prior to transfer to the archives; Minutes from 1968 to 1974 were filed in pressboard binders by the commission prior to transfer to the Archives. For preservation purposes, bound minutes from 1960 to 1974 were disbound during processing.

The Public Relations Files of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands consist of directors’ speeches, testimony, interviews, news releases, radio and television scripts, flyers, and programs. The bulk of the collection are records of homesteads awarded to the native Hawaiians from late 1960’s to early 1990’s.