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108 STAT. 3794 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 "(B) a descendant, in the first or second degree, of an individual described in subparagraph (A); "(C) considered by the Secretary of the Interior to be an Indian for any purpose; "(D) an Eskimo, Aleut, or other Alaska Native; or "(E) a member of an organized Indian group that received a grant under the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect the day preceding the date of enactment of the Act entitled the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994'. 20 USC 7882. "SEC. 9162. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. "(a) SUBPART 1. —For the purpose of carrying out subpart 1 of this part, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Education $61,300,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. "(b) SUBPARTS 2 THROUGH 4. —For the purpose of carrying out subparts 2, 3, and 4 of this part, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Education $26,000,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. "(c) SUBPART 5. — For the purpose of carrying out subpart 5 of this part, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Education $3,775,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years; Nati^.^ "PART B—NATIVE HAWAHANS 2?USC 790l!^' "SEC. 9201. SHORT TITLE. 'This part may be cited as the 'Native Hawaiian Education Act'. 20 USC 7902. "SEC. 9202. FINDINGS. 'The Congress finds and declares as follows: "(1) Native Hawaiians are a distinct and unique indigenous people with a historical continuity to the original inhabitants of the Hawaiian archipelago, whose society was organized as a nation and internationaly recognized as such by the United States, Britain, France, and Japan, as evidenced by treaties governing friendship, commerce, and navigation. "(2) At the time of the arrival of the first non-indigenous people in Hawai'i in 1778, the Native Hawaiian people lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient subsistence social system based on a communal land tenure system with a sophisticated language, culture, and religion. "(3) A unified monarchial government of the Hawaiian Islands was established in 1810 under Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawai'i. "(4) From 1826 until 1893, the United States recognized the sovereignty and independence of the Kjngdom of Hawai'i, which was established in 1810 under Kamehameha I, extended full and complete diplomatic recognition to the Kingdom of Hawai'i, and entered into treaties and conventions with the Kingdom of Hawai'i to govern friendship, commerce and navigation in 1826, 1842, 1849, 1875, and 1887. "(5) In 1893, the sovereign, independent, internationaly recognized, and indigenous government of Hawai'i, the Kingdom of Hawai'i, was overthrown by a small group of non-Hawaiians, including United States citizens, who were assisted in their