---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 300313"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "300313"
heading: "Native Hawaiian"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/300313"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 1 — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 3003 — Definitions"
---

# §300313. Native Hawaiian


In this division, the term “Native Hawaiian” means any individual who is a descendant of the aboriginal people who, prior to 1778, occupied and exercised sovereignty in the area that now constitutes Hawaii.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3190.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 300313 | 16 U.S.C. 470w(17). | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 301(17), as added Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4019(a)(12), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4764. |