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MMNHWG REPORT 15 PRELIMINARY FINDINGS BARRIERS A common barrier to deeply understanding NHWG Kanaka Maoli have been left out of dominant dis- violence is that Kanaka Maoli are often misclassi- course and federal resource allocation to address fied as belonging to other racial categories. In the violence against Indigenous communities in the high-profile case of missing six-year-old Isabella U.S.The highly marginalized nature of Kanaka Kalua, mainstream news outlets failed to identify Maoli within the already sparse data on MMIVVG her as Kanaka Maoli. Isabella Kalua was reported contributes to public and legislative sentiment as Caucasian. that MMNHWG is not a problem. Because of the siloed nature of response to There is no uniform and streamlined way that community concerns in Hawaii by island and by data is collected on Kanaka Maoli by various governmental department, data sharing between agencies across Hawaii. Governmental agencies islands and agencies to holistically understand and nonprofit organizations that work closely the problem of MMNHWG and collaboratively with lived experience survivors of NHWG violence enact solutions is not streamlined in a way that either do not collect data that is disaggregated makes data requests timely and feasible for Com- by race or collect data in a way that is not easily munity awareness and research. extractable for use in research. Using an intersec- tional approach to inquiry, sex/gender data is also In addition to inconsistent and absent data col- either not collected or is not disaggregated by lection processes, sexual and physical violence race. For instance, many governmental agencies are highly underreported crimes because of fear collect sex data using the categories of male, fe- of retribution and the shame associated with male and Native Hawaiian, but do not specifically victim-blaming. collect data on Kanaka Maoli females. i - . The lack of disaggregated data is further compli- cated by the inconsistencies in racial definitions when race data is collected. There are four main counties in Hawaii: Kauai, Maui, Honolulu, and Hawaii. The police departments in each coun- ty are responsible for responding to crimes and �EMAIJD recording data for their entire jurisdiction using JUSTICE FOR their own methods. Therefore, data are handled wAIK I K I MISSIN(n AND differently by county.All police department repre- sentatives stated that a barrier to understanding CAPITOL OF NATWE HAWAIIA WC)MEN GIRLS the problem of MMNHWG is because the data is THE PACIFIC q�jp f,IIANU only as good as what is reported at the tirne of the incident. Often tirnes this rneans that race data are not collected at all. Photo: