Transcript: Stephen P. Bradley, M.D.

Recognition of cultural identity has led more individuals to identify themselves as Native Hawaiians

[Bradley:]: But there are quite a few Native Hawaiians around and some of one hundred percent blood, many mixed blood, but culturally identified as Native Hawaiians, and what’s really been funny—I was at a conference in California—it was called the He Huliau Conference. It was a health conference for all of the Asian Pacific Island peoples, and one thing came out is the fact that back early days when they did census there were very few— 2,500 people identified themselves as Native Hawaiians, and that number has been growing ever since after the recognition of cultural identity and work by many of the activists to really instill, to re-teach and tell people what they are. Now there are many, many more people that are identifying themselves, so the identity is very important, and then what we do with it is part of what we do here in the clinic.