"today's natives never had chance to prevent colonial history's affirmative acts that sterilized their ancestors' traditions and land culture."
The people and Kings of the time welcomed the changes, just as changes occurring today. People a hundred and fifty years  later don't have the right to say that decisions made at the time by the Kings to embrace the English language, for instance, instead of the myriad of  languages spoken in the Islands in the late 1800s, was wrong.  That would be disrespectful and arrogant.
You could easily replace the word "native" with "all people".  Are people 150 years from now going to call commercial business farming "sterilization of human's rights to agricultural traditions, and land culture"? That just silly.

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