About 100 people from various Native Hawaiian groups rallied in front of the state Capitol today to demonstrate their objection to Gov. Linda Lingle's position on ceded lands, those lands that belonged to the Hawaiian government and were taken over at the 1898 overthrow.

A Hawai'i Supreme Court decision last January bars the state from selling or transferring ceded lands until claims by Native Hawaiians to those lands are resolved.

State Attorney General Mark Bennett appealed that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear the case in mid-February.

The state's position is that, like other states, the U.S. granted Hawai'i the full authority to buy or sell lands put under its jurisdiction by the federal government.