2 mins clip:
The season 2 episode 9 “adam ruins his vacation” goes into a little more depth, longer segment in the last 1/3 of the show. Honestly, as shocking as those 2 minutes might seem, it’s oversimplified, and pre-sugar-robber-baron takeover, the monarchy was not some idyllic garden of eden.
However, they did have their palace electrically lit prior to the White House, so maybe they were fine on their own. Jokes aside, I am here as a mainlander skeptic that will stay centrist in saying Hawaii had shown a self awareness of their position in the world and would have eventually found a beneficial partnership that brought more than it took from them. Fierce factions angrily fight, and there’s multiple factions on each side of the argument that get very passionate. It’s difficult to even talk about the complexity of the history because it’s immediately politicized by some factions, suggested it’s all misinformation from other factions, etc. There’s also a tendency for people to want history relatable in simple, linear narratives, and Hawaii proves that to be absolutely impossible. All of what happened started rolling when Kamehameha sought Western tools (weapons), western thinking in pursuing the monarchy’s personal interests over the people. It’s possible this story is the story of having no possible outcome other than the bad guys winning.
I’ve been fascinated by Hawaiian history since I was 10 and found out almost all “culture & heritage” was utter nonsense and horrendous marketing. But then I started unearthing the real history and became OBSESSED, specifically because it’s SO UNBELIEVABLY DARK.
No one is a winner… evil men and crooks. The clip glances over the monarchy’s serious problems, and messing up so royally. PUN!
But beheadings and killing families (often their own) and stealing Mana from everyone, running it into the ground, and becoming bankrupt such that Kamehameha tried to pledge the islands to Britain. I used to be on the surface level of “Dole, Missionaries, and US Marines” stole the islands, creating a militia against the US’ orders”, but honestly the monarchy was also terrifying.
Stolen into Statehood, Hawaii has solved a bunch of problems… For example, the islands have a 5 day food supply. If imports stopped, it’s 5 days to pineapples and fishing, and pineapples aren’t even as widely grown. And hell if I am eating poi. So even Hawaiians have multiple factions that disagree passionately within the sovereignty movement, and there’s no easy answer between statehood and the monarchy, but without considering immediate pros and cons of nation-hood, The United States needs to make reparations and officially recognize what we did, and how it all went down.
So it’s also the most complex history… in researching, someone commented that it’s easy to look back in anger, and yes many people do not know this felonious history. However, there’s so many positives and great things that have happened since statehood, and there’s people working hard to make it a better place. That’s not even considering the complexity of what it would mean to be sovereign, and all those moving parts, even as an intellectual vs real discussion. I’m a nobody, but in my mind recognition of the true events, education, official reparations, and coordinated efforts to be as respectful to the people and their land as possible.
Also, this is not easy to find in a single place. Someone else had mentioned an HBO Series on the true history of Hawaii would be as popular as Game of Thrones, and it’s quite possible more insane. However, if you did tell the profoundly disheartening real story, it would anger and astonish just about anyone and everyone involved. This isn’t fiction, these were real lives.
The 1993 resolution didn’t have any practical binding or legal impact, so although an attempt, its likely not considered doing very much of anything at all.
More reading:
The Hawaiian Kingdom Was (And Is Still To This Day) A Sovereign Country Illegally Overthrown By Foreign Sugar Barons, Missionaries, And US Marines In 1893. Overthrow of the Kingdom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hawaii
The US Attempted To Annex Hawai?i By The Only Means Legal According To US Law – Treaty – But That Vote Failed In Congress. The US Then Used A Resolution – The Newlands Resolution – To Acquire Hawai?i in 1898.
Newlands resolution – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution
1 page PDF – http://hawaiianbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Newlands-Rez.pdf
But According To The US Constitution, The Only Way Foreign Territory Can Be Acquired Is By Treaty – And By Mutual Consent.
98% Of All Hawaiians Alive At The Time Opposed Becoming Part Of The US – http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/annexation.php
The Statehood Vote In 1959 Was Fraudulent On Two Counts – The People Of Hawai?i Never Gave Their Consent, The 1959 Statehood Ballot Never Gave Other Options – Only Yes Or No Choices For Statehood Were Offered – http://www.hawaii-nation.org/1959ballot.jpg
Of That 35%, 94% Voted For Statehood. But Those Voters Were Mainly American Citizens Who Settled In Hawai`i To Live, US Military And Their Family Members – http://statehoodhawaii.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/figure4.jpg
64% Of All Elligible Voters Never Voted At All – http://statehoodhawaii.org/2009/05/12/the-statehood-plebiscite/
The Vast Majority Of Hawaiians Boycotted The Statehood Vote
Sources
http://hawaiifakestate.com/Hawaii_-_Not_A_State.html
Native Hawaiian Bar Association – http://hawaiianbar.org/
Wikipedia
Additional information-
Native History: When Hawai?i Was Riding the Wave Toward Sovereignty
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/native-history-when-hawaii-was-riding-the-wave-toward-sovereignty/
Is Hawai?i Really a State of the Union? – https://www.hawaii-nation.org/statehood.html
Pa?a Ke Aupuni: The Reel History of Hawai?i (Documentary 1:02:52)
Pa?a Ke Aupuni is a unique 60-minute hand- drawn, animated film that gets straight to the point. It zooms in on key facts explaining how the Hawaiian Kingdom came to be, how it evolved to stand firmly on the international world stage of sovereign nations, and how the United States came to claim Hawai‘i. In many ways, Ke Aupuni Hawai‘i, the Hawaiian government, remains pa‘a—steadfast and enduring. Yet “pa‘a” can also describe something that is stuck or retained, in this case by powers holding fast to control over Hawai‘i. Pa‘a Ke Aupuni lays bare the realities of this history.For more information visit kamakakoi.com/paa.
http://oiwi.tv/oha/paa-ke-aupuni/
Political Mythologies Deconstructed- Kaleikoa Ka‘eo (short powerful video 14:34)
Ausust 3rd 2017- a group with the Hawai‘i State Teachers Association – the NEA affiliate union representing the public school teachers of Hawai‘i – successfully convinced the teachers of America to approve New Business Item 37, which stated:
“The NEA will publish an article that documents the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893, the prolonged illegal occupation of the United States in the Hawaiian Kingdom and the harmful effects that this occupation has had on the Hawaiian people and resources of the land.”
https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/
And for all those wanting to dive even deeper.
History of the illegal overthrow of The Hawaiian Kingdom
Origins of The Hawaiian Kingdom (3:47)
The 1839 Constitution- Ke Kumuk?n?wai a me n? K?n?wai o ko Hawai’i Pae ‘ ?ina (15 page PDF)
http://hooilina.org/collect/journal/index/assoc/HASH0166.dir/5.pdf
Political history
https://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/political-history.shtml
What is a Hawaiian subject? Explanation of a Hawaiian Subject and a Hawaiian National. (4:08)
Attempted overthrow of The Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 (5:21)
Tears streaming down the face of a nation (4:07)
The K??? anti- annexation petitions of 1897 (11:30)
Honoring Our K?puna and “The K??? Petition”
http://www.kaleimailealii.org/activities/kue-petition
K??? Petitions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K???_Petitions
The annexation that Never was (3:10)
The Big Lie begins (2:10)
1993 US Apology Bill To The Hawaiian People (4:10)
L?hui Rising (23:31)
L?hui
http://www.kumukahi.org/units/na_kanaka/kaiaulu/lahui
This is also interesting:
Dr. Keanu Sai~ The current role of the Acting Hawaiian Kingdom government in the prolonged occupation.
Sai talks about how there is a state of war between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom, his efforts as lead agent for the Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the ongoing education of L?hui.
I would also add this piece of history from the past that very few know about in Hawai?i or elsewhere.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) has recently uploaded a Case Repository of current cases and past cases that came before the international court. Listed as one of the past cases that came before the PCA was Lance Larsen v. The Hawaiian Kingdom. The international arbitration began on November 8, 1999 and ended February 5, 2001.
The PCA explicitly recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State and the actingGovernment as its representative in arbitration proceedings instituted by a Hawaiian subject, Lance Larsen. If the Hawaiian Kingdom did not exist today as a State under international law, and there was no lawful government representing the Hawaiian Kingdom, the case would have never been accepted by the PCA. This is also recognition that the Hawaiian Kingdom was never annexed by the United States, but rather occupied since the Spanish-American War in 1898.
The international court’s explicit recognition of the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State under international law and the acting Government is definitive and removes all doubt of Hawai‘i legal status under international law.
International Court Recognizes The Hawaiian Kingdom as a State
In addition to this I would also point out that The Kingdom of Hawai?i was self sufficient before the overthrow. There was no starvation, homelessness, desecration of sacred sites, abuse of natural resources, or US military toxicity.
The literacy rate was astounding in 1820. The constitutions of both 1839 & 1840 were dynamic beyond measure. The international relations were unparalleled for a nation of the size.
http://hooilina.org/collect/journal/index/assoc/HASH0166.dir/5.pdf
Looking back into history, the Kingdom had over 20 international treaties starting from 1846.
Austria-Hungary in 1875
Belgium in 1862
Denmark in 1846
France in 1857
Germany in 1879
Great Britain in 1851
Italy in 1863
Japan in 1871
Hawaiian-Japanese Executive Agreement Rescinding Consular Jurisdiction in 1893/94
Luxembourg in 1862, William III, King of the Netherlands was also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Netherlands in 1862
Portugal in 1882
Russia in 1869
Samoa in 1887
Spain in 1863
Swiss Confederation in 1864
Sweden and Norway in 1852
United States in 1849, 1875, 1883, 1884
Universal Postal Union in 1885 with Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, the United States of Colombia, the Republic of Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of Honduras, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Persia (Iran), Portugal, Romania, Russia, El Salvador, Serbia, the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand), Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States of Venezuela.
International Criminal Court (November 28, 2012). On December 10, 2012, the insrument of accession was deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations acceding to the Rome Statute accepting jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, over Hawaiian territory. Jurisdiction will commence March 4, 2013.
1949 Geneva Convention, IV (November 28, 2012) On January 14, 2013, the instrument of accession was deposited with the Swiss Federal Council, by its Foreign Ministry, whereby the Hawaiian Kingdom is a High Contracting Party. The Fouth Geneva Convention immediately took effect on January 14, 2013 as a result of the prolonged occupation.
1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 relating to Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol 1) (December 11, 2013) On December 16, 2013, the instrument of accession was deposited with the Swiss Federal Council, by its Foreign Ministry, whereby the Hawaiian Kingdom is a High Contracting Party. Protocol 1 immediately took effect on December 16, 2013 as a result of the prolonged occupation.
https://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/treaties.shtml
This particular link provided is interactive and will take you to each treaty listed above.
It will be very interesting to see how this unfolds within the international court system at The Hague.