The Hawaiian sovereignty movement (Hawaiian: ke ea Hawaiʻi), is a grassroots political and cultural campaign to re-establish an autonomous or independent nation or kingdom of Hawaii due to desire for sovereignty, self-determination, and self-governance.
Some groups also advocate for some form of redress from the United States for the 1893 overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani, and for what is described as a prolonged military occupation beginning with the 1898 annexation. The movement generally views both the overthrow and annexation as illegal.
Sovereignty advocates have attributed problems plaguing native communities including homelessness, poverty, economic marginalization, and the erosion of native traditions to the lack of native governance and political self-determination.
They have pursued their agenda through educational initiatives and legislative actions. Along with protests throughout the islands, at the capital (Honolulu) itself as well as the places and locations held as sacred to Hawaiian culture, sovereignty activists have challenged United States forces and law.
The ancestors of Native Hawaiians may have arrived in the Hawaiian Islands around 350 CE, from other areas of Polynesia. By the time Captain Cook arrived, Hawaii had a well-established culture with a population estimated to be between 400,000 and 900,000 people. In the first one hundred years of contact with Western civilization, due to disease and war, the Hawaiian population dropped by ninety percent, to only 53,900 people in 1876. American missionaries would arrive in 1820 and assume great power and influence.
I mean every wrong thing with Hawaii these days. Natives were excluded to protections, representation and rights given to Native Americans. So like there's literally no "Native Hawaiian Reserve." Meaning that every bad thing capitalism has to offer is being imposed on these people. So high rent, inflation and homelessness are huge in the state because there is literally no where to go if you loose your house besides living out in a beach parking lot. So like imagine what we did to Native Americans and multiplied it by four because there was no where to go.
Jesus Christ. “The rules we put in place on ourselves to stop ourselves from oppressing natives like we keep doing are too restrictive let’s not follow them”
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The thing is that I am simplifying this a bit but its not way off. A literal genocide happened as United Fruit was bringing in indentured Asians to do the hard manual labor and to "breed the Hawaiian" out of the native peoples of the islands. That's why you see those Native American schools in Hawaii too. Along with a huge Asian influence. So they would send them to these boarding schools and make them work hard labor. Like there's a lot of history that I'm not even scratching the surface at how shitty of deal Hawaiians got.