Hawaiian Government Exists....the Sovereign and House of Nobles Pulling Together.....By Amelia Gora (about the author) PermalinkSeptember 8, 2011 at 05:53:00 |
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Mike Lee's and our ancestor's fought alongside each other a hundred years ago.............and now our families are together again..........
He has had problems with the Oahu Burial Council over time...............
I too have submitted claims for the Honouliuli lands thru our tutu Akahi (w) who was the last wife of Kalanimoku.
Keopuolani (w) was also married to Kalanimoku (k) after Kamehameha died.
Keopuolani (w) was the mother of Kamehameha II - Liholiho; Kamehameha III - Kauikeouli; Nahienaena (w) and six unnamed others.
Keopuolani (w) also married Hoapili (k) who was married to Kaheiheimalie/Hoapiliwahine (w).
Kaheiheimalie/Hoapiliwahine (w) was married to Kalaimamahu (k) and his brother Kamehameha.
Now, documented as the last wife of Kalanimoku (k) was Akahi (w) my tutu.
Kalanimoku (k) hanai/adopted daughter was Kekauonohi (w) who was a konohiki of Honouliuli.
Kalanimoku (k) heir was Kekauonohi (w) and his brother Hio/Hioloa (k).
Akahi (w) married Kikau (w) my tutu who had son Nahuina (k) who became the brother of Kauikeouli/Kamehameha III; Alexander Liholiho/Kamehameha II; Nahienaena (w); Kekauonohi (w); Kaoleioku (k); et. als.
Akahi (w) married Kahope (k) who was the konohiki of Honouliuli.
Their hanai/adopted son was Kaluakini (k); a son named Halemano (k). These two (2) also became the siblings of Nahuina (k) who became the brother of Kauikeouli/Kamehameha III; Alexander Liholiho/Kamehameha II; Nahienaena (w); Kekauonohi (w); Kaoleioku (k); et. als.
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Our families claims were recently hand carried to the Burial Program at Kapolei.
Funny how someone QUIT the burial council recently which leaves everything hanging because QUORUM is not there...........and there are some issues regarding the genealogist Analu Josephides.............compounded the fact that Mike Lee's issues remain unresolved, along with OUR families as well.........
Now, what of the land that the burials were found?
The lands belonged to Kaopala, brothers: Kahananui (k) and Nika (k) whose mother was Nohunohu (w).
Now, Kahananui was married to OUR ancestor..............these are Ohana, along with Mike Lee!
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HASEKO ARE NOT THE TRUE LAND OWNERS!
If you noticed what I have posted about the genealogies, only then will you realize that WE ARE THE KAMEHAMEHA FAMILIES, the Crown Land Owners, etc.
Mahihelelima (k) my tutu had a younger sister named Kanekapolei (w) my tutu who married Kalaniopuu (k), my tutu, Kamehameha (k) my tutu, married Kuuku (k) my hanai tutu.
Mahihelelima (k) was the kahu of Kamehameha's wives Kaahumanu (w); Kaheiheimalie/ Hoapiliwahine (w); and Namahana/Piia (w) who married Kaumualii (k) my tutus; Kaumualii (k) being the son of Kaeokulani (k) who was the brother of Kahekili (k) another tutu and claimed father of Kamehameha, etc.
Our family has already been verified as descendants of Nuuanu (k) konohiki of Kapalama with Kauikeouli/Kamehameha III.
Another konohiki of Kapalama was John Kapena (k) another tutu.
Together, Mike Lee and OUR FAMILY continue to maintain claims and interests in HONOULIULI..........
How can you help?
By Supporting the Kamehameha's Families...........including King Lunalilo's Families......... King Kalakaua's and Queen Liliuokalani's Families ..........who are mostly the SAME Families documented, which is why there appears to be some problematic issues because the bloodlines EXISTS.............
So.....................OUR FAMILY supports Mike Lee and continues to bring out the genealogies, truth, claims, etc. which includes perpetuity deed/inures to the descendants/heirs, applying HRS172.11, which Abercrombie et. als. are trying to extinguish thru S.B. 1520 and the Akaka Bill.
Remember too that the Hawaiian government is made up of the Sovereign, the PERMANENT members of the House of Nobles, descendants/heirs, and the NON-Permanent ELECTED group made up of subjects/citizens putting the House of Representatives together.........Pirates not welcomed.
aloha.
Amelia Gora
Descendant, Royal person, Royal Families House of Nobles, one of the Representatives of the Hawaiian Genealogical Society, Ko Hawaii Pae Aina/Kingdom of Hawaii/Hawaiian Kingdom/ Hawaiian Islands/Hawaiian archipelago
Ko Hawaii Pae Aina/Kingdom of Hawaii Records No. 2011 - 3010
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Agency inaction puts possible royal Hawaiian burial complex at risk to Haseko development
Above: Ewa Beach's Oneula coastline that fronts Haseko's pending marina. Below: An example of a large pohaku, or stone, that once stood where the marina is now located.Bottom: The niho palaoa found with the royal remains in 2001.EWA--The site of what may be the most significant ancient Hawaiian burial complex discovered in recent times happens to be situated along a roughly mile-long stretch of shoreline where luxury resort developer Haseko plans to open up its marina to the ocean.
On April 14, Ewa resident Michael Lee testified before the Oahu Island Burial Council (OIBC) that the remains of seven alii, or chiefs, are buried in sinkholes along the Ewa coast, specifically in the areas stretching from east of Oneula Beach Park to past the pending marina, which is located just before Barber's Point Naval Air Station.
Of the prominent chiefs mentioned, one was the last independent king of both Maui and Oahu who ruled in the late 1700's before Kamehameha the Great usurped those islands.
In response to Lee's testimony, the OIBC unanimously voted in favor of urging the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) to recognize the entire area as a wahi kapu, or a sacred site, with this particular one serving as both a burial and religious complex.
But since that vote over five months ago, little has been done by the SHPD to pursue further verification and, if warranted, provide protection for the complex. The agency is largely responsible for advocating whether a cultural site should be placed on either or both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
In an email response, SHPD administrator Pua Aiu stated that the division still needs to clarify with Lee the exact location of the alleged sites before any action is taken. She noted that the tax map key Lee used is outdated, so those sites need to be marked on a current map.
Lee said he has called the SHPD, and staff gave him that very same response. But there was no follow-up. "This is something that could have taken less than thirty minutes to do," Lee said.
The underlying reason for the agency's delay, according to Lee, is that it's sympathetic to the developer, who stands to lose time and money by having to work around these burials. "Haseko brings in $45 million in tax revenue for the State," Lee said. "You're not going to bite the hand that feeds you."
Defending the agency, Aiu replied that the SHPD does not take a position on development: Its role is to assess the effects of projects on known historic sites and find ways to avoid, minimize, or mitigate those effects. In any case, she noted that much of the work, including the dredging of the marina, was approved many years before she took the position.
But Lee retorted that the marina's impending breach is currently under the SHPD's purview. And because the agency has not told Haseko to wait until these claims are addressed, he is pressed to take legal action.
"If they [SHPD] do nothing and Haseko begins opening up the marina, or if they deny my claim, I will have to litigate," Lee said. "They're supposed to be protecting our cultural sites, and they're not doing their job."
Meanwhile, Haseko disagrees with Lee's claim, stating it has made "every effort to preserve and protect important cultural sites and archaeological features on its property." The company notes that more than two decades of archaeological fieldwork and cultural research went into the creation of its plans, and none of the kupuna, archaeologists, or the cultural historian who worked with them found any evidence to support the existence of a burial complex.
The Hoakalei Cultural Foundation, the Haseko-funded non-profit that, according to its website, was established in 2006 to "ensure good stewardship of the land and heritage of the Ewa Plain," also disagrees with Lee. Like Haseko, they reaffirm the strength of the research completed for the contested area. Some of their remarks are pointed, stating that the foundation "is frustrated that Mr. Lee demonstrates little respect for the moolelo of our kupuna and ohana, who have been raised and lived for generations in the Puuloa-Honouliuli ahupuaa." The kupuna of note are "Aunties" Arline Eaton and Mary Serrao, women with longstanding roots in the Ewa area who happen to be the president and vice-president of the foundation's board, respectively.
Furthermore, Alicia Maluafiti, the foundation's treasurer, testified at a recent Board of Natural Resources (BLNR) meeting that Lee verified the locations of the bones "through his visions."
In response, Lee said that he provided a mountain of western documentation as evidence to the OIBC in April, including citations from the works of Samuel Kamakau, Abraham Fornander, and King Kalakaua. He also brought marriage certificates, wills, and deeds to support his claim as a lineal descendant from these alii, which the OIBC also voted to approve in executive session.
And Lee vehemently defends his methods as a cultural practitioner.
"It's ironic that Hoakalei claims to be representing Hawaiian culture when they're not aware of what a hihio is, which is a vision or a dream," Lee said before suggesting they should read Mary Kawena Pukui's famed works on Hawaiian cosmology. "They need to go back to Nana I Ke Kumu one, two, and three."
Lee also noted that, during a visit where he and Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) staff marked the exact locations of the sites with a Global Positioning System (GPS), others there that day agreed with his claims. Among them were Darren Panoke, whose great grandmother revealed to him in the 1960's the locations of sacred sites, and a Hawaiian National, whose names escape Lee, who had a map that was etched out during the time of the kingdom.
But above all else, Lee says that an inadvertent discovery made in 2001 challenges his opponents' legitimacy. It was then, after a raging storm, that a "homeless" man found a skull jutting out from a sinkhole in front of the planned marina. The iwi, or bones, were undoubtedly those belonging to a high-ranking chiefess because she was holding a niho palaoa, or royal whalebone hook, in each hand. Previously, Haseko had stated that many sinkholes were tested but no burials were found.
Also, The Hawaii Independent discovered that human remains were found in 1994 on the James Campbell Estate near Kapolei. A piece of heavy machinery fell into a sinkhole, exposing bones and a plank from a traditional canoe.
Ironically, Vicki Gaynor, at one time a vice president for Haseko, used the company's supposed due diligence in checking for burials to refute concerned members of the community--among them the Reverend Kaleo Patterson, who had noted that bones were once found at the Naval Air Station nearby.
In an April 3, 1998 letter to various groups, Gaynor went so far as to state that Patterson's "lack of knowledge" regarding this issue is an example of "how some of the statements made about our project sound logical on the surface, but don't hold up when all the facts are shown."
Patterson's spat with Haseko is indicative of the charged climate of 1998, when the firm was to begin dredging the land for the future 120-acre marina. The reverend, along with other prominent members of the community, challenged a company-hired archaeologist's designation of the majority of recorded sites as temporary habitations.
"He [Rosendahl] really minimized the number of important sites," said photographer and educator Jan Becket. "He claimed there were no ahu [shrines] in existence, even though areas were littered with these large upright stones."
According to Becket, there were over 400 sites, and Haseko preserved a total of six, which are "conveniently located in the corner out of the marina's way."
Sparky Rodrigues, a longtime community activist, said he wasn't surprised by Rosendahl's report. "Sometimes you're paid to be blind," Rodrigues said.
Hinaleimoana Kalu, the vice president of the OIBC, believes that it's not just private business. The State tacitly encourages development over preserving cultural and religious sites, she said. Kalu was not present to vote on the burials in April.
"The timeliness of where they [SHPD] are with this issue is indicative," Kalu said. "It's not a coincidence that the State allots so few staff to juggle all these responsibilities."
One way or another, Lee said he's going to force the SHPD to do its job of verifying his claim and protecting those sites. Haseko and the Hoakalei Foundation have accused him of being uncooperative by not sharing with them the exact locations of the burials. But Lee said he doesn't trust SHPD or Haseko archaeologists with researching his claims at this point--he prefers that OHA fund an independent team to do the work.
To make a point, Lee recalls that at a community stakeholders event in July, he publicly announced the general stretch of coastline that contained the sites. "Not two weeks later," Lee said, "they were drilling and digging around the area. Not two weeks later."
As Lee continues his fight to recognize and protect these alleged sites, he's also filed a contested case with the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) over Haseko's plan to reduce the size of its marina from 70 to 53 acres. He believes that another Environmental Impact Statement [EIS] should be completed to ensure, firstly, that a smaller marina's waters will not become anoxic, or deprived of oxygen, and therefore pose a threat to nearby marine life.
Defending its commitment to water quality in and around the marina, Haseko claims that numerous supplemental studies have been done to consider the effects of a reduction in size. Results show that there would be no adverse effect on water in the area.
Another stipulation of the EIS, according to Lee, would be testing to determine whether or not the company, during its dredging, broke into an underwater channel that flows into the ocean. He says a U.S. Geological Survey map from 1927 to 1930 clearly points out the waterhole, which happens to be in the location of the marina. Lee asserts that this is the real reason why Haseko wants to shrink the marina and transform that particular area into untouchable conservation land--in order to cover up the channel breach.
"They didn't do their homework," Lee said.
Haseko did not respond to the allegation.
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Important Note:
The lands that Haseko claims and builds on has owners...........Rents and Leases are due and owed...........and Haseko needs to sue the Campbell Estates for lands that they sold without clear titles.
The konohiki lands - Kahope (k) and Kekauonohi (w) has families/owners and NOT the conspiring, treasonous persons named the Campbells, the Kawananakoa's, et. als.
The kuleana lands are also lands which "inures" to the benefits of the descendants/heirs.
The Problematic issues are that the entity State of Hawaii is based on premeditation and documented along with the U.S. President, et. als.
Haseko: We have the documentation, Cease and Desist from touching our ancestral burials.
More claims will be submitted shortly.
Ko Hawaii Pae Aina /Kingdom of Hawaii Records No. 2011-3040 from Amelia Gora, a Royal person, Royal Families House of Nobles, One of the Representatives of the Hawaiian Genealogical Society
Learn the Truth, Learn your History, the untainted, unbiased, Hidden History.
aloha.
p.s. we maintain a neutral, friendly, non-violent Nation......Ko Hawaii Pae Aina/Hawaiian Kingdom/Kingdom of Hawaii/Hawaiian Islands/Hawaiian archipelago
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\I have kept this under wraps for a couple of weeks now.....................now, here it is:
Subject: IMPORTANT INFO -----and Queens birthday 9-2-2011 It's importance to our Hawaiian Kingdom sovereignty movement
Hi Cousin,
haven't told you about what's happening ..........The sheriff's department for the Attorney General's office has served some of our family members documents to go to court..... they are looking to expunge liens that we placed on the Crown Lands about two (2) months before the Supreme Court case........the State failed to introduce the information that bloodlines did lien, properly serve the Dept of Land and Natural Resources, Sheriff's department, etc.
they served it to a number of our cousins and couldn't serve it to me because i told them that it was not my name......it was all caps....they found me at the Bureau of Conveyances....they tried to get me to sign a refusal....told them am not refusing, it just was not me..........they tried to get me to write down the court date but i told them i wouldn't be there...he said why?...told him because that's not me............he asked me if i knew where the others lived......told him no.........looked at the documents again and told them that the names may seem to be my cousins but i know for a fact that that's not them..... told him to correct my name and make it properly Capital then small letters......not all Caps because I'm a living human being............he said "your cousins took the docs" said "that's them..............".and i then looked at the docs. and told the sheriffs.........".i know that's not them too"...........it's all in caps and they are living human beings.........
maybe if all the descendants, heirs comes forward, we would be able to counter this important issue.
our family had a project which took two (2) years.........the mahele maps were purchased off the internet for $10,000 - $15,000 and a UH student- was employed in logging all the tmk's on every island.....then it was turned into a lien with about 12 of us who went to bank to notarize our signatures and filed on the same day which occurred BEFORE the Supreme Court case.......
now for a 6 acre claim, by the Mendoza's? the Attorney general is looking to purge this IMPORTANT lien..........*************************
there's more but this is all I'm leaving for now..............
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Remember that I posted an article about what is the Hawaiian government?
There are 3 parts:
1. Sovereign - Kamehameha did start the Monarchy government in 1810...Permanent Part. Kamehameha's descendants existed then and exist now.
2. House of Nobles - Permanent Part. Descendants existed then and exist now.
3. House of Representatives - Elected Part.
Note: It was this group in part who did in a concerted manner commit treason against the Queen.
Queen Liliuokalani did say that they were NOT the Hawaiian government but an entity.
These are the PIRATES OF THE PACIFIC currently headed by Leprechaun/LepreCON Abercrombie with supporting twin CONklin, et. als.
aloha.
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note: we did approach/ask many to help film the issues...................and many have failed to respond. hmmm.......
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The True Hawaiian Government Documented in the Laws of Ko Hawaii Pae Aina/Hawaiian Kingdom/ Kingdom of Hawaii/Hawaiian Islands/Hawaiian archipelago:
In Rex vs. Booth case, the meaning of the Hawaiian Government is documented:
Briefly, the Hawaiian Government is made up of three (3) parts:.......the first two (2) parts are permanent bodies - (1) Sovereign - King/Queen - descendants/heirs; (2) House of Nobles - descendants/heirs; and (3) third part - the voted in positions for the House of Representatives. The entity State of Hawaii is operating on a 1/3 function and therefore is illegal, especially since it has been found that Premeditation to take over Pearl Harbor and assistance to usurp Queen Liliuokalani is on record.
2) See Premeditation article which was found by researcher Shane Lee, a relative of mines, a relative of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, sibling of documented next of kin to Bernice Pauahi Bishop wrongfully, criminally claimed as having been the last of the Kamehameha's.
Reference: HAWAIIAN REPORTS Volume 2 - Rex vs. Joseph Booth, Archives, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; NEW YORK TIMES, January 9, 1893 or 7 days before dethroning Queen Liliuokalani.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7N635np2xgnzIJuCMp3vgg?feat=d...
Background and Additional Reasons for Maintaining the Crown Lands Claims Resulting In Additional Support of the Makekau Family:
a) Documents found by Researcher Keoua Gora and his cousin.
b) Documents of the Annexation Opposition signed by Queen Liliuokalani found by Researcher Kiliwehi Kekumano at the National Archives, Maryland.
c) Queen Emma, widow of Alexander Liholiho/Kamehameha IV, deeded her dower/her interest in the Crown Lands to the "Hawaiian Government" in 1864. Her dower/her interest was for part of the Crown Lands. This deed was found at the Bureau of Conveyances, Honolulu, Oahu.
d) The Hawaiian Government in place consisted of the Sovereign - heirs AND successors; the House of Nobles - heirs and successors; both were PERMANENT Positions; and then the voted in positions called the House of Representatives.
e) Additional Case Affecting the "Hawaiian Government" citing "The Legislative and Judicial are co-ordinate departments of the Government of equal dignity; each is alike supreme in the exercise of its proper functions, and cannot directly or indirectly, while acting within the limits of its authority, be subjected to the control or supervision of the other, without an unwarrantable assumption by that other of the power which, by the Constitution, is not conferred upon it."
Reference: HAWAIIAN REPORTS, Volume 7, The King vs. Young Tang, 1887, Supreme Court Law Library, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
f) Issues of Executive Agreements (Keanu Sai's evidence).
see: http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/sai-obama.shtml
Hawaiian Kingdom - David Keanu Sai v. Hillary Clinton, et al.
g) Issues Raised/Jurisdiction Challenges by Tom Lenchanko:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WTi756_VKmQBBE9WRbKMC_GhDd3snv6...
Discussion:
The 1863 Constitution utilized was the last one approved and recognized. The 1887 Constitution was not ratified/approved and was signed under duress, stress, coercion, and usurpation by King Kalakaua who signed with a gun to his head. His sister later known as Queen Liliuokalani did name the incident "The Bayonet Constitution".
Note: For additional information, see http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Why-the-U-S-Constitution-by-Amelia-Go...
Why the U.S. Constitution of 1849 Remains Unaffected....because of the Perpetual Treaty With the Hawaiian Kingdom
http://theiolani.blogspot.com/2011/10/legalnotice_31.html and theiolani.blogspot.com and http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/GORA8037Issues Exposed/to be Resolved:
http://amelia-gora.blogspot.com/2011/11/important-keep-for-your-rec...
http://amelia-gora.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-defense-of-kanaka-maolih...
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1024/ML102440023.pdf
http://theiolani.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/iolani-the-royal-hawk-vol...
http://amelia-gora.blogspot.com/2011/11/important-keep-for-your-rec...
Genealogies are the basis of the Monarchy in the Hawaiian Islands.
There are many Kamehameha descendants, many have been uncovered due to a tremendous amount of research made over the past 24 years.
Historical issues have been uncovered showing Premeditation, duress issues which negates all claims made by the U.S. et. als. who did support conspirators, treasonous persons documented.
Realistically, no one can proclaim themselves to be King or Queen because there are specific issues that needs to be addressed…………….the descendants of those who attended the Royal School are also part of the picture….. for example the families of all of them………
Is it proper to have former prisoners be allowed to be Kings, Queens?
The point being that the bloodlines who maintain titles to the lands through genealogies must be the ones who are to be looked at seriously.
The bloodlines who connect to the Sovereign, the House of Nobles which are the two permanent branches of the Hawaiian Kingdom must be looked at seriously…………..
otherwise, diversions by power hungry actors are part of the picture and can be seen as no different than the usurpers of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893.
We need to seriously look at the families of the Sovereigns, and House of Nobles.
Meanwhile, the claimants who cannot show their genealogies are part of the voted in, temporary branch under the heading of the the House of Representatives, the third part of the three-part government making up the Hawaiian Kingdom.
It was the House of Representatives branch that turned into the treasonous group making up the Provisional Government, turned Republic of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, and the State of Hawaii supported by the U.S., England, J.P. Morgan bankers, Bank of England.
We are an ancient genealogy based society whose descendants/heirs exists today.
Let’s have all of these “Kings, Queen’s, Regents, etc.” show/prove their genealogies soon.
aloha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm1WOqex8jE
http://www.hawaiiankingdom.info/?p=682
Sarah Vowell on The Daily Show: The ‘Annexation’ of Hawaii
This is absolute must watch. We’ve seen Sarah Vowell on The Daily Show before, and enjoy how she shares history with her dry wit and puts things in ways you can easily relate to. As Jon says, “I laugh, but I learn.”
Well, now she’s written a book on Hawai’i, Unfamiliar Fishes. She describes the “orgy of imperialism” of the summer of 1898. And she nails it. Kekula said when it was over, “that was one of the most comprehensive statements on Hawaii ever presented in such a broad media.” A whole lot of very well-informed, engaged people watch Jon Stewart. And the way she explained it was a truth that many people probably heard for the first time. A lot of people will read her book. She explains the context of the Spanish-American War, the role for Hawaii as “a naval base for our forthcoming invasions,” the missionary family children who “overthrew the Hawaiian queen so as to hand the Hawaiian Islands over to the United States,” mentions the anti-annexation petitions, and compares the joint resolution as “the sort of law New Jersey would use to declare a day Jon Bon Jovi Day.”
(text of the above, Unfamiliar Fishes excerpt)
Unfamiliar Fishes
Unfamiliar Fishes
By Sarah Vowell
(Riverhead Hardcover, Hardcover, 9781594487873, 256pp.)
Publication Date: March 22, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.
Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d’état of the missionaries’ sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode “Aloha ‘Oe” serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.
With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.
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