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.
People are amazed when I tell them the story of how Hawaii became a state. In fact I think it’s the first actual neoliberal country when they dissolved the kingdom for Dole. Also the fact that the Hawaiian people were considered “aboriginal” not “native” so that they would not be classified as “American Indian” when they were fully absorbed. Living in Hawaii actually changed my life and made me into the Marxist that I am these days.
What are the consequences of this?
Mainly that they don't have any tribal autonomy like American Indians on the reservations. No treaties have to be abided by, the federal government owes them nothing, they can't set laws on their own lands, etc.
And all of that was pretty much engineered too. After the Dawes Act passed, if they were considered “native” then every family would be owed 150 acres of land. So they decided to literally set up a banana republic. Just colonizers being colonizers.
Yeah Hawaii is one of the most naked examples of the evil of the United States. If somebody can look at what happened there and say, "yeah the US are good guys" then I don't even know. :gulag:
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.