A Once Buried History is Now Common Knowledge
"Strangling Hands Upon a Nation's Throat," Miriam Michelson, San Francisco Call, 1897. About the ardent resistence of Kingdom citizens through the Ku`e petitions protesting U.S. takeover of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. These petitions prevented an annexation treaty, so the U.S. used a congressional domestic joint resolution (which is illegal) to take Hawai'i.
Ka Lei Maile Ali`i Hawaiian Civic Club produces Ka Le Maile Ali`i - The Queen's Women, a play which re-enacts the organization and signing of the Ku`e petitions, written by Didi Lee Kwai and inspired in part by the article by Miriam Michelson.
We Are Who We Were, a 15-minute documentary by Na Maka o ka `Aina, on the U.S. fake "annexation." See also the documentaries, Act of War - The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and The Tribunal.
Noho Hewa - The Unlawful Occupation of Hawai'i, a documentary by Anne Keala Kelly which exposes the effects of colonialism, occupation, and militarization on Hawaiian people and places.
Interview with Keanu Sai, Ph.D., with Lynette Cruz, Ph.D., regarding the history of Hawaiian occupation and the impact of the recent Department of Interior meetings in Hawai'i. "The kingdom is presumed to exist."
"...the alleged misrepresentations that the United States made to the international community:
That the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands was lawfully ceded to the United States by a treaty of cession in 1898;
That the international treaties between the Hawaiian Kingdom and other sovereign States were superseded by the United States' treaties with those States;
That United States laws and not Hawaiian Kingdom laws governed the Hawaiian Islands to include taxation, tariffs and duties; and
That the Hawaiian Islands is the territory of the United States through the State of Hawai`i and not the Hawaiian Kingdom, being a sovereign State, which has been under prolonged occupation since the Spanish-American War.
Dr. Sai's complaint alleges Clinton, Gates, and Willard with violating the Lili`uokalani assignment, the 1907 Hague Convention, IV, the 1949 Geneva Convention, IV..."
From David Keanu Sai v. Barack Obama, et al. (Source: HawaiianKingdom.org & Keanu Sai, Ph.D.)
Kaulana Na Pua - A Song of Protest
Kaulana nā pua aʻo Hawaiʻi
Kūpaʻa mahope o ka ʻāina
Hiki mai ka ʻelele o ka loko ʻino
Palapala ʻānunu me ka pākaha
Famous are the children of Hawaiʻi
Ever loyal to the land
When the evil-hearted messenger comes
With his greedy document of extortion
Pane mai Hawaiʻi moku o Keawe
Kōkua nā Hono aʻo Piʻilani
Kākoʻo mai Kauaʻi o Mano
Paʻapū me ke one Kākuhihewa
Hawaiʻi, land of Keawe answers
The bays of Piʻilani help
Kauaʻi of Mano lends support
All are united by the sands of Kākuhihewa
ʻAʻole aʻe kau i ka pūlima
Maluna o ka pepa o ka ʻenemi
Hoʻohui ʻāina kūʻai hewa
I ka pono sivila aʻo ke kanaka
Do not fix a signature
To the paper of the enemy
With its sin of annexation
And sale of the civil rights of the people
ʻAʻole mākou aʻe minamina
I ka puʻukālā a ke aupuni
Ua lawa mākou i ka pōhaku
I ka ʻai kamahaʻo o ka ʻāina
We do not value
The government's hills of money
We are satisfied with the rocks
The wondrous food of the land
Mahope mākou o Liliʻulani
A loaʻa e ka pono o ka ʻāina
[alternate stanza: A kau hou ʻia e ke kalaunu]
Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana
Ka poʻe i aloha i ka ʻāina
We support Liliʻuokalani
Who has won the rights of the land
[alternate stanza:
She will be crowned again]
The story is told
Of the people who love the land
The Wikipedia entry says: "Kaulana Nā Pua (literally, "Famous are the flowers") is a Hawaiian patriotic song written by Eleanor Kekoaohiwaikalani Wright Prendergast (April 12, 1865 – December 5, 1902) in 1893 for members of the Royal Hawaiian Band who protested the violent overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom."
The video above is a Project Kuleana production featuring Hawaiian musicians from every island.