Ted Ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bjjwv4134&t=45s
Johnny Harris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK2MBnw6RlY
- 1700s: various missionaries arrived, British were even friends
- 1800s (1820) American missionaries arrived & stayed
- descendants of Am missionaries (technically local) became sugar businessmen transforming land to plantations
- 18th cent: chipped away at govt structure, end of 18th cent: white amassed large % of wealth
- eager to rid of govt to make biz more favorable. formed the “Missionary Party”
- 1874: Missionary Party forced King to sign “Bayonet Constitution”
- stripped native hawaiian rights (to vote)
- diminished
- 1893: "committee of safety" ready for takeover govt (Queen Lili’uokalani)
- armed militia of white ppl
- HI ambassador coord US troops arrival
- --> military coup sponsored by foreign power
- put Sanford DOLE in power
1895: Queen was arrested and imprisoned
- diaries confiscated, home was ransacked
- 1898: Pres McKinney expansionism, US annexed Hawaii
- native language banned in schools
- govt & biz required by law to be in English
- developed land on sacred sites
- history was censored, actual history documented in native lang which was dying
- 1959: Hawaii becomes state
- Dole has become global corp
- 1993: Clinton signs formal letter of apology to people of HI for govt involvement in removing HI independent monarch