#queen liliuokalani

[littlefirefly42]

By the way if you are pro-Palestine but not pro-Hawaiian Sovereignty are you really pro-Palestine? Or are you just saying it because it’s trendy?

Know your morals. Understand the situation. Learn what you are fighting for and then keep fighting for it.

[royal-diaries-podcast]

Queen Lydia Lili’uokalani (Kaʻiulani's aunt) 

Kaʻiulani's aunt was the last reigning monarch of Hawaii. Queen Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha ruled from  January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom by a coalition of American businessmen, led by Sanford Dole, on January 17, 1893. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the coup.

[freehawaii]

DID HAWAI`IʻS QUEEN ABDICATE OR NOT?

Some Say Yes & Some Say No.

But What About That Document She Signed?

It All Comes Down To What She Actually Did & Did Not Do.

Confused? Watch This As We Piece It All Together With The Answer.

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[seagull-astrology]

June 1900 Hawaii becomes a territory

Dole, Cleveland and Hawaii On July 6, 1898 the Republic of Hawaii was annexed to the U.S. after Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, the culmination of nearly thirty years effort to bridge the two. The Sugar Fix Hawaii’s importance increased with the aftermath of the Civil War and the concurrent rise in sugar prices. In the United States sugar had always been supplied by the southern…

[prettytm]

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You In Billy's Phone? :: Accepting

[queen-breha-organa]

I want to talk a little bit about Hawai‘i, because I have been thinking a lot about my people, and our lives.

The year 2023 marks 130 years since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

On January 17th 1893, American businessman used their connections and military influence to dethrone Queen Liliuokalani by threat of force.

This annexation still impacts my people 130 years later. It still hurts us, it still haunts us,

For the last 130 years my people have suffered under America’s cruelty and indifference.

Unsustainable Tourism haunts us, causing a cost of living crisis, which turns into a rise in poverty, which turns into a rise in individuals experiencing homelessness. This cost crisis disproportionately effects my people, Kānaka Maoli. We cannot even afford to live on our on land. Our ancestral home.

And in turn, tourism then provides the most jobs. This industry pushes us off our land and into poverty, and then it turns around and sells us back our culture as a walking joke.

Our very identity is turned into entertainment. Our very culture is turned into entertainment.

And many of my people have no choice but to sell their culture so they can eat, so they can survive.

We have been put in a never ending cycle of misery and cultural destruction.

In addition, Military Involvement on our islands causes repeated incidents of ecological violence, and land disputes. The military take claim to land that belongs to my people, and they spill chemicals over and over, and poison the water we drink.

My people are suffering. Our culture is suffering.

And everyday more tourists come. Everyday more land is taken to build hotels. Everyday more culture is stripped and bastardized. Everyday more land is taken for military use.

I’m so tired of living this way. I’m so tired of waking up and watching the slow and agonizing death of my people.

I want us to live. I want us to thrive.

I want my people to survive.

I want to survive.

So please read up on the current issues that face Kānaka Maoli. Please educate yourself on my people’s history and current affairs.

Speak up and speak out. Talk about unsustainable tourism, and speak up about how harmful a “vacation” to Hawai‘i can be. Talk about the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and it’s injustice.

Hawai‘i is Hawaiians. Hawai‘i is our history. Hawai‘i is our home. Hawai‘i is the very blood that runs through our veins.

So please do not forget us, and please speak up with us.

Support Hawaiian Sovereignty. Restore Hawai‘i to Hawaiians.

Resources & Education:

[countess--olenska]

Mary Elizabeth Mikahala Robinson Foster (1844-1930) was the daughter of a shipwrecked sailor, John James Robinson and Rebecca Prever, daughter of Kamakana, a Maui chiefess. She was sister of Mark P. Robinson, who served as Queen Liliuokalani's Minister of Foreign Affairs. She married Thomas R. Foster, the owner of a shipyard, a shipping agency and a number of schooners.

[fatehbaz]

In the late 18th century, [...] Lahaina carried such an abundance of water that early explorers reportedly anointed it “Venice of the Pacific”. A glut of natural wetlands nourished breadfruit trees, extensive taro terraces and fishponds that sustained wildlife and generations of Native Hawaiian families.

But more than a century and a half of plantation agriculture, driven by American and European colonists, have depleted Lahaina’s streams and turned biodiverse food forests into tinderboxes. Today, Hawaii spends $3bn a year importing up to 90% of its food. This altered ecology, experts say, gave rise to the 8 August blaze that decimated the historic west Maui town and killed more than 111 people.

“The rise of plantation capital spawned the drying of the west side of Maui,” said Kamana Beamer, a historian and a former member of the Hawaii commission on water resource management [...].

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[S]ugar and pineapple white magnates began arriving on the islands in the early 1800s. For much of the next two centuries, Maui-based plantation owners like Alexander & Baldwin and Maui Land & Pineapple Company reaped enormous fortunes, uprooting native trees and extracting billions of gallons of water from streams to grow their thirsty crops. (Annual sugar cane production averaged 1m tons until the mid-1980s; a pound of sugar requires 2,000lb of freshwater to produce.)

Invasive plants that were introduced as livestock forage, like guinea grass, now cover a quarter of Hawaii’s surface area. The extensive use of pesticides on Maui’s pineapple fields poisoned nearby water wells. The dawn of large-scale agriculture dramatically changed land practices in Maui, where natural resources no longer served as a mode of food production or a habitat for birds but a means of generating fast cash, said Lucienne de Naie, an east Maui historian [...].

“The land was turned from this fertile plain – with these big healthy trees, wetland taros and dryland crops like banana and breadfruit – to a mass of monoculture: to rows and rows of sugar cane, and rows and rows of pineapple,” she said.

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The Great Māhele of 1848, a ground-breaking law that legitimized private land ownership, laid the ground for big developers to hoard water for profit, said Jonathan Likeke Scheuer, a water policy consultant and co-author of the book Water and Power in West Maui. [...] [T]he creation of private property allowed agricultural corporations to wield “political and ultimately oligarchic power” over elected officials. In 1893, a group of sugar magnates and capitalists overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Queen Liliuokalani, paving the way for the US to annex Hawaii five years later. Sanford Ballard Dole, a cousin of Dole Plantation’s founder, served as the first governor of Hawaii.

When the last of the sugar companies closed in 2016 [...], Scheuer said, the farms were purchased by large investors for real estate speculation and left fallow, overrun with invasive grasses that became fuel for brush fires. Developers [...] took control of the plantations’ century-old irrigation ditches and diverted water to service its luxury subdivisions. In doing so, it left scraps for Indigenous families who lived downstream. [...] [O]n Maui, 16 of the top 20 water users are resorts, time-shares and short-term condominium rentals equipped with emerald golf courses and glittering pools [...].

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Text by: Claire Wang. "How 19th-century pineapple plantations turned Maui into a tinderbox". The Guardian. 27 August 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[inky-duchess]

What are some basic things to know about the Hawaiian government, back when it was still ran by Queens and such?

I assume it’s different than say, European royalty, but I’m struggling on how to find information for the government structures and what important roles are in the government

There's a great biography Queen Liliuokalani: The Hawaiian Kingdom's Last Monarch by Kale Makana which might be super helpful to you.

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, September 2nd:

Marie Josephine of Savoy, Comtesse de Provence, 1753

Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1778

Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838

Louise of Austria, Crown Princess of Saxony, 1870

Elisabeth Marie, Austrian Archduchess, 1883

Miriam, Crown Princess of Bulgaria, 1963

[freehawaii]

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

[cavernfullofexistentialdread]

"filipino from hawaii" as in you're also part native hawaiian or just live there? otherwise you are also taking part in colonization be putting on natives land

I live here. I’m all Filipino. I was born here, many Pinoy people (including my own family who’s lived here for five generations) came here because of opportunities and for a new life. My great-great-grandfather worked on the sugar plantations and sent money back home. He eventually got the chance to move the rest of my family here to Hawaii.

Wanting to provide for their families, many immigrants of all backgrounds moved to Hawaii specifically because of said plantations and maybe even the fact it was already so diverse. I never asked to be born here and my people never “colonized” Hawaii. That was the missionaries of white/european descent who over threw the true rulers of Hawaii. (Rip Queen Liliuokalani, she’s a fucking legend and all should put some fucking RESPECT on her name!!! Shoutout to King David Kalakaua too for staying authentic to his people) I have a deep love for the culture I grew up in and my own. I understand that if you are from some place else you would come to this conclusion. We are in a way taking up space that wasn’t originally our’s. I would NEVER consider myself native Hawaiian. That would be an insult to the land that the natives once lived on in peace. However I am local, and I can never deny that.

“Just living here” counting as colonization would disgrace HUNDREDS upon THOUSANDS of families who had to move for their own reasons. Establishing control? When we have so little of our own? I don’t want to see my ancestors as colonizers. Yes this land truely belongs to the native people of Hawai’i. No I am not one of those peoples. But I am not a colonizer. The Philippines has also been colonized and was even own by United States as well, bit ironic that my family ended up in Hawaii. Can’t escape fucking America I guess lol. I’d never wish colonization nor occupation on another culture. It’s fucking terrible.

I hope you have an amazing day anon <3333

[seagull-astrology]

June 1900 Hawaii becomes a territory

Dole, Cleveland and Hawaii On July 6, 1898 the Republic of Hawaii was annexed to the U.S. after Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, the culmination of nearly thirty years effort to bridge the two. The Sugar Fix Hawaii’s importance increased with the aftermath of the Civil War and the concurrent rise in sugar prices. In the United States sugar had always been supplied by the southern…

[shu-of-the-wind]

I will be adding this to the sotb page eventually when it's ready for proper viewing again (it's kind of in uhhhh construction mode) but here are the books that I've shortlisted in my research for Swallows on the Beam.

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST. I will continue adding to this list as I find titles I know I've read before. These are just the books that I personally own. And as a side note I am only including George Kerr's Okinawa because it's one of the only histories of Okinawa in English, it's NOT good and the guy wrote it in 1958 so his perspective on Okinawans, Chinese, and Japanese people is EXTREMELY skewed by the Second World War being so recent in his memory.

(ID: Eight photos of books. The first photo is a stack of six books on a table. From bottom to top, the books are The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford, Cults Inside Out by Rick Alan Ross, Okinawa: The History of an Island People by George Kerr, Our Land Was a Forest by Kayano Shigeru, and The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk. The other seven photos are photographs of covers of books on a Kindle screen. Those books are in order: Hokkaido: A History of Japan's Northern Isle and Its People by Ibrahim Jalal, China from Empire to Nation-State by Wang Hui, trans. by Michael Gibbs Hill, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani, Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt, and The Romance of Three Kingdoms translated by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor.)

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On the day celebrating the American colonies’ separation from Great Britain, Hawaii is relatively quiet in contrast to the continental United States, where fireworks light up neighborhoods across the country. In Hawaii, July 4 is not a joyous occasion for some residents. This is because July 4 is also the day a group of businessmen self-declared the Islands to be the Republic of Hawaii in 1894, before imprisoning Queen Liliuokalani. Later, July 4, 1960, was chosen as the day the 50th star was added to the U.S. flag. [...] Since the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, Hawaiian entities, like the Nation of Hawaii, continue to fight to restore control of Hawaii. Hawaiians do not all agree on the current status of the nation, the process of how it should be restored or whether it should be at all. [...] In 1993, Congress admitted its wrongdoing in the Apology Resolution. Signed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, the 100th anniversary of the overthrow, it proclaimed that the Hawaiian government never relinquished its sovereignty and the Hawaiian Kingdom was illegally overthrown. [...] When President William McKinley proposed a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii in 1897, more than half of the Native Hawaiians living in the Islands opposed it. They signed petitions that were delivered to the U.S. Congress. The treaty failed to get the two-thirds support it needed in the Senate, and so it was defeated. In its place, the Newlands Resolution, a joint resolution by the U.S. Congress to annex Hawaii, was passed and signed into law on July 7, 1898. Dole became the governor of the Territory of Hawaii. “The problem is that it’s not a treaty; that’s an American law,” [Keanu Sai, a University of Hawaii faculty member and political scientist who specializes in Hawaiian constitutionalism and international relations] said. “The United States could no more annex a foreign country by passing a law than it could pass the law today for the Congress to annex Canada. It has no effect beyond the borders of the United States.” The United States is in violation of international law, Sai said. When a country that is recognized as an independent state has its government overthrown through an act of war, it does not mean the country no longer exists. Sai says the U.S. obliterated the national consciousness of the Hawaiian people. “There’s a false narrative that was started here in the Islands in 1906 through what is called denationalization through Americanization, where my grandparents’ generation were forced to believe that they’re American and they need to speak English and all they learned was American history,” Sai said. “When I was born and went to school, the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom was wiped clean,” Sai said. “We didn’t know anything at all.” The repetition of what was taught in schools has allowed the lie to become the truth, he said. [...] “Prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in 1778, the Native Hawaiian people lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social system based on communal land tenure with a sophisticated language, culture, and religion,” [John Garcia, minister of foreign affairs and second vice president for the independently formed government Nation of Hawaii] said. “The Hawaiian Kingdom is legally a sovereign independent state like any other country. The U.S. has never annexed Hawaii and is illegally occupying Hawaii for over 129 years.”

-- From "While US celebrates its independence, Hawaiians still wait for theirs" by Christine Hitt for SFGate, 4 Jul 2023.