THE TRUTH IS OUT - 99% OF ALL HAWAIIANS DID NOT WANT THE U.S. TO ANNEX HAWAI`I
The Maui News - Letter to the Editor
Thurston Twigg-Smith pointed out his March 31 letter that the Native Hawaiian speaker of the House of the Legislature in 1898 requested the U.S. to annex Hawai`i.
How ironic that 99 percent of this speaker's countrymen, almost all of the Native Hawaiians throughout all the islands, signed a petition to U.S. Congress asking that the U.S. not annex Hawai`i.
This petition was rediscovered in the U.S. Archives only within the past 10 years, and today's Hawaiians were proud to find the signatures of their ancestors on this document.
Kathy Corcoran
Lahaina
