KE AUPUNI UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2024
Identity Theft
The recent American elections raised several issues that pertain to us who maintain our homelands, the Hawaiian Islands, is being illegally occupied by the United States. The election exposed Americans are deeply concerned about illegal immigrants overwhelming the local population and losing control of their communities and resources to foreigners…
They are right to be concerned, because that is what happened to Hawaii, along with another insidious tactic that undermined our standing as a Hawaiian nation.
You hear these days many ads about protecting yourself from criminals who steal your identity and use your identity to take everything you have, even your home, leaving you destitute and powerless to fight back. Isn’t that the definition of colonialism? Isn’t that what happened to us in Hawaii but more sinister and pervasive?
It didn’t happen overnight. It took a couple of generations, the first half of the 20th Century. During that time any vestige of our identity as loyal subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom was wiped out and Hawaiians were morphed into loyal citizens of the United States, willing to sign on to the scam of statehood and buying into pursuing “the American Dream.” Having the victim agree to his own captivity.
But with the rediscovery in the 60s and 70s of the richness of hula kahiko, our moʻolelo (stories), and the exploits of our ancestors who crisscrossed this vast ocean in voyaging canoes made of wood and leaves, and doing it a thousand years before the lead-colonizer, Columbus, was even born; our true identity as the heirs and descendants of a great people began to emerge. And the questions began to be asked: What really happened? Who are we really? How did we lose control of our nation?
Haunani Kay Trask startled us with her shocking declaration: “We are not Americans! We are not Americans! We are not Americans! We are not Americans! We are Hawaiians! And we will always be Hawaiians!” It was the wake-up call to confront who we really are. What is our true identity? American or Hawaiian?
Since that day, we have been learning, reclaiming and embracing that identity for ourselves, and in the process, reclaiming and embracing our Lāhui, our nation, our kuleana (responsibility) and our calling as a people.
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
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Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
