KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2024
The Return of Our Nation...
One hundred and thirty-one years ago, on January 17, 1893, hiding behind 162 heavily armed U.S. troops, and the cannons of a U.S. warship in Honolulu Harbor, the peaceful, innocent Hawaiian Kingdom was ruthlessly pirated by a gang of greedy white businessmen proclaiming themselves to be the new heads of the government for the Hawaiian Kingdom...
THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM
By the mid-Nineteenth Century, the Hawaiian Kingdom was a progressive, literate, flourishing, peaceful, independent, Christian nation, conducting lively trade and discourse among the nations of the world.
In the 1840s Hawaiʻi’s enlightened leaders transformed Hawaii into a highly literate nation and instituted a constitutional form of government. In 1843 the Hawaiian Kingdom became the first non-Eurocentric nation to be formally recognized by the great colonial powers of Europe as a fellow sovereign, independent nation state.
By the 1890s the Hawaiian Kingdom had numerous treaties with foreign nations and more than 130 diplomatic posts around the world. Hawaiian monarchs had traveled the globe, establishing formal relationships with crowns and heads of states in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. The Hawaiian Kingdom initiated a confederation of Pacific Island nations.
ILLEGAL INTERVENTION
In January 1893, without provocation and without warning, a company of fully armed United States Marines suddenly landed in Honolulu to support a coup dʻetat by a cabal of white businessmen to unseat Queen Liliʻuokalani and seize control of the Hawaiian Kingdom government. To avoid escalation into a bloody war, the Queen made a conditional yield — not to the insurgents, but to the United States — diplomatically protesting the United States’ military intervention as an illegal act of aggression (an international wrongful act) and placing the responsibility to repair the illegal act squarely upon the shoulders of the President of the United States.
Months later, after conducting an official investigation, U.S. President Grover Cleveland admitted the U.S. committed a wrongful act of aggression and informed the U.S. Congress that the United Statesʻ armed intervention amounted to an illegal “act of war” against a friendly, sovereign nation. Cleveland indicated the U.S. had a moral and legal international obligation to repair the wrong by restoring Queen Liliʻuokalani and the lawful government of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
President Cleveland and Queen Lili’uokalani agreed to terms to settle the matter, but the U.S. Congress failed to implement the settlement. It remains unfinished business to this day.
WRONGFUL TAKING
Instead of honoring that 1893 agreement, the United States, in 1898, did the exact opposite. Under then-President William McKinley, and under cover of the infamous Spanish-American War, the U.S. concocted and staged a quasi “annexation” and took possession of the Hawaiian Islands calling it the “U.S. Territory of Hawaii”. In 1959, that fake “Territory of Hawaii” was converted into the fake “State of Hawaii”.
Today, 131 years and 24 U.S. presidents later, there have been decades of dedicated, sacrificial efforts by countless Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiʻi patriots) to bring about a graceful and peaceful end to the belligerent occupation of our homeland. Thankfully, the return of the Hawaiian Kingdom is now in sight.
As we take the time on January 17, to attend the Peace March from the Royal Mausoleum at Maunaʻala and the ʻOnipaʻa Rally at ʻIolani Palce, to reflect on the events of the past and advancing our Lāhui into the future, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives!
“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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For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at
6 PM the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53.
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Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
