intellectual colonialism of Indigenous people and their lands. * Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1513) American Expansion * Hawaii provided America raw materials to fuel production‚ and land for a growing population. Captain Cook * Came Hawaii in search of Northwest passage * Arrived 1778 and named Hawaii Sandwich Isles * Died February 14‚ 1779 in Kealakekua bay Hawaii The Hawaiian Kingdom Kamehameha Domain * Kamehameha I (KI) is from Hawai’i and is the first King of Hawai’i. *
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Stannard‚ D. (1990). Disease and Infertility: A New Look at the Demographic Collapse of Native Populations in the Wake of Western Contact. Journal of American Studies 24. Trask‚ H.K. (1993). From A Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press The United Nations. (2007) United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Retrieved October 11‚ 2009 from http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html U.S. Census Bureau. ( 2001). Native
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Hawaiian Sovereignty Something That Can Be Afforded? "If all of this seems long ago and far away‚ it is worth remembering that the past is never past." (Faulkner cited in Ellison‚ P.274) Many different groups today are seeking the sovereignty of Hawaii. The reason being that these mostly Native Hawaiian groups feel that they suffered a severe injustice when they were annexed into the United States against their own free will. They feel that since they were treated like objects rather than human
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event called the “Mahele” changed the traditional Hawaiian system of land tenure from communal use to private ownership (Kameeleihiwa 3). Events in the past of Hawaii‚ like the Mahele of 1848‚ left a devastating mark in Hawaii’s history; It helped eventually lead to the overthrow of the monarch and still affects today’s problems in Hawaii. To understand the native Hawaiian’s perspective of the Mahele‚ one must first learn the Hawaiian mentality. In Hawaiian culture it is believed that Wakea (sky-father)
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“Beyond Myth and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas” is written by five university professors. There are twenty essays found within this book. These essays entitled “Myth & Legend’ are located at the end of each chapter. Storytelling is common to every culture. What are the myths and legends? Myths and legends are stories that have been told in the previous hundreds of years‚ and have been exceptionally popular on the planet for quite a while. There are debates of the stories that are told myths
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Bibliography: BROWN‚ GODFREY . "Hawaii-United States Treaty -1875." HAWAII - INDEPENDENT & SOVEREIGN. Minister of Foreign Affairs. ‚ 8 Dec. 1887. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. . Entertainment Magazine. "Princess Kaiulani." The Entertainment Magazine. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. < http://emol.org/film/archives/princesskaiulani/production
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resources they needed. In the process they tried to impose their culture on the natives. The natives lives were destroyed because the western people invaded their land. One example of the natives lives being changed in a negative way would be the U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. Another is Belgian rubber companies enslaving the Congolese to collect sap from the native rubber trees. From the first time the white man stepped foot on Hawaiian land‚ they saw the great value of the island as
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section is America in the World. The annexation of the Philippines produced a far more controversial debate than the annexation of Puerto Rico‚ due to the fact that the Philippines was much farther from the U.S. than Puerto Rico‚ and seemed much more ominous to Americans. To take control of this territory seemed too aggressive‚ beyond the limits of what was acceptable for the U.S.‚ for many Americans. President McKinley believed there were no alternatives to annexation‚ as he viewed Filipinos incapable
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Texas took many steps toward independence and annexation. This all began with the idea of Manifest Destiny‚ which was the thought that God wanted white men to take land for their own pleasing. This idea was spread by Mountain Men‚ who in search for beaver and other furs for trade‚ probed the Rockies to explore more of the western part of the country. The most famous Mountain Man‚ Jedediah Smith‚ crossed the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada to reach the California trail‚ which linked the U.S. to
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nation with foreign powers. In 1841‚ the newspaper Polynesian‚ printed in Honolulu‚ advocated that the U.S. establish a naval base in Hawaii for protection of American citizens engaged in the whaling industry. The British Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Crichton Wyllie‚ remarked in 1840 that "...my opinion is that the tide of events rushes on to annexation to the United States." With the conclusion of the Civil War‚ the purchase of Alaska‚ the increased importance of the Pacific states
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