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The Overthrow of Hawaiian Monarchy

Hawaii can not stand on their own...

No "Native's Rights"

Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 1920

  • 200,000 acres of land
  • 6,000 Native Hawaiians
  • 22,000 remain on waiting list
  • 30,000 died

To inform my peers about the impact of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy, so then they could reflect how one's selfishness can impact the whole community. Because I believe that my classmates can be tomorrow's leaders.

Greed for Land

  • 800,000 down to 40,000 Polynesians
  • free land: 1.8 Million acre of ceded lands
  • “Envision La'ie”

Lost Culture

  • 60% of the animal and plant species in Hawaii are considered endangered
  • diverse language
  • almost gone: Hawaiian Sign Language

Overthrow of The Hawaiian Monarchy

January 17, 1893

  • Unsatisfied businessmen and Plantation workers

Queen Lili`uokalani

Bayonet Constitution

  • 1887
  • king: less power
  • cabinet: more power
  • new: non-citizens & whites
  • restricting access for native Hawaiians on land owning.
  • First Queen: January 1891
  • new constitution on January 14, 1893
  • postponed
  • Annexation club
  • forced to abdicate

by: Mariel Navarro

Hawaiian League

  • 1887
  • goal: demand and reform government
  • less power of King Kalakaua
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