Ted Ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bjjwv4134&t=45s

Johnny Harris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK2MBnw6RlY

• 1700s: various missionaries arrived, British were even friends
• 1800s (1820) American missionaries arrived & stayed
  • descendants of Am missionaries (technically local) became sugar businessmen transforming land to plantations
• 18th cent: chipped away at govt structure, end of 18th cent: white amassed large % of wealth
  • eager to rid of govt to make biz more favorable. formed the “Missionary Party”
• 1874: Missionary Party forced King to sign “Bayonet Constitution”
  • stripped native hawaiian rights (to vote)
  • diminished
• 1893: "committee of safety" ready for takeover govt (Queen Lili’uokalani)
  • armed militia of white ppl
  • HI ambassador coord US troops arrival
  • --> military coup sponsored by foreign power
  • put Sanford DOLE in power

1895: Queen was arrested and imprisoned

• diaries confiscated, home was ransacked

• 1898: Pres McKinney expansionism, US annexed Hawaii
  • native language banned in schools
  • govt & biz required by law to be in English
  • developed land on sacred sites
  • history was censored, actual history documented in native lang which was dying
• 1959: Hawaii becomes state
• Dole has become global corp
• 1993: Clinton signs formal letter of apology to people of HI for govt involvement in removing HI independent monarch