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...In 1961 the first edition of the English translation of Samuel Kamakau's Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii was published by Kamehameha Schools Press. Many contributed to make its publication possible. A group of Hawaiian scholars was first selected by the trustees of Bishop Museum to translate Kamakau's florid literary styl...

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...Many famous chiefs, mentioned in Hawaiian history, were descended from Hana-laa-nui. The ruling chiefs (noho alii) of Hawaii were of that particular lineage (mookuauhau), and with additions from those of the other islands, the genealogy of Hawaii's chiefs an...

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...tory of Umi. 1 -- The Story of Kiha-a-Pii-lani. 22 -- The Story of Keawe-nui-a-Umi. 34 -- The Story of Lono-i-ka-makahiki. 47 -- Keawe's Reign. 64 -- Hawaii Under Alapai-nui. 66 -- Hawaii Under Ka-lani-opuu. 78 -- Captain Cook's Visit to Hawaii. 92 -- Events of Ka-lani-opuu's Time. 105 -- Kamehameha Wins Half Hawaii. 117 -- Ka-hahana Loses Oahu. 128 -- Kamehameha Wins All ...

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...Writing in the nineteenth century, Hawaiian historian Kepelino said, "However diligently the foreigner seeks, he cannot find all. He gets a fragment here and there and goes home." That is very true. I have read what is available, but changes came so rapidly af...

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...Hawaiian words used in the text, other than proper names, are identified through the use of italic type. These words are usually defined in the sentence in which they are first used or in the Glossary at the back of the book ...

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...-- Maile Becomes a Kahuna. 268 -- Fishponds and Torches. 273 -- Year's End. 277 -- Hukilau. 277 -- Surfing. 279 -- Other Pastimes. 282 -- Glossary of Hawaiian Names and Words. 287 --...

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...The first edition of The Ahupuaa, published in 1979, was planned and developed by the Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian Studies Institute. It was the first publication undertaken by the institute, which was created in 1978 to consolidate the efforts of Hawaiian studies specialists from several Kamehameha programs. Kamehameha staff me...

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...In the time of umi, son of the great chief Liloa, the Hawaiian islands were divided into political regions. The four mokupuni (larger islands) of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii were divided into moku (districts). The smaller islands of Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe became moku of ...

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...Ua hoopuka ka mea nana i pai keia buke me ka olioli nui, ka makamua o ka hoao ana e hoolako i buke hoona-nea na na kanaka Hawaii. Ua loaa mua mai ia kakou na buke kula o na ano he nui wale, a he nui no hoi na buke i hoolakoia mai na kakou, e hoike mai ana ia kakou i ka pono a me ka hewa; aka, o ka buke mua nae keia i paiia na ka poe Hawaii nei,...

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...Mai ka nupepa Hawaii mua loa o Ka Lama Hawaii o ka makahiki 1834, o keia kaao a S. N. Haleole i kakau iho ai ka moolelo mua loa i hoopaa ia ma ke ano he puke heluhelu he 220 mau aoao kona loihi i ka makahiki 1863. O ia kekahi o na moole...

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...Uo-ia i ka Puuwai a na- Hoakaka,—Ua loaa mai keia mele ia makou, mai na koa Hawaii ponoi mai o ka mahele Leahi, oiai lakou ma ke alahele nake iloko o ka ululaau ooi o ka lanatana no na awawa o Palolo me Manoa, a ma ke awawa o ka inoa hope, i hoao ai lakou e kupaa i ka iho makawalu mat o ka poka a hik...

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... hooponoponoia kekahi mau hemahema o ua buke nei. O kekahi mau mea hoi, ua hookomo hou ia, no ka moolelo a Rev. S. W. Papaula i imi ai ma Kealakekua, Hawaii. He mea nui no kakou o Hawaii nei keia moolelo o Heneri Opukahaia; no ka mea, o ka makamua ia o na hana kupaianaha a ke Akua i hana lokomaikai mai ai i ko kakou Lahui nei; a no loko mai o ia hoomaka ana i mahuahua mai...

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...He ahahui auhau ole ka Aha Punana Leo i hookumu ia i ka makahiki 1983 no ka hoola ana i ka olelo Hawaii a me ka hookumu ana i na kula e ao ia i loko wale no o ia olelo. I ia makahiki aku, ua ku ke kula Punana Leo mua loa, ke kula hooluu olelo oiwi mua loa hoi o Amelika Hui Pu la. Ma hope o ka hoololi ia ana e ka ohana Pu...

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...ekahi kanaka. O ia hoi, ina ua hanai ia kahi keiki me na moolelo no ke kupueu o Maui a me ka moolelo no ke keiki aihue kaulana o Iwa, a me na moolelo Hawaii e ae, e noonoo ana o ia e like me ka Hawaii, penei: Mai ka moolelo no Maui, e ao ana o ia i ke ano kolohe a kupueu hoi i ae ia e kona lahui. E hoopili paha o ia i kana hana me ka hana a ia mee kaulana. Mai ka moolelo o...

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... Pelekane, aka, ma mua o ka noho ana o ka Pakeha (ka Haole hoi) i laila, ua noho ia ia aina e ka poe Maori, he poe Polenesia. Ua pili no ka Hawaii me ka Maori. He pili no ma na mea hou e like me ke ku ana o ka poe oiwi no ka hoihoi ana i ka mana aupuni ia lakou i ola no na moomeheu o ka lahui. A he pili no ma na mea kahiko mai ka wa ma mua mai. O ka pili o na ole...

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...No Polenesia: He Mahele o ka Pakipika. 1 -- No Aotearoa. 3 -- O Hatupatu laua o Kurangaituku. 5 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 12 -- No Hawaii. 15 -- Pohakuloa. 16 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 21 -- No Nukuhiva. 23 -- Ka Moi Wahine Putu a me na Palaoa o Nukuhiva. 25 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo . 31 -- No Rapanui. 33 -- Kotetukoteurararapenui a me ka Luahine. 35 ...

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...e Bisimaka hoi ko Kelemania, He Alekanadero ko Lukia, He Galibaladi ko Ikalia, He Kolomoboso ko Sepania, He Wasinetona ko Amelika, A he Nawahi hoi ko Hawaii.1 He nui wale aku no na loea o ia mau lahui a me na lahui e ae a me ka lahui Hawaii pu i hiki ke helu papa ia, aka, i aha ai hoi ka helu papa ana, oiai ua lawa ko Nawahi kulana a me kana mau hana no kona helu ia ma ke...

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...a a na Luna Hoopuka. xv -- Alana ia no Iosepa Kahooluhi Nawahi. xvii -- Kahooluhi. xvii -- Nawahi. xviii -- Ke Kaniuhu a na Mokupuni. xix -- Ka U a Hawaii o Keawe. xix -- Ka Leo Kaukau a na Moku o Kama. xxi -- Ka Naauaua a Kakuhihewa. xxii -- Ke Kumakena a ka Moku o Mano. xxiii -- Kona Hanau ana. 1 -- Kona Noho Kumu Kula ana. 11 -- Kona Noho Kumu Nui ana. 26 -- Kekah...

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... When in the , distant yesterday of hawaii?s history, the great navigator and monarch of the hawaiian race, the prince kulani - kuil - hawaiiloa, first brought his people over the wide desert of the sea of kanaloa (the pacific ocean) from the continent of kahik...

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...The Prince Paumakua was the last of the Hawaiin monchs, until the advent of kamehameha the Great, to held sovereignty over all of the Hawaiin islands. paumakua was the 49th lineal descendant of the great Navigator-king Hawaiiloa; he was 108th generation descendant ...

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...y death of the sacred Prince William Charlcs Lunalilo, last island monarch of the Kamehameha Dynasty, about 80 years ago, there have arisen among the Hawaiians a great number of controversies involving the royal and noble genealogies, and pedigrees. In other instances, stories have been created of the most fantastic nature to distort utterly the true personalities of the ...

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...Throughout the entire history of Hawaii, there have been only three queens who ruled in their own sovereign right. These …ere first, the fabulously beautiful Kaikilani (Heaven?s Portion), second, the powerful and imperious Keakealani (The Blinding Light of H...

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...He mamo o Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole na na alii nui o na mokupuni o Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, a me Kauai. Eia ma lalo nei i hoike ia ai kekahi mau mea nui ma ka mookuauhau o Kuhio i hiki ke ike ia kona pili i na alii kaulana o Hawaii nei a puni o ka wa ma mua. Ma ka aoao o ko Kuhio mookuauhau mai...

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...Ma ka aoao o ko Kuhio mookuauhau mai Hawaii mai, he kupuna kane kuakolu o Keawe no Kuhio ma ka aoao o kona makuahine. Penei ka mookuauhau o Kuhio maia Keawe a Kuhio ponoi: O Keawe ka makua kane o Kalanikauleleiaiwi (w). O Kalanikauleleiaiwi laua o Kanekoa, a h...

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.... 4 -- Ka Hookahuli Aupuni . 6 -- Kona Haalele ana. 10 -- Kona Komo ana i Loko o ka Hana Kalaiaina. 14 -- Ka Home Lula Maoli. 17 -- Ke Kanawai Olelo Hawaii. 18 -- Ke Aupuni Kalana. 19 -- Puuloa. 20 -- Ka Hookipa ana i na Lala o ka Aha Kenekoa. 21 -- No Punana Manu. 22 -- Ka Pila Hoopulapula. 23 -- Kekahi o Kana mau Hana E ae. 29 -- Ka Hele Palanehe i ke Ao ma O. 32 -- He ...

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...age to deliver a double-hulled sailing canoe thousands of miles as a gift to renowned wayfinding navigator Mau Piailug of Satawal, Micronesia. Native Hawaiians delivered the canoe to express their gratitude to Mau for sharing his knowledge of non- instrument navigation 30 years ago, reviving their sailing culture. Courtesy of Polynesian Voyaging Society This map of the Pac...

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...Out of the Northeast Pacific, out of the Hawaiian Islands, of the gods Papa of Earth and Wakea of Water, forged by the fire goddess Pele, came the double-hulled sailing canoes Hokulea and Alingano Maisu. Mai na Koolau Mai Hawaii pae aina Ma o Papa me Wakea Ma o Pele...

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...a a me keia e kipa aku ana imua ona. Oia! O Kalakaua puuwai hamama! O Hale Kipa Oe a ka malihini! O ka Hiku Oe o na Lani i ka Moku—ka Na-i Pomaikai o Hawaii! Aloha! Aloha Oe e ka Makua! Ua hala! Nalo Oe me Kou mau haawina ihikapu i ka.Nenehiwa—Pilihua wale!...

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...n for Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program (KSIRP) students. They are designed to increase students' reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. The books are written by KSIRP staff in an effort to provide young readers with culturally relevant materials in language arts and Hawaiian st...

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...The monarchy period in Hawaii spanned eighty-three years from 1810 to 1893, closing with the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. Beginning with Kamehameha the Great and ending with Liliuokalani, this royal group included seven kings and one queen. Ea...

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...R. S. Kuykendall spent four decades of his life writing the history of Hawaii. He came to the Islands in 1922 as executive secretary of the newly formed Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii. The Commission planned, among other projects, to publish a large-scale history: a general n...

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...This volume is one of the fruits of a project undertaken more than a dozen years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and carried on since 1932 by the University of Hawaii. The project called for the preparation of a comprehensive general history of Hawaii based upon a thorough study of original sources. The first phase of the under...

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...Preface. xi -- List of Abbreviations. xiii -- Introduction: A Glimpse of Ancient Hawaii. 1 -- Coming of the Foreigners. 12 -- Kamehameha and the Founding of the Kingdom. 29 -- 1819. 61 -- Kamehameha II. 71 -- Early Commercial Development. 82 -- New Religion and New Learning. 100 -- The Early Years of the ...

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...This book is the second of three volumes designed to provide a general history of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom. The first volume was published some years ago under the title, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854: Foundation and Transformation. The third volume, which explores the years 1874-1893, deals with the reigns of K...

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...The first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of Califo...

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...9 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. 66 -- The Queen's Hospital. 69 -- Leprosy. 72 -- Immigration. 75 -- The Royal Family. 78 -- Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church. 84 -- Other Religious Developments. 99...

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...This volume contains the history of Hawaii's last reigning king, David Kalakaua. It covers all the way from the beginning (birth) of David Kalakaua, his time as king, and all the way to his death. A highly respected man of his time, this book was written to e...

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...'s name translates literally as "The Day [of] Battle." As his life matched his name, King David Kalakaua's reign was very much a daily battle between Hawaiian traditions and values and Western influences.After his death this king has come to be recognized as a "renaissance man," a modern man of many talents and interests. However, in life his heart was like that of his for...

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...n for Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program (KSIRP) students. They are designed to increase students' reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. The books are written by KSIRP staff in an effort to provide young readers with culturally relevant materials in language arts and Hawaiian st...

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...Hawaii existed as a unified nation for eighty-three years, from 1810 to 1893, closing with the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. Two dynasties ruled, the Kamehameha dynasty and the Kalakaua dynasty. A dynasty is a series of ru...

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... -- Preference for Britain. 41 -- Opposed to Annexation. 45 -- The Sugar Industry. 48 -- No Reciprocity Treaty. 52 -- Other Products to Export. 55 -- Hawaiian Population Decreases. 57 -- Workers from China and Japan. 64 -- Natural Disasters. 68 -- Buildings for Honolulu. 73 -- Kamehameha V's Social Life. 79 -- Country Homes. 81 -- Kamehameha Day. 85 -- The Royal Hawaiian B...

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...ies originally written by faculty in a Kamehameha reading program. The books were designed to increase students reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. Some of these books have been translated from their original English into Hawaiian through the efforts of the staff of the Kamehameha Schools ...

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...to help them. And, like those kings before him, he worked and learned to blend the old ways with new ways. Here is the story of the fourth monarch of Hawaii....

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...In a traditional Hawaiian context, nature and culture are one and the same, there is no division between the two. The wealth and limitations of the land and ocean resources gave birth to, and shaped the Hawaiian world view. The aina (land), w...

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...ion, of The Nature Conservancy, and in partnership with the Department of Land and Natural Resources-Division of Aquatic Resources, the University of Hawaii-Hawaii Natural Heritage Program, and various community organizations, Kumu Pono Associates (Maly and Maly) conducted detailed archivalhistorical documentary research, and oral history interviews to identify and documen...

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...es originally written by faculty in a Kamehameha reading program. The books were designed to increase students' reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. Some of these books have been translated from their original English into Hawaiian through the efforts of the staff of the Kamehameha Schools ...

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...Preface. vii -- Acknowledgments. ix -- Introduction. 1 -- A Princess of Hawaii. 3 -- A School for Royal Children. 18 -- A Gifted Pupil. 30 -- Deeply in Love. 47 -- Of Service to All. 55 -- "No, no! Not me!". 64 -- To Faraway Places. 66 -- Cousin Ruth Keelikolani. 70 -- "Aloha, Pauahi!". 74 -- Leg...

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...The Kumulipo (“Beginning-in-deep-darkness”) is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its two thousand lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family’s divine origin and tracing the family history from the begging...

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... Twenty years have passed since the publication of Martha Warren Beckwith?s translation and extended annotation of the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian cosmogonic and genealogical chant. When it appeared in 1951 she was celebrating her eightieth birthday. Except for one or two brief notes published during the remaining eight years of her life, the book about the Kum...

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...I.The Prose Note. 7 --Ii. Rank In Hawaii. 11 -- Iii. The First-Born Son And The Taboo. 15 -- Iv. Lono Of The Makahiki. 18 --V. Captain Cook As Lono. 22 --Vi. Two Dynasties. 25vii. The Master Of Song. 35 -- Viii. Prologue To The Night World. 42 -- Ix. The Refr...

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...tive beliefs, traditions, customs and practices; the locations of, and types of fish caught; or about the changing the conditions of the resources—in Hawaiian fisheries. The early interviews are taken from notes recorded and expanded by Maly as early as 1975, with excerpts from recorded interviews dating from 1996 to 2002. The interviews conducted specifically as a part ...

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...Ka Hana Lawaia:-Kamaaina Observations (1900 To 2003). 8 -- Oral History Interviews. 10 -- (Cited By Date Of Recording And Island Locations)-Island Of Hawaii:-Mary Kawena Pukui-He Moolelo No Halaea–A Tradition Of The Aku Fisheries-Of Kalae, At Kau, And The Ocean Current Of Halaea-Oral History Interview November 7, 1977 – With Kepa Maly. 10-Camellia Kapuaianahulu Kahiwaaiali...

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...g with the traditional history of the great chief ‘Umi and ending with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854, this volume covers the rediscovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook, the consolidation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by Kamehameha I, the coming of the missionaries and the changes affecting the kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. Origina...

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...d December 16, 1920, was entitled “A Tale of Kekuhaupi‘o, the Famous Warrior of the Era of Kamehameha the Great (Written for the readers of Ka Hoku o Hawaii).” The serial initially focuses on the story of Kekuhaupi‘o, an exceptionally strong and skillful Hawaiian warrior from Ke‘ei, South Kona. As with most noted warriors, he was a master in the ways of battle strategy and...

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...Justice. 457 -- Kamehameha Meets Captain Barber. 459 -- Captain Barber’s Ship Goes Aground. 462 -- The Fragrant Wood of Hawai‘i Nei. 464 -- The First Hawaiian Flag. 466 -- The German Named Scheffer Arrives. 469 -- The Russian Fort and Captain Kotzebue. 472 -- Kotzebue Surveys Honolulu Harbor. 474Kamehameha Becomes Ill. 477 -- Another Kahuna Called to Treat Kamehameha. 479 ...

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...en for Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program (KSIRP) students. They are designed to increase students reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. The books are written by KSIRP staff in an effort to provide young readers with culturally relevant materials in language arts and Hawaiian st...

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...Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli is a biography of the Hawaiian kingdoms third ruler. A biography is a written story of a persons life and is based upon historical records. This story tells about the significant events of Kauikeaoulis life. It starts with his birth and childho...

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... -- Unequal Treaties. 71 -- Recognition of Independence. 74 -- From Lahaina to Honolulu. 77 -- Land Ownership. 79 -- The Right to Own Land. 79 -- The Hawaiian Belief. 83 -- The Land Commission. 86 -- The Mahele. 87 -- The Resident Alien Act of 1850. 93 -- The Kuleana Act of 1850. 94 -- The Constitution of 1852. 98 -- Threats to Hawaiis Peace and Security. 100 -- Expansion...

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...This third volume of the definitive history of the Hawaiian Kingdom completes the project launched over forty years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and taken over in 1932 by the Department of History of the University of Hawaii. As originally plan...

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...In his history of the last years of the Hawaiian monarchy (1874–1893), Professor Kuykendall shows clearly the effects of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 with the United States, tying Hawaii so closely to its nearest neighbor, economically, that annexation became ine...

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...Of The Treaty. 22 -- Amendment, Ratification, And Legislation. 26 -- British Reaction To The Reciprocity Treaty. 40 -- Chapter 3. Reciprocity And The Hawaiian Economy: The Sugar Industry. 46 -- Sugar And Rice, But Mainly Sugar. 46 -- Problem Of Capital. 53 -- Claus Spreckels. 59 -- Acreage Devoted To Sugar. 62 -- Water. 62 -- Fertilizer. 70 -- Lahaina Cane. 71 -- The Sugar...