Assertion - Hawaiian Independence

When most people are asked about Hawaii, they picture a serene group of islands where the surf and beaches are a place where relaxation can take place with great comfort. They picture a place that is just a perfect place to be when times are hard and relaxation is greatly sought.

Would you think of bloodshed or revolution? Would you think of a suffering culture rich in heritage and a conquered nation that has been deprived of all rights execpt the right to die? No, this is not what most people imagine and its the picturing of Hawaii that most people imagine could be but further from the truth. Hawaii and its people who live there, have been in constant revolution for its independence since 1843, when American and other European powers decided to make the Islands a place where they could take as their own and use for their advantages only and not think about the damage that it could do. For over 250 years, Hawaiians has lived with a dictatorship that had sought only to benefit themselves at the expense of the Hawaiians and their great culture. As a person who has grown up with the Hawaiians and has seen, as well as experienced, the damage that the foreigners, or ha'ole as the Hawaiians called them, had done. Hawaii used to be a prominate and great kingdom that had only been a united kingdom for not even a century before the Ha'ole arrive, and yet the Hawaiian Kingdom had fallen to the Ha'ole in less then a decade. The Ha'ole, with weapons far beyond that of the Hawaiians, overpowered and tried to crush the native peoples for their resources and valuables that they desired. The Hawaiians were successful in stopping the Ha'ole from gaining much of the land that they owned for the time being, but eventually all of their land was brutally stolen for and by the Ha'ole. Only in the late 1890's did Hawaii really take action with the United States, the ruling opposer that had claimed the Islands from the other European nations, and demand its land back. Queen Lilioukalani tried to talk to Congress about letting the Islands stay independent from the US' grasp of power and influence. The answer she expected was a peaceful negotiation that would at least give the Kingdom a portion of its land to rule, but that became a dream from then on out because the United States rejected their compromise. To make matters even worse, the United States Annexed the Islands into the Union and had official ruling over the Islands, even with the resources that the Hawaiians had, they could not do anything but revolt slowly for their numbers and technologies were greatly out-numbered by the United States 5:4800. With the little that the Hawaiians could do, they could boycott the United States and act upon civil disobedience, but that is as far as they can go with the resources they had.

Today, even, the Hawaiians still fight for their independence with the United States and demand that they be given back all land taken from them and become their own kingdom once more. Without ever giving up hope, the Hawaiians believe that one day soon, they will secede from the wretched United States and become the once glorious Kingdom of Hawaii. With the recent uprisings that have taken place, the bill s-147, has been brought up in Congress as a compromise to secede Hawaii from the Union and have independence. This has been a major accomplishment for Hawaiians in their fight to gain independence, and have stated time and time again that Hawaii, as a great Kingdom as it was, will become independent again.

Essay based off prior knowledge and from http://www.countercurrents.org/hawai-marsh081205.htm