Over the many decades that Hawaii was a territory of the United States, the government and the education system gradually totally hid from the people the fact that the United States had overthrown their queen and illegally annexed their nation. In 1990 Dr. Kioni Dudley and Keoni Agard co-authored “A Call for Hawaiian Sovereignty,” a highly documented book which for the first time told the true history of Hawaii. With its irrefutable facts, it soon became the printed, reasoned-argument for the growing sovereignty movement.
In 1993 President Bill Clinton signed and sent the Hawaiian people an Apology Resolution passed by both Houses of Congress which recognized U.S. wrong-doing and promised negotiations. The State of Hawaii has funded an election of delegates and two Constitutional Conventions. State funding was dropped during the first convention. There was no follow through after the second.
Poka Laenui (aka Hayden Burgess) and Leon Siu have spent decades building relationships and ever-greater awareness of Hawaii’s cause at the United Nations in New York and among its several committees headquartered in Geneva. Three quarters of the UN member-nations were formerly colonized by more powerful nations. Many of them share parallels with our experiences and strongly sympathize with our cause. Leon Siu spent December 2018 presenting this paper to UN delegations interested in our cause. It is quite likely that it will be put to a vote in the current session.
So much U.S. wrong-doing has been uncovered in the last thirty years. This paper focuses on the great wrong-doing surrounding the vote for statehood. Many of these incidents are reaching print for the first time.
How could this Hawaiian sovereignty issue impact 2050? The United Nations vote whould soon force the United States to address its actions and negotiate with the descendants of the Hawaiian Kingdom—native Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian.
There are other reasons that the U.S. may actually be anxious to create a different, more distant relationship with Hawaii over the next few decades. All of the disastrous problems discussed in this website will also affect the mainland U.S.—with a hundred times greater impact. America is mostly surrounded by oceans. With rising seas, many of its major cities on the coastlines will suffer loss of whole sections and of buildings that house their most critical functions. At the same time, the two most essential aquifers in the U.S. will run dry. They underlie the two breadbaskets of America. The U.S. will need to find new ways to provide water and to produce enough food for the nation. There will be little food for import because of the needs elsewhere caused by the world population explosion. At this same time, warming seas will bring devastating Category 5 hurricanes on a regular basis.
When all of this begins to happen, America may well be anxious to set Hawaii free, especially if the new nation is willing to continue providing land for military bases—this time, with rent.
It is time for us all to realize that this possibility is on the horizon. We must begin investigating how we can all live together in peace and aloha as that new nation.
It all starts with understanding the truth of U.S. wrong-doing. This paper will contribute to that knowledge.