At the museum there was an exhibition about Hawai'i. And their history is really different from the american indians ones. In (not so) short:
James Cook arrived to Hawai'i in 1776 or 8, was deeply impressed with their civilisation and people, and left illnesses that decimated the population from 1 million to 130 000. Great economical, religious and political instability ensues. Traders, fishers and missionaries visit them, lots of people convert to christianism, and around 1820 a strong king arrives to power (not quite about how those three things tie together chronologically). The king gets Hawai'i officially recognized as an independent nation and ties political and trade treaties with everybody.
Also, pretty much everyone know how to write and read, they dress in a european way, build their royal palace so too, and their monarchs probably know how to speak english.
The missionaries become merchants, bully Hawai'i (1848) into making land something you can claim ownership on, dispossess the Hawai'ian natives and when in 1893 the queen wants to restore power to her people, the ex-missionaries stage a Coup with US troops.
The US government ponders if it is moral (it is anti-constitutional and explicitly against international laws).
Three years later, the US have a war going on somewhere else, and decide annexing Hawai'i totally is moral, because that's a really strategical position and the people there are "Negro savages" anyway (big racist caricatures in the newspaper, though twenty years earlier when the king visited everyone was impressed).
Assimilation and acculturation ensues, 'cause it's America now (though probably not quite as bad as the American Natives had it).
october 11th
James Cook arrived to Hawai'i in 1776 or 8, was deeply impressed with their civilisation and people, and left illnesses that decimated the population from 1 million to 130 000. Great economical, religious and political instability ensues. Traders, fishers and missionaries visit them, lots of people convert to christianism, and around 1820 a strong king arrives to power (not quite about how those three things tie together chronologically). The king gets Hawai'i officially recognized as an independent nation and ties political and trade treaties with everybody.
Also, pretty much everyone know how to write and read, they dress in a european way, build their royal palace so too, and their monarchs probably know how to speak english.
The missionaries become merchants, bully Hawai'i (1848) into making land something you can claim ownership on, dispossess the Hawai'ian natives and when in 1893 the queen wants to restore power to her people, the ex-missionaries stage a Coup with US troops.
The US government ponders if it is moral (it is anti-constitutional and explicitly against international laws).
Three years later, the US have a war going on somewhere else, and decide annexing Hawai'i totally is moral, because that's a really strategical position and the people there are "Negro savages" anyway (big racist caricatures in the newspaper, though twenty years earlier when the king visited everyone was impressed).
Assimilation and acculturation ensues, 'cause it's America now (though probably not quite as bad as the American Natives had it).
october 11th
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