08-05-2015, 05:09 AM
Aloha kakahiaka all.
This thread's title (..."told by Hawaiians") prompts me to post this article below:
(*Snipped - More at link)
On November 20, 1892, U.S. Diplomat John Stevens assigned to Hawai‘i stated in a confidential dispatch to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster, we must “Americanize the islands, assume control of the ‘Crown lands,’ dispose of them in small lots for actual settlers and freeholders for the raising of coffee, oranges, lemons, bananas, pineapples, and grapes, and the result soon will be to give permanent preponderance to a population and a civilization which will make the islands like southern California, and at no distant period convert them into gardens and sanitariums, as well as supply stations for American commerce, thus bringing everything here into harmony with American life and prosperity. To postpone American action many years is only to add to present unfavorable tendencies and to make future possession more difficult.”
After seizing the Hawaiian Islands during the Spanish-American War, the United States initiated a formal policy of denationalization through Americanization throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom’s public schools system. Private schools followed the policy. In 1906, the formal policy was initiated to not only obliterate the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the minds of the children, but to also conceal the blatant violation of Hawai‘i’s sovereignty as a neutral state and the international law of occupation. This program was called “Programme for Patriotic Exercises in the Public Schools.” The purpose of the program was to inculcate American patriotism in the minds of the children and forced them to speak English and not Hawaiian.
http://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/denation...anization/
(*Posted without personal opinion included to avoid any unwarranted, unnecessary confrontational discussion.)
This is a part of what the current "revolution" is all about. The "mantra" includes, the words of our Queen, "Onipa'a", "We are silent no more.", "We are awakened", "EA"!
Ua Mau Ke Ea O ka Aina I ka Pono.
"The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"
Of note, in Washington D.C., there are continued negotiations going on to approve the status of "tribe" for Hawaiians, with proposed consessions almost mirroring the agreements with the "American" Indian tribes.
FWIW/JMO.
This thread's title (..."told by Hawaiians") prompts me to post this article below:
(*Snipped - More at link)
On November 20, 1892, U.S. Diplomat John Stevens assigned to Hawai‘i stated in a confidential dispatch to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster, we must “Americanize the islands, assume control of the ‘Crown lands,’ dispose of them in small lots for actual settlers and freeholders for the raising of coffee, oranges, lemons, bananas, pineapples, and grapes, and the result soon will be to give permanent preponderance to a population and a civilization which will make the islands like southern California, and at no distant period convert them into gardens and sanitariums, as well as supply stations for American commerce, thus bringing everything here into harmony with American life and prosperity. To postpone American action many years is only to add to present unfavorable tendencies and to make future possession more difficult.”
After seizing the Hawaiian Islands during the Spanish-American War, the United States initiated a formal policy of denationalization through Americanization throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom’s public schools system. Private schools followed the policy. In 1906, the formal policy was initiated to not only obliterate the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the minds of the children, but to also conceal the blatant violation of Hawai‘i’s sovereignty as a neutral state and the international law of occupation. This program was called “Programme for Patriotic Exercises in the Public Schools.” The purpose of the program was to inculcate American patriotism in the minds of the children and forced them to speak English and not Hawaiian.
http://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/denation...anization/
(*Posted without personal opinion included to avoid any unwarranted, unnecessary confrontational discussion.)
This is a part of what the current "revolution" is all about. The "mantra" includes, the words of our Queen, "Onipa'a", "We are silent no more.", "We are awakened", "EA"!
Ua Mau Ke Ea O ka Aina I ka Pono.
"The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"
Of note, in Washington D.C., there are continued negotiations going on to approve the status of "tribe" for Hawaiians, with proposed consessions almost mirroring the agreements with the "American" Indian tribes.
FWIW/JMO.