I hope the movie tells how brutal Americans were to coerce the Hawaiians into submission and statehood for the exploitation of sugar. yes, the statehood of Hawaii is illegal since over 90% of the civilians there never votes for the annexation.

I would recomend Grandmothers Whisper by Inette Miller to gain a perspective of the past and present struggle of the native population

GREEDY  rich, CAN’T GET ENOUGH!  They live to feed their GREED, and their GREED feeds their need!
    Many have used religions, to ‘justify’, cover, and accomplish their thefts, and other crimes!

Mahalo Nui Loa for  this program.  Most mainland Americans do not know the history  behind how the Hawaiian Islands became first a US territory & then a state.  I lived in Hawai’i (to study hula) and visited the room where  Queen Lili’uokalani was a prisoner.  A sad reminder of American Imperialism.

My great grandfather Cooper was involved in the overthrow of the queen. The gates of the queen’s palace hung onmy aunts house in Cape Cod. There was a silver surving tray at my fathers house with the queens crest on it. A relative said to my father “many of the family members are returning these things to the island”. My father responded “well if die they can have it” when he died a few years later were returned the silver tray to Hawaii

I was waiting for the Brady vacation to be mentioned. 

I didn’t catch the entire segment, but I was shocked by what I did hear.  There was a lot of discussion of the U.S. forcibly taking the islands away from the indigenous peoples, and how horrible that was, tut tut, and Julia Flynn Siler, promoting her new book of course, characterized it as “the U.S. first real act of colonialism”.  Are you kidding?  Every square inch of the U.S., from Florida to Alaska to Hawaii involved forcibly taking the land away from indigenous peoples.  Remember the “Trail of Tears”, the forced march of Native Americans away from the land in Florida that they had populated, as a sovereign nation, for centuries?  Remember “Wounded Knee”, in South Dakota, in which Native Americans from the Sioux Nation used force to resist incursions by the federal government into the reservation, arguing that theirs was a sovereign nation?  For that they were prosecuted in federal court and jailed.  If it wasn’t so tragically sad and ironic, it might be kind of amusing to watch states, including this Commonwealth, falling all over themselves to try to get casinos established on Native American land, to bring in the jobs and the revenue.  The entire concept underlying allowing such establishments to be located on tribal land is recognizing the sovereignty of the local tribe.  We’re willing to do that when it suits our interests, but should any of these uppity “Injuns” try to do anything on their tribal lands that we don’t want, claiming that they are a sovereign nation and thereby not bound by federal and state law, look out!  The full force of government, enforced by armed army troops and federal agents, would fall on their heads pretty damn quick, you betcha!