Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen By Liliuokalani

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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a book written by Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. It was published in 1898, five years after the overthrow of the Kingdom. In it, Liliuokalani gives her account of her upbringing, her accession to the throne, the overthrow of her government by pro-American forces, her appeals to the United States to restore the Hawaiian monarchy, and her arrest and trial following an unsuccessful 1895 rebellion against the Republic of Hawaiʻi.Her appeals immediately after the Hawaiian Revolution were acted upon by her friend, President Grover Cleveland, who demanded her reinstatement from the President of Hawaiʻi, Sanford B. Dole, following a confidential investigation and report by James Henderson Blount submitted July 17, 1893. Dole refused Cleveland's demands. Cleveland then referred the matter to the United States Congress. The Congress investigated further and produced the Morgan Report on February 26, 1894 which concluded that the U.S. had no role in the Hawaiian Revolution. Following the Morgan Report, the Turpie Resolution of May 31, 1894 ended any hope for further assistance in regaining her throne, and her further appeals for help were rebuffed by the Cleveland administration.In 1898, the same year the book was originally published, Hawaiʻi was formally annexed by the United States of America.This book is seen by many in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement as a key source documenting the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. Many of her assertions regarding the overthrow are contradicted by other primary sources, including the Morgan Report and the Native Hawaiians Study Commission Report of 1983.In either case, many people believe that the work is successful in conveying the frustration and sadness by the Queen and her supporters both for her loss of the throne, as well as the end of the independent nation of Hawaiʻi upon annexation to the United States.

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Part autobiography, part political history, Queen Lili‘uokalani’s "Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani" tells her story and that of Hawai‘i from her youth through the time of her publication in 1898. The overall impression the reader receives is of a monarchy very similar to those throughout Europe, especially when Queen Lili‘uokalani details her journey to England for Queen Victoria’s jubilee. While these personal stories and travelogues add context, the bulk of the narrative deals with the Hawaiian monarchy and the manner in which American planters subverted it.Writing of Kalakaua and the slanders that followed him, Queen Lili‘uokalani states, “The conclusion cannot be avoided, that if my brother had indeed sought his own pleasure rather than the good of all residents under our flag, his family would be in their hereditary rights to this day. By his liberality to those of American birth he inaugurated the treaty of reciprocity; … and he thus devoted the earlier part of his reign to the aggrandizement of the very persons, who, as soon as they had become rich and powerful, forgot his generosity, and plotted a subversion of his authority, and an overthrow of the constitution under which the kingdom had been happily governed for nearly a quarter of a century” (pg. 96). As to the American planters themselves, Queen Lili‘uokalani writes, “As they became wealthy, and acquired titles and lands through the simplicity of our people and their ignorance of value and of the new land laws, their greed and their love of power proportionately increased; and schemes for aggrandizing themselves still further, or for avoiding the obligations which they had incurred to us, began to occupy their minds” (pg. 209). She adds, “It may be true that they really believed us unfit to be trusted to administer the growing wealth of the Islands in a safe and proper way. But if we manifested any incompetency, it was in not foreseeing that they would be bound by no obligations, by honor, or by oath of allegiance, should an opportunity arise for seizing our country, and bringing it under the authority of the United States” (pg. 210).One of the first efforts of the American planters to assume control over the monarchy resulted in the so-called Bayonet Constitution (1887). Of the king’s singing it, Queen Lili‘uokalani writes, “It may be asked, ‘Why did the king give them his signature?’ I answer without hesitation, because he had discovered traitors among his most trusted friends and knew not in whom he could trust; and because he had every assurance, short of actual demonstration, that the conspirators were ripe for revolution, and had taken measures to have him assassinated if he refused” (pg. 212). Queen Lili‘uokalani details her ascent to the throne and short reign, followed by her forced abdication. She denies the charges of American planters that it was by her choice, but writes, “For myself, I would have chosen death rather than to have signed it; but it was represented to me that by my signing this paper all the persons who had been arrested [attempting to restore the monarchy], all my people now in trouble by reason of their love and loyalty towards me, would be immediately released” (pg. 316).Judge Thomas K. Kaulukukui Jr., Judge Patrick K.S.L. Yim, and Dr. Claire L. Asam, the board of trustees of the Queen Lili‘uokalani Trust, conclude, “While it may appear to the modern reader simply as a ‘memoir’ of Hawai‘i’s last monarch, the objective of the book was not to be a bittersweet life story of a deposed monarch, but rather to build a case against the American League in Hawai‘i; to examine and expose the matter of American intervention into Hawaiian politics; and to present a plea to Americans in general, and to members of the U.S. Congress in particular, to consider the retention of Hawaiian sovereignty, rather than proceeding with the annexation of the Islands by the United States” (pg. xv). This narrative forces Americans to reexamine American imperialism and how it subverted our national principles. The annotated edition of "Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani", published by the Queen Lili‘uokalani Trust and Hui Hānai features extensive notes and photographs of the queen and those around her, further adding to this volume’s use as a primary source.

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