Don Wildman

We're telling the story, though, of how all this is appropriated and destroyed, really, inside of a matter of decades.

And I can't help but think about this.

When I arrive, I've maybe done Hawaii three or four times in my life.

I live in the east coast of the United States.

Yes.

Yes.

I just really want to underscore this because it's obviously will play an enormous part.

And I think it had a huge theme to that for those Americans who were seeing opportunity.

Sometimes that quality of a culture is misunderstood and played upon.

The word is love.

I mean, you literally feel a sense of love when you're there.

And it's palpable everywhere you go.

So that has gone back all the way.

And, you know, to the indigenous culture, certainly.

But even visitors in the 19th century were having that feeling.

So it's a really important thing to keep in mind as we talk about how things change so quickly.

In 1887, we meet the first shift.

Let's call it that.

There are constitutional changes all the way along which favor the wealthy.

And are influenced heavily by foreign-born people, right?