Don Wildman

Yes.

And he sees this as a military necessity.

So in a sense, Hawaii is annexed through a joint resolution passed by a simple majority in Congress.

It's called the Newlands Resolution.

Again, too much rabbit hole there, but there's a lot of little chapters is the point.

Moving onwards to the 1950s, which seems like, you know.

A lot happens in the 20th century, obviously.

Much of it reflects the way other native populations are treated in all of this expansionism of the United States.

Hawaiian language education eventually is banned in schools.

Traditional practices discouraged, even criminalized.

Land dispossession, as you're suggesting, continues throughout all this time period.

We're not even talking about the industrial side of this, the dole plantations, the rise of the pineapple, and all sorts of agricultural aspects of this.

And never mind tourism, of course.

By the mid-20th century, Native Hawaiians faced disproportionate poverty, health issues, and lawlessness due to all of these annexation-era policies that had gone on.

The United States' attention, of course, has been shifting back and forth all over the place from the Philippines, the Spanish-American War, to World War I, to World War II.

A lot happens in this period of time.

And we're letting that sit for a while.

It is when probably the Cold War is it plays a big part of this when the United States really has to nail this down as far as they're concerned that Pearl Harbor is ours.

And this is how it's going to be.

And that's when.