Noah Dolim

asked the Hawaiian Kingdom, if we do this treaty with you, then we want exclusive rights to build a coaling station in Pearl Harbor.

No other country can do that.

Coming to Pearl Harbor except for the United States.

And this goes into agreement in 1874 and it's renegotiated again in 1887.

Yeah, so again, I had mentioned King Kalakaua is probably the most misunderstood, controversial, all the different adjectives you can think of, of his reign and his personality.

But what he was primarily known for was his interest in restoring Hawaiian culture, Hawaiian traditions.

So he was interested in

the study of genealogy, of publishing traditional Hawaiian stories, bringing back the performance of hula.

The public practice of hula had been banned for the past 40, 50 years.

So when he has his birthday party, when he has his coronation, he allows the public practice of hula

at the palace grounds.

And this was a big deal amongst the foreign community, which was still adhering to those missionary values of not being promiscuous and not spending money.

So he drew the negative attention from a lot of those settlers.

And a lot of these settlers were also these plantation owners as well.

And it was a mixed group of people.

You had these white plantation owners were missionary descendants.

So people who had been born in Hawaii to missionary parents and also newer foreigners who made up those plantation ownerships.

And they grew very dissatisfied with Kalakaua's reign.

Okay.

Coupled on with that post-Civil War downturn in sugar.