Noah Dolim

minister to Hawaii and the community safety were, they were in cahoots already.

Minister Stevens was acting on his own accord in which

which leads to him getting fired by the United States because it was not an authorized call to land those Marines that shipped the USS Boston.

It had actually been in Honolulu Harbor for quite a while, but Administrator Stevens took it upon himself to call those Marines ashore as a show of force and, you know, quote, unquote, you know, to protect the American people and property.

But it was really to be the, you know, unofficial order

are part of the unofficial militia for this Hawaiian League, sorry, Committee of Safety.

As far as the responses of Hawaiian people, I mean, this is devastating, right?

You've seen the last five years where monarchy is stripped of its power.

And then this is kind of like the nail in the coffin with the actual overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom.

And I might also remind of years too, especially with some of these men who were missionary descendants.

These are men that people knew

Over time, you know, the people like for even amongst the chiefs, they had grown up with some of these people.

So there, you know, this was a huge this wasn't just like a random people.

This is people who are who betrayed the queen of the country.

So over that span of the 1890s, the United States, you know, switching back to the U.S.

history side, this is the United States had reached the end of the quote unquote frontier period.

They had essentially quelled at least the major wars in the West against Native American people.

And there was this question of where should the United States go?

Should the United States remain an isolationist country?

Does it need to expand and now look for new markets?