Noah Dolim

And all really to secure an economic future for a small group of people

who are, you know, committed to agriculture and it's, you know, kind of

So from the 1880s and particularly post-overthrow, there was massive, massive resistance from Hawaiian people, not just of the monarchy and the chiefs, but of the people of the land.

And this resulted in

petitions, it resulted in actually formalized groups, political groups that were going actually to the U.S.

They were writing in newspapers, doing all types of things, and kind of in conversations with the queen as well.

One of the big outcomes of this political organization by Native Hawaiians

was the 1897 petitions against annexation.

And these petitions were hand-delivered across the Hawaiian islands by a group called Hui Aloha Aina, which is generally translated as the Hawaiian Patriotic League.

These petitions in total were about 28,000 signatures, which was, you know, kind of like the bulk of the adult population of Native Hawaiians.

The Kue population.

Yeah, Kue.

Kue petitions.

And Kue, that word Kue is important.

I'm glad you brought that up, Don.

Kūe means to... Kū means to stand and e means like different or in opposition to.

So to stand in opposition to.

So a resistance petition.

So my great, great, great, great grandparents actually have their signatures

On that petition and some of our other family, we have, you know, high definition scans of those petitions today.