Noah Dolim

They're actually located in Washington, D.C.

in the National Archives because they're hand delivered to Washington, D.C.

in 1897 and it actually stops an attempt at annexation in that year.

Amazing.

Yeah, and so the US, on the US side, they realize, hey, this whole annexation thing, it seems like the actual Hawaiian people or the bulk of the population is not aboard with this annexation thing.

So they start rethinking and to actually go through with annexation, it would have required the majority of

Congress to approve annexation.

So they see these petitions as kind of evidence that, hey, this might not be a popular movement in Hawaii.

blink ago when you're talking about all this other stuff that happens it is formally made a u.s territory in 1900 all that while queen liliu continues to fight right right right so and i just want to point out one thing about the annexation again for listeners there is no treaty of annexation that ever existed between no no i meant from the american standpoint from the american standpoint we annexed it

yeah but it's funny because you know we have a we have a high school in honolulu called named after mckinley mckinley high school there's a statue of mckinley there and in his hand he's holding a document called the tree of annexation so the joke here in hawaii is that that's the only treaty that exists is on that statue and they recently put they recently put up a sign explaining that the actual real history uh but going back to your question about liliu and the end of her life uh so liliu you know she doesn't

passed away until 1917.

So she has another almost 20 years after annexation.

She's living her life, but she doesn't just fade away into obscurity.

She's trying to fight for the return of her land.

So going back to that Mahele in 1848, which set aside about a third of all the lands in Hawaii as the private lands of the monarchs.

Lili'u was never compensated for those lands.

The provisional government, when it ceded power to the United States in a transition to territoriality, it combined the government lands and the private lands together.

And the private lands, we also refer to those as crown lands, belonging to the crown.

And so Lili'u tries to ask the United States, hey, I would like these lands back there.

It's supposed to be my private lands.