Noah Dolim

Whooping cough, some unknown diseases, but yes, venereal diseases that cause people to become sterile.

So different effects on the population.

Yes, it was because of disease, the Hawaiian leadership, the world, the Hawaii as a world was quickly changing.

You're seeing your population diminish, but you're also seeing these new people starting to come into Hawaii faster.

Not a major settlement of foreigners in that early period, but more so people coming and going.

But it was definitely a quickly changing world.

You know, technology, ships, Western weapons, food, clothing.

Hawaii was really changing at a rapid pace in a very short span of time.

Right.

In 1820, the first Protestant missionaries are Calvinists who come from New England out of Boston and their connections to Yale and that religious community up in New England.

They arrived in Hawaii in 1820, and this is the first, like, real formal settlement of American foreigners, or actually any group of outsiders.

Again, you highlight more transient communities and, you know,

people who deserted ships, but this was a real intentional settlement in Hawaii by these missionaries.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So even prior, even in the early period, even though there wasn't that formal recognition into the 1840s, the Hawaiian kingdom had been trying to, you know, engage in diplomacy, international diplomacy, primarily with Great Britain.

And that's a long story, but, you know, it's reflected in our Hawaiian flag and why we have a Nyi Nyi Nja, Kamehameha flag.

The first, and then later his son, the second.

We're trying to make, we're trying to bring the Hawaiian kingdom closer to England and with King George.

Later on in the 1840s, that finally kind of came true in those diplomatic trips under Kamehameha the third, who was another son of Kamehameha the first.