Noah Dolim

under commandment of the third and i keep mentioning commandment of the third he actually had the longest reign out of all the monarchs he had a 30-year reign so a lot of legal changes happened during his reign and some of the context leading up to those land changes you know again

More foreign settlers coming to Hawaii.

And there's also a couple events of European aggression towards Hawaii.

So at one point, the British actually held or occupied the Hawaiian kingdom for about eight months.

And we actually lost our sovereignty for about half a year.

What year was that?

So this is in 1843.

All right.

And so this is the Paulette Affair.

And so Kamehameha III and his advisor are thinking, okay, how do we secure the sovereignty of the land and make sure that foreigners don't encroach further into Hawaiian land?

And so their idea was that they were going to essentially redistribute the land and recategorize land.

And then the second half of that was to make private land tenureship.

Yes.

So the land, basically all the land in the archipelago was under the sovereign or what we call the mo'i.

And then you had the lesser chiefs who kind of were like the land managers.

And then, of course, again, the people who lived on those lands.

So it was divisions of land that were managed in the system.

But yes, kind of communally held by the sovereign government.

Yes.

Yes.