Noah Dolim

So basically, out of that Mahele in 1848, all the land in Hawaii is split into three categories or three interests.

So about a third of the land is kept by the sovereign as his private land.

Um, the next third was put aside for the government.

So this is going to be for the Hawaiian kingdom to build infrastructure, you know, agriculture, whatever.

Um, but it was government land and the last third went to the rest of the chiefs.

And then following the Mahele in 1848 is the second half of that legislation, which was the Kuleana Act in 1850, which helped spur that transition to private tenureship.

So it required the common people or the Makainana to put in land claims for the pieces of property they had already been living on.

And so ultimately, Makainana or the common people got very, very little land.

So there was limitations on how much land they could claim in those applications for their title.

And a lot of people just didn't understand...

the point of privatizing land.

So you had people like, you know, oh, what is this like private land?

Like, why doesn't, this doesn't make sense.

We've been living, our family's been living here for centuries.

Why do we need to show the government that we live on this land?

So you had people who just kind of ignored it,

there's also a financial aspect.

You have to pay the surveyor to formally survey your property, which I think it was like $12, which was big money for, you know, basically a peasant, what I call peasant for that time.

So there's these different factors that lead to the commoner people in the Makayana receiving like a

I forget what the exact percentage is, but it was barely a fraction of the total land.