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Uphill Task as Hawaiians Enforce Political Status

By Robert Keith-Reid, July 2003 (PacificIslands.cc). Hawaii's indigenous Polynesian people like Pacific Islanders elsewhere have had a rough time since European and Asian settlers began the invasion of their islands 200 years ago. Their troubles culminated in 1893 when, prodded by vulturine American businessmen and missionaries, the United States invaded Hawaii in support of a plot to destroy the Hawaiian government and take full control of the country. Hawaii became a United States colony and military base and ground for ruthless commercial exploitation. Hawaiians were killed off in thousands by diseases brought by the invaders and survivors were swamped by an inrush of tens of thousands more white American settlers and Asian plantation labour.

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