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hawaii
1. climb Mount Everest, you might want to surf in Hawaii, whatever you want to do, that is also a goal
2. Between New Zealand and Hawaii, this has one of the best-protected harbours in the South Pacific
3. The Sandwich Islands was the name given to Hawaii by Captain
4. nineteenth century, the name fell into disuse and was replaced by Hawaii
5. Hawaiian luau, the most complete spread of the finest food and
6. Pacific Ocean, it was quite common for the young Hawaiian
7. beautiful and the daughter of a Hawaiian tribal chief and was
8. and Japan, by way of the Hawaiian Islands
9. The Milo also gammed with whaleships from other ports including the Covington of Rhode Island, the Hae Hawaii and
10. The latter vessel belonged to Honolulu and had the Hawaiian flag and clearance papers, but the excuse given for burning her was that she did not have the transfer papers on board
11. Eric and I traveled all over the country, even to Hawaii
12. was that if you wanted to spend Christmas in Hawaii you’d have to be on the waiting list for five years
13. They were eating supper after Nathan had had a bath and changed into some soft cotton trousers and a Hawaiian shirt
14. What follows should give pause to those straddling the fence on this issue: California‘s popular vote (54 electoral votes) for example, could potentially neutralize the combined votes of Delaware (3), Maine (4), Hawaii (4), Alaska (3), New Mexico (5), Nevada (4), Utah (5), Idaho (4), Montana (3), Wyoming (3), North Dakota (3), South Da kota (3), Vermont (3), New Hampshire (4), and Rhode Island (4) or fifteen states in all presently under the ―protection‖ of the E
15. Like those over there,” pointing at two men with the stretched skin of bulbous stomachs threatening to tear buttons from their Hawaiian shirts
16. Though Hawaii had the largest Japanese-American population in the country, they were left alone
17. American economic interests especially sugar cane plantation owners were the ones who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii
18. Hawaii has suffered the most from colonialism of any American island colonies
19. There is a tendency to forget, or more often to never teach in US schools, that for almost 70 years, Hawaii was an independent kingdom with diplomatic recognition, relations, and treaties with major nations including the US
20. The missionaries and their children turned into plantation owners, coveting Hawaii's rich soil, ideal for sugarcane
21. By 1900, Native Hawaiians made up only 20% of the nation's population
22. She called for a new constitution, one where Hawaiians would rule their own islands again
23. The committee declared the Republic of Hawaii and called for the US to take over
24. A Native Hawaiian counterrevolution failed, and their petition to the US Congress failed to get US troops to restore the Queen
25. The Hawaiian language was banned until 1986
26. The Hawaiian religion was also banned
27. A white exploiter, Max Freedom Long, later invented a false impersonation of Hawaiian religion he called Huna, which some whites today naively believe is Hawaiian
28. Hawaii continued to have a turbulent history, with some one of the most radical labor conflicts in the US, seeing major strikes in 1900, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1934, 1938,and 1940
29. The plantation owners kept a racial hierarchy in place, whites at the top, followed by Japanese, other Asians, other nonwhites, and Native Hawaiians at the bottom socially and economically in their own homeland
30. Many non-Hawaiians voted, mostly US servicemen, while many Asians were barred
31. Most scholarly specialists agree with the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, that Hawaii remains an occupied nation under illegal US rule
32. Native Hawaiians continue to work for a return to independence, and can point to some victories, the end of the language ban, restoration of voting rights, Hawaiian language schools, and a cultural renaissance
33. Independence sentiment is the strongest in Virgin Islanders of any of these island peoples except Native Hawaiians
34. Eisenhower also signed the illegal statehood bill for Hawaii, over the objections of most Native Hawaiians
35. Cleveland as an anti-imperialist refused to annex Hawaii
36. Obama has publicly vowed to sign the Akaka Bill if Congress passes it, which would grant Native Hawaiians status similar to an American Indian tribe, a reservation and government to government relations with the US
37. What would happen to Hawaii? Plantation owners not only overthrew the legitimate Hawaiian Queen, Liliuokalani, they defeated an attempt by Hawaiians to retake their homeland
38. The so called Republic of Hawaii limited the vote to only 4,000 out of a population of over 100,000
39. Only white property owners could vote, with Asian voting specifically forbidden and almost all Native Hawaiians barred by literacy tests
40. In the 1950s, Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific would be a perfect stop over for growing international air travel
41. An independent Hawaii would be far more prosperous, perhaps without the crasser tourism, and self rule instead of being a colony with much of her wealth exported to the mainland US
42. Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Samoa may become independent nations
43. Hawaii only became a US state in 1957 because the UN was pressuring empires to set their colonies free
44. The US fought five wars to expand slavery, and conquered territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific and beyond, to Hawaii and the Philippines
45. “Is that Pacific Time or Hawaiian? Hawaii does have its own time zone, you know
46. She applied for overseas duty, selecting Hawaii from the list of possibilities
47. That reminds me of Spike Jones and the City Slickers and his wonderful rendition of Hawaiian War Chant which starts:
48. Whatever happened to garbage bins and refuse collection services? I don’t suppose there will ever be enough of either or is it that people don’t know about them? Larry, my Hawaiian surfer friend, tells me that most of this rubbish is dumped off the Indonesian coast and comes here on the tide
49. Cracknell comes from Hawaii and is an avid surfer
50. to Hawaii on their honeymoon
