Aloha to the US: Is Hawai'i an Occupied Nation? T. K. Brown - BBC News Magazine
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34680564 <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016hdoMXAcORpNcZjUtF3rk4sxlAw7V1WrFGodPRC3a7GOtL7ZZEVXLbi2ZysrWb36nO4D_wgvmupd9WPsuwHsuHQ1ROkKmP05qP8cMXFuqYytbcCC4Lo1FVANkx5V85ChtfnqWl78w-_06vSLyZRFFCshQScUVDak6EwKUYo5ZVRgwHKUE1nWxstf3sk8odmYdicoDc5iZYs=&c=WVu_QfxKOB0fYV2JS2kkep1z1oRV1z_IHxjTGBOpCxGBEZzmiW5AEw==&ch=UyMkeS_1My8qRjTFX0YnpfgSBbmOdKHiHVQXbQclbU5p4TGrYy8unw==> An upcoming election has highlighted the deep disagreement between native Hawaiians over what the future should look like. For some, it's formal recognition of their community and a changed relationship within the US. Others want to leave the US entirely - or more accurately, want the US to leave Hawai'i ... Hawaii occupies a unique place in US history -- a set of islands 2,500 miles away from the mainland where in 1893, white businessmen and sympathetic politicians, with help from the US military, overthrew a constitutional monarchy ... By the time of the overthrow in 1893, the Hawaiian population had gone from at least 400,000 to less than 40,000 people - all in the space of a century, in part because of diseases introduced into the islands. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/senet. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
