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.
