“The government [Kingdom of Hawai’i] was overthrown, not the country.” says David Keanu Sai Ph.D., it’s part koan, part wake up call. Not surprisingly, while serving in the US military, Sai read Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau’s Ruling Chiefs for inspiration. Hawai’i’s history being told from a foreign perspective, in a foreign language (English), has caused a Tower of Babel within and without the Hawaiian community for 123 years.
Frustrated in their personal quests for understanding, Sai and his cousin Kau’i Sai Dudoit rolled up their sleeves, and created a suite of educational materials: Ua Mau Ke Ea Sovereignty Endures: An Overview of the Political and Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands. If this material were as widely read/watched as Gavin Daws’s woefully antiquated 1968 book, A Shoal of Time, the US Department of the Interior would not have needed to make a Ruling. The confusing, divisive, embarrassingly misguided efforts towards “federal recognition” for Hawaiians, etc. would not be happening. The treatyless annexation, statehood, the Jones Act–all obviate. Scholars like Sai, and Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer with his 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award winning No Mākou Ka Mana: Liberating The Nation, bring fresh air to anaerobic academia with rigorous contemporary scholarship.
In addition to making the DVD version of Ua Mau Ke Ea, Kau’i Sai Dudoit gave me the mother lode of Hawaiian educational web resources. Unfortunately, she handed it to me hard copy and it has taken me ages to deal with entering, updating, and annotating the links. MAHALO PIHA Kau’i -This list is phenomenal! Anyone who knows of other excellent resources, please comment and I will add them.
A Brief History of the Hawaiian People (1891) W. D. Alexander
Hawaiian Neutrality: From the Crimean Conflict through the Spanish-American War (2015)
Chronicling America– Historic American Newspapers
The Annexation Of Hawaii: A Collection Of Documents (University of Hawai’i)
Hawaiian Language Dictionaries Note: change the CUSTOMIZE SEARCH menu from “Hwn Dict/Mamāka ” to “All Dictionaries,” why this is not the default is a great mystery and a frustrating impediment for novice scholars.
Papakilo – OHA’s Knowledge Well: various Hawaiian collections
Ho’olaupa’i: Hawaiian Language Newspaper Project
Forum for articles from newspapers with summary translations
Kauai Historical Society Archives
Historical Timeline of Hawai’i Pae ‘Aina
Hawaiʻi Is My MainLand 
Interesting. . . you’re developing something here, not sure what it is, but it will eventually take you to the place you’re supposed to occupy, I think. Consultant? Advocate? Don’t know, but keep it up. XXXXX