Title: Hawaiian sovereignty movement - Wikipedia
Headings: Hawaiian sovereignty movement
Hawaiian sovereignty movement
Contents
History
Background
Historical groups
Sovereignty and cultural rights organizations
ALOHA
Ka Lāhui
Ka Pākaukau
Nation of Hawaiʻi
Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawaiʻi – The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
Mauna Kea Anaina Hou
Poka Laenui
Protect Kahoolawe Ohana (PKO)
Hawaiian Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom Government
Hawaiian sovereignty activists and advocates
Reaction
The Apology Bill and the Akaka Bill
Opposition
Proposed United States federal recognition of Native Hawaiians
See also
References
Further reading
External links
Politics
Media
Opposition

Content: In the first one hundred years of contact with Western civilization, due to disease and war, the Hawaiian population dropped by ninety percent, to only 53,900 people in 1876. American missionaries would arrive in 1820 and assume great power and influence. Despite formal recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii by the United States and other world powers, the kingdom was overthrown beginning January 17, 1893, with a coup d'état orchestrated by, mostly, Americans within the kingdom's legislature, with aid from the United States military. The Blount Report is the popular name given to the part of the 1893 United States House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Report regarding the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The report was conducted by U.S. Commissioner James H. Blount, appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to investigate the events surrounding the January 1893 coup. This report provides the first evidence that officially identifies the United States' complicity in the overthrow of the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Blount concluded that U.S. Minister to Hawaii John L. Stevens had, in fact, carried out unauthorized partisan activities that included the landing of U.S. Marines under a false or exaggerated pretext to support anti-royalist conspirators; the report went on to find that these actions were instrumental to the success of the revolution and that the revolution was carried out against the wishes of a majority of the population of the Hawaiian Kingdom and/or its Royalty. Native Hawaiians, activists and supporters commemorate January 17 annually. On December 14, 1893, Albert Willis arrived unannounced in Honolulu aboard the USRC Corwin, bringing with him an anticipation of an American invasion in order to restore the monarchy, which became known as the Black Week.