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: A 2005 Grassroot Institute poll found the majority of Hawaiian residents opposed the Akaka Bill. Background
Main articles: Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Blount Report, and Opposition to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
The ancestors of Native Hawaiians may have arrived in the Hawaiian Islands around 350 CE, from other areas of Polynesia. By the time Captain Cook arrived, Hawaii had a well-established culture with a population estimated to be between 400,000 and 900,000 people. Starting in 1795 and completed by 1810, Kamehameha I conquered the entire archipelago and formed the unified Kingdom of Hawaii. 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.