Articles by Hawaiian Kingdom Blog
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Hawaiian Nationality: Who Comprises the Hawaiian Citizenry
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – Nationality is the legal bond between a person and a State and does not indicate the person’s ethnic origin. It is a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a given State. The terms nationality and citizenship are synonymous.
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Operational Plan for Transitioning the Military Government into the Hawaiian Kingdom Government
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18 Sep 2023
12 Sep 2023 – Bringing the U.S. Occupation to an End – What the U.S. military did when they invaded Hawaiian territory and caused the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government was unlawful, and admitted being so by President Grover Cleveland, but that didn’t mean it ended then and there.
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Operational Plan for Transitioning the State of Hawai’i into a Military Government According to International Law Made Public
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28 Aug 2023
21 Aug 2023 – It is unfortunate that the tragedy of Lahaina has become an urgency for the State of Hawai‘i to begin to comply with the law of occupation and establish a military government. To not do so is a war crime of omission. Despite the prolonged nature of the US occupation and 130 years of non-compliance to the law of occupation, there are two fundamental rules that prevail.
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The War Crime of Usurpation of Sovereignty by the US against the Hawaiian Islands since 1898
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19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation was listed as a war crime in a 1919 report by the Commission on Responsibilities of the Paris Peace Conference.
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The American Pot Calling the Russian Kettle Black
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3 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022 – Unlike Ukraine, there was no Reuters news agency in the 1890s informing the world of the illegal activities of the United States against the Hawaiian Kingdom and the illegal annexation of the Hawaiian Islands for military purposes during the Spanish-American War. While there is a difference in time, the Russian actions bear a striking resemblance to the US actions in seizing the entire territory of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
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Clarifying the Right of Self-determination Regarding Hawai‘i
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23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Self-determination is the “legal right of people to determine their own destiny in the international order.” At the very top of this order are the people of established States, which is also referred to as countries. The second unit are the people in non-self-governing territories, which are non-States in a colonial situation. The third unit are the Indigenous Peoples, which are tribal peoples that exist within the territory of an established State not of their own making.
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30 Nov 2020
November 28th is the most important national holiday in the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is the day Great Britain and France formally recognized the Hawaiian Islands as an “independent state” in 1843, and has since been celebrated as “Independence Day,” which in the Hawaiian language is “La Ku‘oko‘a.”
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National Lawyers Guild Calls Upon State of Hawai‘i to Comply with International Law of Occupation
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16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – On Monday January 16, 1893, United States Minister intervened in the internal affairs of the Hawaiian Kingdom when he ordered U.S. troops to invade Honolulu and overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom government in order to replace it with an insurgency he supported. The next day, the insurgents, in the presence of and protected by armed-for-battle U.S. military forces, declared themselves a “provisional government”. Under threat of violence by the U.S. military forces, Queen Lili‘uokalani conditionally surrendered to the United States.
→ read full articleRoyal Commission of Inquiry Calls Upon the State of Hawai‘i to Comply with International Law and to Work with the Council of Regency
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15 Jun 2020
9 Jun 2020, Hawaiian Kingdom – Denationalization was formally initiated in 1906 by the Board of Education and carried into effect within the public and private schools throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Within three generations, Hawaiian Kingdom national consciousness had been effectively replaced with American national consciousness and the national language of Hawaiian replaced with English. As part of this inculcation, young students were led to falsely believe that the Hawaiian Islands had become a part of the United States, and they were now American citizens.
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126 Years Ago Today: U.S. Invasion of Hawai‘i
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21 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – As an independent State, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into extensive treaty relations with a variety of States establishing diplomatic relations and trade agreements. In 1893 there were only 44 independent and sovereign States, which included the Hawaiian Kingdom, as compared to 197 today. On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom, which led to a conditional surrender by Her Majesty Queen Lili‘uokalani, the following day. Her conditional surrender read:
→ read full articleHawaiian Kingdom Files Lawsuit against President Trump in Washington, D.C.
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23 Jul 2018
Petition for an Emergency Writ of Mandamus filed with U.S. Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., against President Trump regarding the prolonged American occupation of the Hawaiian Islands. [David Keanu Sai vs. Donald John Trump et. al, Case: 1:18-cv-01500]
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U.S. Commits “Acts of War” against the Hawaiian Kingdom
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22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – Today marks 125 years of an Unjust War waged against the Hawaiian Kingdom by the USA. This profound and fundamental fact has been obscured through a deliberate and relentless barrage of denationalization by the US. This process, which is known as Americanization and which is a war crime, has nearly obliterated the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the minds of Hawai‘i’s people.
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23 Oct 2017
16 Oct 2017 – Under international law, the United States committed war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied in1893. The criminal conduct by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia during the First World War are very similar to the criminal conduct by the USA against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people in 1893.
→ read full articleDistinguishing Indigenous Sovereignty from State Sovereignty
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
It is wrong to say that natives of Hawai‘i are an indigenous people because it would imply they do not have a State of their own. This labeling is an American narrative that has no basis in historical facts or law. Rather, natives are the majority of Hawaiian subjects, being the citizenry of the Hawaiian Kingdom that has been in an unjust war by the United States since 1893.
→ read full articleJanuary 17, 1893: United States Illegally Overthrows Hawaiian Government
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23 Jan 2017
The investigation concluded that the United States diplomat and troops were directly responsible for the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian government with the ultimate goal of transferring the Hawaiian Islands to the USA. The report also detailed US government actions that violated international laws as well as Hawaiian territorial sovereignty.
→ read full articleThe Smoking Gun! No Question on Illegality of the U.S. Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government in 1893
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9 Jan 2017
2 Jan 2017 – In 2016, Duke University Press published Tom Coffman’s Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai‘i. While this book has been in circulation since 1998, it is the first time that an academic publisher has put its name to the book. The goal of Duke University Press is “to contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship.”
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12 Dec 2016
10 Dec 2016 – Japan’s Seijo University’s Center for Glocal Studies has published an article authored by Dennis Riches titled “This is not America: The Acting Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom Goes Global with Legal Challenges to End Occupation.” The study focused on the American occupation of Hawai‘i and its global impact, which includes war crimes.
→ read full articleSettling the Confusion of Sovereignty and Independence
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Because international law distinguishes between “internal” and “external” sovereignties, a State would remain independent and sovereign, despite its government, which exercises its internal sovereignty, having been overthrown by another State and subsequently occupied. This is why the law of occupation mandates the occupier to administer the laws of the occupied State under Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Convention, IV.
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1 Aug 2016
Today is July 31, which is a national holiday in the Hawaiian Kingdom, called “Restoration day,” and it is directly linked to another holiday observed on November 28th called “Independence day.” Here is a brief history of these two celebrated holidays.
→ read full articleThe Martens Clause and War Crimes in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
Under the principles of international law, the USA was capable of committing war crimes when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded and occupied since August 12, 1898. The criminal conduct committed by German, Austrian and Bulgarian officials against Serbia and its people are very similar to the criminal conduct by the United States after 1898 against the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people.
→ read full articleUnder International Law Native Hawaiians Are Victims of Genocide
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Since the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom began during the Spanish-American War, the United States embarked on a deliberate campaign of forced denationalization in order to conceal the occupation and militarization of a neutral State. Denationalization, in its totality, is genocide. [Hawaii was annexed and became the 50th State of the USA on August 21, 1959]
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