Hawaii: America’s Last Colony

Colonialism arose with the expansion of Western societies, as they sought to dominate other peoples while acquiring wealth and otherwise unavailable raw materials, land, and financial opportunity. Colonizing nations will exercise military, political, and economic control over newly acquired territories, while exploiting cultural traditions to the rest of the world with a steady decline in the native population. After the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, the United States dominated its government, economy, and culture of the indigenous Hawaiian people, a system that was thousands of miles abroad and had no history in the land they sought to take away.
Ancient Hawaiian religion tells us that the Hawaiian race was created from the convergence of Earth and Sky and through this belief, Hawaiian spirit and mana were bound to the land for all generations. Hawaiians also believed that their lives and prosperity were owed to their gods, guarantors of the land. Over 40,000 gods were id...