The History of Alaskan and Hawaiian Statehood- Ep 18 of Crash Course Native American History
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This is a map of the 574 federally recognized tribal nations
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in what's now known as the United States.
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And there's something weird about it.
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Well,
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there's a lot of things weird about it,
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but let's look at this one.
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A full 40 % of those tribes are in Alaska alone.
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And hold on,
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none of them are in Hawaii?
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What's going on here?
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Hi,
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I'm Che Jim and welcome to Crash Course Native American History.
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In many ways,
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Alaska and Hawaii are exceptions.
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They're the only two U .S.
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states that are non -contiguous or not connected to the mainland.
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And the relationships between their native populations and the U .S.
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government are pretty unique,
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both in comparison to the other 48 states and to each other.
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Let's start with Alaska,
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which is huge.
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It's bigger than Texas,
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California,
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and Montana combined.
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If it's not the negative 50 -degree winters that'll get you,
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it'll be the mosquito -filled summers when the sun never goes down.
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But Alaskan natives have thrived here for at least 10 ,000 years,
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living not just on these lands,
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but with them.
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Traditionally,
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they've oriented their lives around a subsistence lifestyle of hunting,
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fishing,
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and gathering with the seasons.
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The native nations of Alaska fall into five major cultural groups.
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each with their own distinct languages,
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customs,
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art forms,
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and histories.
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And they're divided pretty evenly across the state.
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You've got the Athabaskans,
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or Denna, in the interior,
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the Inupia and St.
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Lawrence Island, Yupik in the north,
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the Yupik and Chupik in the southwest,
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the Aliyu and Elutik in this southern stretch of islands,
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and the Haida,
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Tlingit, Shimshehan,
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and Eyak peoples along the southeastern coast.
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Alaskan natives?
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Assemble.
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In some ways,
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these tribes' experiences of colonization mirror what happened to Native people down
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south.
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They've dealt with disease,
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forced conversion to Christianity,
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and a devastating loss of land,
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culture, and lives.
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But in other ways,
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what happened to Alaska is its own unique story.
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For starters,
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their first colonizers were Russians.
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Alaska natives' relationship with Uncle Sam didn't begin until 1867,
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when the U .S.
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purchased Alaska from Russia for $7 .2 million,
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which comes out to about two cents
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an acre.
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That'd be a pretty good deal if the land wasn't,
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you know, stolen.
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Over the next few decades,
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Alaska became a military district,
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then a mining district,
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then in 1912,
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a U .S.
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territory.
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But all the while,
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Alaskan natives were like,
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hello,
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this land is still ours?
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They never had actually ceded the land in a treaty or lost
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it in a war.
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Russia just kind of moved in.
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So Alaskan natives claimed what the U .S.
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had purchased wasn't actually the land itself,
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but the right to negotiate for it with them.
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries,
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Alaskan natives declared their right to the land as its original occupants through
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legal assertions called land claims.
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But these were never fully resolved.
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For the most part,
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the U .S.
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didn't force Alaskan natives off the land like they'd done to so many native people in
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the lower 48.
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But that doesn't mean they were treated any better.
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For three years during World War II,
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the U .S.
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forced over 800 Aliou into squalid internment camps,
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where many died.
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I'm going to pause for a moment and let that sink in.
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All over,
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Alaskan natives faced overt discrimination from settlers.
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Businesses commonly posted signs like no natives allowed and
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natives need not apply,
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a practice that wasn't banned until a Tlingit activist,
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Elizabeth Peratrovich,
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campaigned the state to pass an anti -discrimination law in 1945.
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When Alaska finally became the 49th state in 1959,
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the Alaska Statehood Act recognized the natives' claim to land titles they
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already held.
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So that's good.
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But the act also said the state could claim any 104 million
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acres of public land it wanted,
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so long as it was vacant,
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unappropriated,
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and unreserved.
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But since Alaska natives never ceded their lands,
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to say that any land was unappropriated and unreserved was a
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stretch.
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Often, the lands the state called dibs on were traditional hunting and fishing areas
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near native villages.
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Understandably,
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many Alaskan natives felt downright disrespected by these actions.
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So in 1966,
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more than 400 representatives from 17 native organizations formed
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the Alaska Federation of Natives with the goal of filing land claims
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all over the state.
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They pushed for a land freeze,
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demanding no new claims by the state until native land claims were settled,
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and the U .S.
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government agreed.
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Then, in 1971,
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a groundbreaking settlement was reached,
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the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,
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or the ANCSA.
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Alaska Natives agreed to give up their claim of the whole state,
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all 360 million acres.
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return they'd receive a smaller slice 43 .7 million
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acres and 962 .5 million dollars.
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That land and money would be split among a bunch of newly formed corporations
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which Alaskan natives could use to benefit native communities.
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No native nation in the lower 48 had done anything like this.
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It was powerful but the tribes still weren't federally recognized nations
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which matters a lot for issues of sovereignty or the ability to self -govern.
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There's much more on tribal sovereignty in episode two.
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Throughout the 1980s,
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Native Alaskan communities advocated for this recognition in state courts.
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Until finally,
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in 1993,
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the U .S.
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government recognized all Alaskan Native entities,
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meaning all those corporations,
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as officially sovereign governments with the same protections,
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powers,
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and limitations as any other federally recognized Native nation.
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And that's why today,
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a whopping 229 of the 574 federally
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recognized Native nations in the U .S.
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are in Alaska.
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Weird,
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but true.
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Now, let's fly over to Hawaii.
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The story here is kind of the opposite.
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There are no fairly recognized native nations,
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and it might surprise you to learn that many native Hawaiians don't want there to be.
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But to understand why,
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we've got to wrap our heads around their unique relationship with the United States.
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Native Hawaiians,
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who call themselves Kanaka Maoli,
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are the descendants of Polynesian navigators who arrived on the islands more
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than 2 ,000 years ago.
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They developed specialized ways of thriving there.
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like slashing burning and rotating patches of jungle as gardens and
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building canals and terraces that directed water towards their crops and the kanaka
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maoli have nurtured a profound connection to these islands to this day many
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keep relationships with ancestral spirits or omokuwa thought
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to sometimes take the form of plants rocks and animals and they recite
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the kumulipo a creation chant that describes how the universe began from
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an enormous burst of heat giving rise to day and night
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earth and sky,
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male and female,
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and a whole family tree of life.
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But as soon as the first Europeans set foot on the islands
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in 1778,
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more and more Western settlers swept in.
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And in an all too familiar story,
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they brought diseases that wiped out over 80 % of the native population.
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Yes,
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unfortunately,
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you heard that right.
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80%.
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Throughout the 19th century,
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those settlers and their descendants accumulated more influence,
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land, and wealth,
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growing rich off of sugar plantations.
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And as the turn of the century approached,
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they took it to the next level.
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See,
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in 1891,
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Lili Obukalani became the Kingdom of Hawaii's first and last
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queen.
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Her power was limited,
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though, because a few years prior,
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a militia of white businessmen had forced her brother,
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literally at gunpoint,
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to sign away much of it,
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including native voting rights,
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while simultaneously giving voting rights to white land -owning non -citizens.
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Their ultimate goal?
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Make Kauai a U .S.
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territory and reap the profit.
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Liliu Owokalani,
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though, refused to recognize these limitations and worked to restore power to the Kanaka
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Maori.
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But then,
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in 1893,
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members of a secret society invaded the palace,
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backed by over 160 US troops.
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Lili Owokalani,
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fearing war if she didn't comply with their demands,
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gave up her authority.
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While all that was happening,
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white elites had been working to Americanize Hawaii,
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turning the palace into their government's central headquarters,
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requiring English in schools,
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and generally trying to cover up any evidence that the Kanaka Maoli were ever
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sovereign at all.
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In 1898,
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the U .S.
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officially annexed Hawaii,
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claiming it as a U .S.
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territory.
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Congress claimed the Hawaiian government was 100 % on board
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with ceding sovereignty,
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even though over 21 ,000 Kanaka Maoli citizens had
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petitioned against it.
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Over the next 60 years,
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U .S.
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citizens from the mainland moved in droves to Hawaii,
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eventually outnumbering natives.
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And in 1959,
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when the U .S.
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popped the big,
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do you want to become a state question,
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93 % of voters said yes.
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But remember,
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many of those voters were U .S.
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citizens from the mainland,
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not natives.
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And some native scholars and activists argue that the vote didn't follow
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international rules laid out by the United Nations,
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like offering independence as a third option on the ballot.
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Fast forward to 1993,
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100 years after a secret club took over a kingdom,
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the US Congress apologized for how it all went down.
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They acknowledged that the Americans had conspired illegally to take over a lawful
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government, and that the Kanaka Maoli never directly gave up their land
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or their sovereignty.
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Symbolically,
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apologizing was a huge step,
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but legally,
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it didn't change anything.
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In 2009,
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the Supreme Court ruled that acknowledging the state of Hawaii's crooked origin story
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hadn't created any new rights for the Kanaka Maoli or restored any
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claims over their lands.
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Today,
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they still don't have formal federal recognition as a sovereign nation.
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It was all sizzle,
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no steak.
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And the Kanaka Maoli are divided on if they even want federal recognition.
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Those in favor say it would make it easier to address inequality and advocate for native
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interests.
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But those opposed often argue that the Kingdom of Hawaii still exists.
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It was,
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and is,
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illegally occupied.
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Many say that accepting federal recognition would mean giving up the goal of
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becoming a truly independent nation once more.
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So it's a complicated situation.
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Like other Native people in the lower 48,
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both the Kanuka Maoli and Alaskan Natives have faced political marginalization
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and discrimination.
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They've weathered systematic efforts to get rid of their language and
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culture.
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And compared to white Americans,
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they face higher rates of poverty and preventable illness and have more trouble
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accessing health care and education.
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The Kanuka Maui and Alaskan Native's relationship with the U .S.
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have taken very different courses from those of many other Native nations,
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and that's given rise to totally unique legal situations.
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The more we learn about them,
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the better we can understand the diversity of Native American history and Native
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life today.
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In our next episode,
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we're going to talk about Indigenous women's history,
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and I will see you then.
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