Aloha everyone! In this episode we travel to the beautiful paradise in the middle of the Pacific know as the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii is one of the few states in these United States that can have the privilege of being their own independent nation. So today's question: why are these islands no longer independent?

Shownotes:

• Episode photo is of the US Sailors and Marines from the USS Boston during the 1893 coup which deposed the monarch.
• Good books on the subject:
• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Queen Lili'uokalani
• The Morgan Report: https://books.google.com/books?id=tBkiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA363#v=onepage&q&f=false
• The Blount Report: https://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/blount.php
• https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/raising-the-united-states-flag/
• https://bulletin.punahou.edu/ending-the-kapu/
• https://talesofhawaii.net/2020/10/20/kapu-system-of-traditional-hawaiian-religious-practice/
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Hawaii
• chrome-extension://bdfcnmeidppjeaggnmidamkiddifkdib/viewer.html?file=https://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/reb/real_ed/re_ed/ce_prelic/land_in_hawaii.pdf
• https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-cook-killed-in-hawaii
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds