Effects Of Colonization On The Hawaiian Environments

American Hawaii Hawaii is known for its beautiful beaches, it’s nice year-round weather, and its culture. Thousands of vacationers come to Hawaii each year to get away from the stressful city and relax. But do they know how cruel the Americans were to the natives? Do they know how we corrupted their culture and their religion? Do they know how Hawaii really became a state? Probably not. When most people think of Hawaii, they think of happy Hawaiian babes hula dancing and palm trees swaying in the warm breeze. Hawaii has still held on to many of their traditions although they were invaded by Americans. But you have to go to a museum to see their old way of life. Hawaii is now populated mostly by Americans.

The Great Mahele lasted through 1848-1893. It was known as the distribution of land. King kamehameha the great fought in a war to get land . After winning the war he divided the land between his loyal followers in war by making them chiefs and letting them rule parts of his land. King Kamehameha created the great Mahele. The Mahele is when into 2 parts. 1,000,000 acres known as the crown lands, for his personal use. The other half being 1,500,000 acres known as government land for chiefs and commoners.How did the Mahele affect the Hawaiians socially, economically, and politicaly.

In my opinion, reading 1 (Hawaii: The Land of Many) is more informative and useful for a person who knows nothing about the sugar plantations in Hawaii in the 1800s. I would suggest using reading 1 because it talks about the entire history, as opposed to reading 2 which talks about the shutting down of the plantations today. This reading teaches the reader about the sugar plantations and the life of the laborers that worked on these sugar plantations. Reading 1 states that the sugar industry boomed in the 1800s which caused the need of plantation workers. They had recruits different countries that lived on the plantation. Laborers had to sign a contract saying they would work for a certain amount of time. Plantation supervisors whipped those

The colonization of the Americas began in the year of 1492, when Christopher Columbus and his band of explorers arrived off the coast of the Bahamas. This new “discovery” for Europe would have drastic effects not only on the settlers themselves, but on the natives and their environment. It is without a doubt that the appearance of these explorers placed the Indians on a dangerous trajectory. Now, it is currently understood how the colonization of the American continent brought disease, war and ultimately death for many of the natives. Early exploration, conquest and settlement brought about new economies for the Europeans, new religious freedoms, and knowledge of the world and of exploration, producing great benefits for the colonists. Although the settlers did face risks and sometimes death during their conquest, they undoubtedly benefitted from this expansion. The Indians, however, were dealt a different hand. The culture that they had developed and the immense civilizations that had evolved were ultimately destroyed as the spread of epidemics, constant war, and brutal exploitation brought these prosperous and hospitable peoples to their knees.

Hawaii’s short story had many important events one including the Great Mahele or the great land division. The Mahele was the division of Hawaii’s land that altered the Hawaiian lifestyle permanently never returning. According to Star Advertiser, the Mahele in place in 1848, the land divided into four categories, consisting of land owned by the king, ali’i, land set aside to purchase, and land worked by the maka’ainana. At the time, foreigners living in Hawaii was frequent, as many stayed for the “paradise lifestyle,” but as time went on, possessing land seemed as it should be legal and allowed. In Hawaii, natives believed that the land did not belong to people, but the land belonged to the gods and they thought the foreigners way of thinking was bizarre. However, Kamehameha III had a different perspective on this idea, for he wanted to ensure that no hostile takeovers or wars would break out if the foreigners were being neglected (Borreca). The Mahele did not benefit the Hawaiians because the interaction of foreigners left the Hawaiians with little

The Ancient Hawaiian life was based around the ahupua‘a land management system which is used to maintain human life and protecting the upland resources that extends to the coral reef. Overtime, much of this has changed due to major development and modern technology that were introduced to the Hawaiian Island after the arrival of Captain Cook. The Hawaiians lost their connection to the land by no longer perpetuating the Hawaiian values and the idea of being independent. Furthermore, everyone who lives in Hawai‘i lives in an ahupua‘a. Many of the ahupua‘a original names are being used today, but not many people knows its history about the land they are resided in.

In the mid 1800 there was a boom in sudar crops. It was hard for the Hawaiians to make sugar alone, so they took immigrants from other countries to help the Hawaiians but there was many struggles to in this years of boom.Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800 was difficult. Living conditions in Hawaii were severely poor, working conditions were painful, and racism was treated unfairly.

In 1848, An event called the “Mahele” changed the traditional Hawaiian system of land tenure from communal use to private ownership (Kameeleihiwa 3). Events in the past of Hawaii, like the Mahele of 1848, left a devastating mark in Hawaii’s history; It helped eventually lead to the overthrow of the monarch and still affects today’s problems in Hawaii.

The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was on January 17, 1893 when the government's power fell in the foreigners hands who supported annexation. The Annexation Club focused on overthrowing the Queen and seeking annexation to the United States. This was caused by the McKinley Tariff Act by the United States which the Reciprocity Treaty on tariff that helped protect both United States and Hawaii sugar growers was now removed and the Hawaiians had a huge disadvantage because of the tariffs the Hawaiians need to pay. This was horrible for the foreigners because now that there was no more reciprocity treaty, the Hawaiians had to pay for the tariffs once again. The overthrow was unjustified for the Hawaiians because of John Stevens actions and the Hawaiian League.

Furthermore, “neither missionary work nor burgeoning exports nor the beginnings of foreign investments called for the extensive [force] of political control” (PDF file)over the Hawaiians. Focusing only on the overall goal of reaching Asian lands, regardless of what the native Hawaiian population wanted, the islands became part of the United States and conquering Hawaii was the first of many steps in developing the American

The foreigners took the land without them knowing and traded it with the other foreigners. They sold the land to the other foreigners even though the land want theres. The foreigners made them pay for their own land even though the hawaiians had no money. They also left them with less than one

In the 1820’s Missionaries have been starting to visit Hawaii inspired by Henry Obookiah who the first Hawaiian Missionary. Henry Obookiah was a Hawaiian missionary that told the English about the Hawaiian religion and how it works, and it convinced the English to go and spread their religion. But not everything ended well according to the plan for the Hawaiians. People only notice the negative effects that the missionaries cause the Hawaiians to go through, but they miss the benefits that the missionaries gave the Hawaiians. Although the missionaries have brought negative effects to the Hawaiians, they also have given the Hawaiians some benefits with the new religion, new language, and new technology.

The Hawaiians were further depicted as "thieves" like the rest of the "people in Polynesia," and plagued with the barbaric accusation of committing infanticide. These so called "facts" were enough for the Euro-American forces to send out missionaries to regulate the Hawaiian people and take over their land and all their practices. (Stannard, 381- 417)

When the Hawaiians could not pay for their taxes the foreigners bought their land and used it to make their sugar companies and crops. As they bought more and

From the Hawaiian perspective, the Mahele brought along many impacts that severely crippled the Hawaiian population. The Mahele was put into place due to King Kamehameha III fearing his islands being taken over and foreigners pestering him for land to use for companies and promote their way of thinking. Kamehameha had known that the British took over Tahiti, and did not want Hawaii taken over like that. According to Cachola of Land Ownership, foreigners bugged him all the time for land and he was afraid they would revolt. He tried to create leases and stop land from being sold, but he was under a lot of pressure. Kamehameha eventually gave in and created the Mahele which gave foreigners the land they wanted and took land from Hawaiians. The Mahele was not beneficial to the Hawaiians because less that 1% of Hawaiians had land and many Hawaiians couldn’t interact with each other.