The Mahele: A Brief Summary

The Great Mahele was an act proposed in 1848 allowing Hawaiian land to be privately owned, and the rest redistributed. The occurrence of this event not only affected Hawaiians back then, but still to this day impacts them. The King continued to divide land for the government and maka’ainana could get land for active labor. The king also shared his land between himself and 245 more ali’i; his land- “Crown Lands” and ali’i- “Konohiki Lands” (Mahele Notes). The Mahele of 1848 was a land division separated into 4 different categories: land belonged to the king, land belonged to the ali’i or chiefs, land that could be purchased by the foreigners who lived in Hawaii, and land worked by the commoners or maka’ainana. The Mahele was unjustified because

The Great Mahele was a land division made by King Kamehameha III because he did not want to wage into a war. The Great Mahele allows the King, ali’i or chiefs, foreigners, and the makaainana to equally own land. However, the Hawaiians needed to pay taxes for their land, but because they could not pay their taxes their land was auctioned off. Afterwards, those with money (foreigners) was able to buy the land (Borreca). The Mahele did not benefit the Hawaiians because the Hawaiians did not get much of the land they had taken care of and foreigners had broken laws for the Hawaiians’ land.

The Great Mahele was a land redistribution by Kamehameha III because when the foreigners that came, they wanted the land, but Kamehameha III also wanted to give his people land into three even thirds (Cachola). The Great Mahele was unjustified because three main reasons like Hawaiians not getting the land, Hawaiians not understanding the system, and people started to only care for their own.

On January 27, 1848, the Mahele was created. The word Mahele is Hawaiian and means “land division” because when the foreigners came, the Hawaiian Islands were divided into thirds. This was divided into the king’s section, chief’s section, and maka’ainana’s section. The Mahele was created because King Kamehameha III wanted to protect the land and its people. Kamehameha III was worried about the foreigners taking over, since France took over the Tahiti (Borreca). The Mahele was unjustified because the government betrayed some of the Hawaiians, the price of the land was too high, and lastly many children and adults suffered.

The Mahele was unjustified time because they took their land from the Hawaiians and made them pay for it, . The Mahele started in 1848 and the hawaiian government was overthrown in 1893. Foreigners thought that Hawaiians would give up their lazy ways if they owned land. The foreigners took the Hawaiians land without them knowing. The Mahele was unjustified because they had no food, they took the land without them knowing, and they only talked english.

On January 27, 1848, King Kamehameha created The Mahele to protect Hawaiians from foreigners taking over land. During the Mahele, the ali’i, maka’ainana, and the king had 33% of land but over time, it has changed. The Mahele happened because the foreigners wanted to gain control of the land but King Kamehameha III wanted the Hawaiians to have land, too. Their solution was that they made the Mahele to prevent foreigners from gaining control of the land (Cachola). The Mahele was unjustified because it gave Hawaiians only 1% of land when they should’ve had 33%, the government made the land prices too high, and the maka’ainana barely had any resources ever since the foreigners started to arrive.

The Great Mahele started in 1848 because Kamehameha the III knew that the foreigners wanted to gain land, so they would possibly use force to get land. However, he also knew that the Hawaiians needed land and he didn't want the Hawaiians to lose everything because the French had already taken Tahiti by force. So Kamehameha III created the Mahele also known as the land divisions. He divided the land into four categories: land belonging to the king, land belonging to the ali’i, foreigners, and maka’ainana (Borreca). The Mahale was unjustified because laws were broken, Hawaiians had a lack of resources, and they had terrible communication.

This had a big impact on the Hawaiians because this allowed the foreigners to buy land. Even though the Mahele was to be split a fair amount among all the people living on the islands, that did not work out for the foreigners. The Mahele allowed the foreigners to come to Hawai’i and claim Hawaiians lands, but instead the foreigners decided to buy almost completely all the lands due to the new idea of King Kamehameha III’s royal advisors idea of land ownership. When the foreigners claimed and bought the land, it messed everything up for the Hawaiians such as available

In 1848, a great land revolution called the Great Mahele came to Hawaii. Foreigners thought that if commoners owned their own land that the commoners would give up their lazy ways. Foreigners saw land division to bring tough works 151 years ago (Borreca). Foreigners wanted land to make sugar since they wanted to make money so, King Kamehameha III wanted to divide the land equally to everyone. The Mahele of 1848 was unjustified since Hawaiians had no money, children were eating raw food, and their land was sold to foreigners before they could even buy it.

In the 1800’s around 300,000 Hawaiians lived there as the first europeans too. what they called the great king when the place waited for very few of foreigners placed food on the shore. It was said that it happened when the Hawaiian Islands were united as one under the King’s rules. In the 1900’s In the earlier communities in Kahuku the beautiful land brung many different people like Asians, Europeans, and americans came to enjoy the beauty of the place.

In the beginning, Hawaii was unknown to any humans. Polynesians eventually came across its islands, and decided to make it their home. In the early days, each island was ruled by a chief, and many times the islands were in conflict with each other. Centuries like this passed, but then "in 1782, [Queen Lili'uokalani's] cousin Kamehameha set out to conquer and unite the islands". Thirteen years later, in 1795, Kamehameha

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.

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 land is supposed to be for the people of Hawaii, but when the foreigners came they took all the land from Hawaiians. The Hawaiians couldn't take the land again because they didn't have enough money to pay the taxes, so the government took the land away. “The Resident Alien Act of 1850, foreigners could buy land, land is owned, can be sold, passed on to heirs (Menton Tamura).” in that statement it said “can be sold”, so that means that the land that they earned could be auctioned off.

Before long, after the death of Ka’ahumanu, who had helped these foreigners gain a foot hold in Hawaii, Kamehameha III, the next chief in line, had signed a constitution which allowed Hawaiian-speaking whites to manipulate the young king and make ground towards seizing Hawaii. “With [the 64 page constitution], the white Hawaiian-speaking advisors of Kamehameha III took the first legal step to gain control of Hawaiian land” (“The Conquest of Hawaii, 2). After this fatal error of Kamehamedha II, whaling began to become prominent in Hawaii. With the non-native whales came whalers who used local native Hawaiian women as sexual pawns. With sickness, prostitution, and poverty at a high, Hawaii was in a terrible