Describes the process by which Hawai?i was annexed to the United States in 1898. The treaty of annexation was defeated when a petition with more than 37,000 signatures protesting it was presented to Congress. Expansionists were successful in passing a joint resolution of annexation but the constitutional authority for that action is questioned.

We Are Who We Were: From Resistance to Affirmation

Na Maka o ka Aina

1998

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