Download or read book The American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom written by David Keanu Sai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 17th 2007, a bill was re-introduced by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaiʻi) to provide a process of granting tribal sovereignty to Native Hawaiians as the indigenous people of Hawaiʻi, a similar status afforded Native American tribes on the continental United States. The difference, however, is that Native Hawaiians are citizens of an internationally recognized sovereign, but occupied State, whereas Native Americans are a dependent nation within the sovereign State of the United States. Great Britain and France were the first to recognize Hawaiʻi's sovereignty on November 28th 1843 by joint proclamation, and the United States followed on July 6th 1844 by letter of United States Secretary of State John C. Calhoun. This dissertation reframes the legal status of the Hawaiian Islands by employing legal and political theories that seek to explain Hawaiian modernity and international relations since the 19th century to the present. As an alternative to the view of U.S. sovereignty exercised by virtue of the plenary power of Congress over indigenous peoples, this dissertation challenges the core assumptions about the history of law and politics in the Hawaiian Islands by providing a legal analysis of Hawaiian sovereignty under international law that clearly explicates Hawaiʻi's occupation by the United States since the Spanish American War. In terms of law, this study looks at the origin and development of the Hawaiian kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, the events that led to the illegal overthrow of its government, the prolonged occupation of its territory, and a strategy to impel the United States to comply with the international laws of occupation with the ultimate goal of ending the prolonged occupation.