Summer is ending=(

Well I haven't wrote for about 2 months SO sorry. I've been having way too much fun....Well throughout this summer I've been kept very busy. I've had volleyball everyday of this summer.... met a super cute boy named Brandon... at the most AHHHH~Mazing place ever... THE HOUSE OF SPEED!... It's an amazing place to pump up your game in any type of sports...I've gone to Eltches which is ahhhhh-mazing...I also went to The midnight premiere of ECLIPSE and i loved it...TEAM JACOB ALL THE WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY...hahahaha...The highlight of my summer had to be going to the JUSTIN DREW BIEBER CONCERT WHICH WAS LIKE THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN MY LIFETIME....I LIKE ABSOLUTELY FEEL IN LOVE WITH JUSTIN AT THAT CONCERT...WELL I've told you the best parts of my summer SO i better got to sleep....
oh yeah schools is going to start in one week.....
SUCKISH!
see ya,
lyric

Summertime!

Summer is here...FINALLY! Having a great start to the summer! Yesterday we had a block party for my G'ma and my G'pa's neighborhood. It was awesome even though I was thrown in a pool! There was fun games and a jumping castle...sooo much fun! More on the agenda this summer: well I have a lot of things that involve volleyball and a lot of family fun. Not much...but I should stay occupied.
Will Write Later....
Lyric

After The Project!

So I did great on my project! But I still want to write this blog, but it won't be about the Hawaiian Monarchy anymore. I want to start by telling you all about myself.
Well, I was born in Hawaii on the island of Maui! When I was about 1 and a half I was on an airplane flying to Dillon, Montana. I lived in Dillon for about 8 years. I still keep in contact with most of my friends, but mostly my best friend Holly Andersen who is the best cowgirl in the world. After 8 years of Big Sky Montana ,my family and I moved to Aurora, Colorado. I went to Cimarron Elementary school for my 4Th and 5Th grade years and I had the best teachers. For my 6th,7th, and my upcoming 8th grade year. In my 6th and part of my 7th grade year I experienced my 1st heartbreak. But, thats another story. My 3 biggest hobbies are Volleyball, playing the piano, and singing. I am very affectionate and very outgoing. When your reading this blog I hope you enjoy all of my experiences!

Enjoy my lifestories,
Lyric

References

Source type: Book
Author: Herb Kawainui Kane
Title of source: Ancient Hawai’i
Publishing/Last Update date: 1997
Publishing compnay: The Kawainui Press
City of Publishing: Captain Cook, Hawai’i

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Web Address: http://hawaii.gov/gov/washington_place/washington_place/Queen


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Hawai'i Aloha

Hawai'i Aloha was written many years ago by the request of a Hawaiian king. This song unites the Hawaiian people. The song speaks of one's love for Hawai'i. It is sung at many occasions. It is tradition for everyone to hold hands, form a circle, and sway as they sing this song. Towards the end of the song, everyone raises their hands over their heads. During this song, the Hawaiian people are one.

Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono

Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono
The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness

The song "Hawai'i '78" was written by Micky Ioane , Abe Keala, David Kawika Crowley. This song has special meaning to the Hawaiian people because it speaks of the land that was taken away.



Hawaii '78 Lyrics

Ua mau, ke ea o ka 'aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka 'aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
If just for a day our king and queen
Would visit all these islands and saw everything
How would they feel about the changes of our land
Could you just imagine if they were around
And saw highways on their sacred grounds
How would they feel about this modern city life
Tears would come from each others eyes
As they would stop to realize
That our people are in great great danger now
How, would they feel, could their smiles be content, then cry
Chorus:
Cry for the gods, cry for the people
Cry for the land that was taken away
And then yet you'll find, Hawai'i
Could you just imagine if they came back
And saw traffic lights and railroad tracks
How would they feel about this modern city life
Tears would come from each others eyes
As they would stop to realize
That our land is in great great danger now
All the fighting that the king had done
To conquer all these islands now these condominiums
How would he feel if he saw Hawai'i nei
How, would he feel, would his smile be content, then cry
Chorus
Ua mau, ke ea o ka 'aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka 'aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i

Photos

Queen Lili'uokalani Statue ~ Honolulu, Hawai'i


Iolani Palace ~ Honolulu, Hawai'i

Aloha 'Oe

Queen Lili'uokalani was a composer of many songs. The Queen originally wrote this as a love song. After the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy, this became her farewell song to all that was lost.



Aloha 'Oe
Words, music and translation by Queen Lili`uokalani

Ha`aheo ka ua i nâ pali
Ke nihi a`ela i ka nahele
E hahai (uhai) ana paha i ka liko
Pua `âhihi lehua o uka
Proudly swept the rain by the cliffs
As it glided through the trees
Still following ever the bud
The `ahihi lehua of the vale

Hui:
Aloha`oe, aloha`oe
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
One fond embrace,
A ho`i a`e au
Until we meet again
Chorus:
Farewell to you, farewell to you
The charming one who dwells in the shaded bowers
One fond embrace,
'Ere I depart
Until we meet again

`O ka hali`a aloha i hiki mai
Ke hone a`e nei i
Ku`u manawa
`O `oe nô ka`u ipo aloha
A loko e hana nei
Sweet memories come back to me
Bringing fresh remembrances
Of the past
Dearest one, yes, you are mine own
From you, true love shall never depart

Maopopo ku`u `ike i ka nani
Nâ pua rose o Maunawili
I laila hia`ia nâ manu
Miki`ala i ka nani o ka lipo
I have seen and watched your loveliness
The sweet rose of Maunawili
And 'tis there the birds of love dwell
And sip the honey from your lips

The Queen's Protest

This is a copy of Queen Lili'uokalani's protest. I found the copy from this website.

http://www.freehawaii.org/liliuoprotest.html


Official Protest to the Treaty of Annexation



To Be Presented by Lili`uokalani in Washington D.C.

June 17, 1897

I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, by the will of God named heir apparent on the tenth day of April, A.D. 1877, and by the grace of God Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the seventeenth day of January, A.D. 1893, do hereby protest against the ratification of a certain treaty, which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch, Thurston, and Kinney, purporting to cede those Islands to the territory and dominion of the United States. I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawaii, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown, and, finally, an act of gross injustice to me.

Because the official protests made by me on the seventeenth day of January, 1893, to the so-called Provisional Government was signed by me, and received by said government with the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of America for arbitration.

Because that protest and my communications to the United States Government immediately thereafter expressly declare that I yielded my authority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed, and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power.

Because the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and an envoy commissioned by them reported in official documents that my government was unlawfully coerced by the forces, diplomatic and naval, of the United States; that I was at the date of their investigations the constitutional ruler of my people.

Because neither the above-named commission nor the government which sends it has ever received any such authority from the registered voters of Hawaii, but derives its assumed powers from the so-called committee of public safety, organized on or about the seventeenth day of January, 1893, said committee being composed largely of persons claiming American citizenship, and not one single Hawaiian was a member thereof, or in any way participated in the demonstration leading to its existence.

Because my people, about forty thousand in number, have in no way been consulted by those, three thousand in number, who claim the right to destroy the independence of Hawaii. My people constitute four-fifths of the legally qualified voters of Hawaii, and excluding those imported for the demands of labor, about the same proportion of the inhabitants.

Because said treaty ignores, not only the civic rights of my people, but, further, the hereditary property of their chiefs. Of the 4,000,000 acres composing the territory said treaty offers to annex, 1,000,000 or 915,000 acres has in no way been heretofore recognized as other than the private property of the constitutional monarch, subject to a control in now way differing from other items of a private estate.

Because it is proposed by said treaty to confiscate said property, technically called the crown lands, those legally entitled thereto, either now or in succession, receiving no consideration whatever for estates, their title to which has been always undisputed, and which is legitimately in my name at this date.

Because said treaty ignores, not only all professions of perpetual amity and good faith made by the United States in former treaties with the sovereigns representing the Hawaiian people, but all treaties made by those sovereigns with other and friendly powers, and it is thereby in violation of international law.

Because, by treating with the parties claiming at this time the right to cede said territory of Hawaii, the Government of the United States receives such territory from the hands of those whom its own magistrates (legally elected by the people of the United States, and in office in 1893) pronounced fraudulently in power and unconstitutionally ruling Hawaii.

Therefore I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, do hereby call upon the President of that nation, to whom alone I yielded my property and my authority, to withdraw said treaty (ceding said Islands) from further consideration. I ask the honorable Senate of the United States to decline to ratify said treaty, and I implore the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity as may be in accord with the principles of their fathers, and to the Almighty Ruler of the universe, to him who judgeth righteously, I commit my cause.

Done at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this seventeenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.



Liliuokalani



Joseph Heleluhe }

Wokeki Heleluhe } Witnesses to Signature.

Julius A. Palmer }

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1838-1917)

This website provides a copy of the book written by Queen Lili'uokalani. The book was published in 1898 after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/liliuokalani/hawaii/hawaii.html

Queen Lili'uokalani

Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha was born in Honolulu on September 2, 1838. As a young girl, she attended The Royal School and became fluent in English. Her brother King David Kalakau'a was the last king of Hawai'i. When King Kalakaua died, Lydia Lili'u inherited the throne to Hawai'i. In January 1891, with her new name, Lili'uokalani was declared the Queen of Hawai'i. When King Kalakau'a was in charge, he was forced to create a new constitution which limited the power of the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian monarchy. Queen Lili'uokalani wanted to write a new constitution restoring power and rights to the Hawaiian monarchy and the Hawaiian people. Sugar planters, pineapple planters, businessmen, and other Americans were afraid of the Queen's new constitution. The businessmen wanted to make money and thought the new constitution would make them lose money so they made plans to overthrow the Queen and the Hawaiian monarchy. In 1893, the businessmen and U.S. troops took over the palace and forced the Queen to give up her throne. Queen Lili'uokalani gave up her throne to protect her people for she was afraid for her people. Queen Lili'uokalani did not want her people to die so she surrendered her throne to the United States. Sanford Dole and other American businessmen formed a new government and hoped the United States would take over Hawai'i. The Queen asked the United States President Cleveland for his help to restore her monarchy. The President agreed that the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy was wrong but had Congress make a decision on reinstating the Hawaiian monarchy. Both Congress and the President did not make a decision. Sanford Dole formed the Republic of Hawai'i and became its president. Many Hawaiians fought to restore the Hawaiian monarchy. In January 1895, Queen Lili'uokalani was arrested because a search team found hidden weapons in her home. She was imprisoned in the Iolani Palace. While in prison, she was given a document to give up her power formally. She believed that if she didn't sign it, her people would be killed. To protect her people, she signed the document formally giving up her power. The Queen was put on trial and was humiliated and taunted but she never lost her dignity. After being in prison for over a year, the Queen was finally free. However, she was never given back her title, power or monarchy. Hawai'i became a part of the United States. Queen Lili'uokalani died in 1917 at 79 years old. She fought for justice for her people and for the power to be given back to the Hawaiian people. When she died, her plea for justice was still unanswered.

Hawai'i

Hawai'i was first discovered by a group of Polynesians thousands of years ago. Not much is known of the first discoverers. All of their traditions were lost when they were conquered by chiefs from Tahitian islands. The Hawaiian culture, traditions, and social classes are formed. King Kamehameha was the only king to unite the entire island chain and formed the Hawaiian Monarchy. His descendants ruled the Hawaiian people.

Hawaiian Born

I was born in Hawai'i, on the island of Maui. My parents are both native Hawaiians. When I was 18 months old, my parents and I moved away to Montana so my parents could attend college. Even though we lived away from Hawai'i, my parents made sure we visited Hawai'i often and that I learned about my Hawaiian culture. I am very proud to be Hawaiian and my culture is very important to me.

Everything about the Hawaiian culture is interesting to me. I enjoy learning about the language, the legends, the people, the music, the Hula, the food, and the history. My parents are always telling stories of their childhood in Hawai'i and the stories are amazing and intriguing. My one wish would be to grow up in Hawai'i and learn about my culture directly.

My area of importance is Queen Lili'uokalani and the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. Queen Lili'uokalani was the last monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She was a woman who was devoted to the Hawaiian people, their land and their rights. I admire Queen Lili'uokalani for she dedicated her life to what she believed in.