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This page needs more information about native Hawaiians and the Statehood decision.

Who was on the "Hawaii Statehood Commission"? How was the decision made? (Lorrin Thurston was the chairman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Advertiser)

Did native Hawaiians have a voice in the statehood decision? There seems to be no evidence of a public referendum on the 1959 decision, only a 'approval' vote after the decision was made.

There is mention of a plebiscite in 1940 as well as some controversy about US soldiers and US citizens being allowed to vote in that decision. In addition, in the 1940 plebiscite the voters were not given the option of choosing to be an independent nation. The territory was redefining its status, and according to Article 73 of the UN Charter the voters should have been given three options: statehood, territorial status, or independence. (Martin)

It is especially important to address the sentiment of the native Hawaiians when discussing the statehood decision. On the NARA site there is a mention of petitions and letters from Hawaiians. And, according to other sites, there is strong evidence that native Hawaiians did not want statehood at all.

In 1897 the annexation of Hawai'i (as a territory of the US) was protested by native Hawaiians in the form of the "Petition against the Annexation of Hawaii Submitted to the U.S. Senate in 1897 by the Hawaiian Patriotic League and the Hawaiian Islands". There are 21,169 signatures of Hawaiians on this petition, from all of the islands -- this was more than half of the Hawaiian population at that time. The petition can be viewed on microfilm at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Sources: NARA http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/1999/nr99-103.html Honolulu Star Bulletin http://starbulletin.com/1999/08/10/news/story8.html http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/18/news/story1.html

HCR180 http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2002/Bills/HCR180_.htm

Controversy over vote http://hawaiiankingdom.info/C1126750129/E1496000730/

Alexandria Martin http://www.fiu.edu/~harveyb/hawaiianstatehood1.html

http://aurora.wells.edu/~fweinberg/aloha.htm

Susurrus 07:25, 26 September 2005 (UTC)sshawhan