Hawaiian Apology Resolution

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When the Hawaiian islands was overthrown, the united states made an Apology Resolution that states that the Hawaiian islands were its own independent territory owned by nobody except King Kamehameha the Great. Who had reunited the island chain. Also this resolution states that Queen Liliuokalani” issued statements yielding her authority to the united states government rather than the provisional government”. I think that if the united states hadn't found the Hawaiian islands, we wouldn't be fighting for justice and judgment. In the “Apology Resolution” in paragraphs 1 it states”prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in 1778, the native Hawaiian people lived in a highly organized, self sufficient, substantial social system based on communal

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