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And the Hawaiian Kingdom existed for less than 100 years. It was formed by force when the other islands in the chain were conquered by the big island.
by tssva 3y ago
And the Hawaiian Kingdom existed for less than 100 years. It was formed by force when the other islands in the chain were conquered by the big island.
- ceejayoz 3y agoYou can see how that's not quite the same thing, right?
- voisin 3y agoI don’t?
- ceejayoz 3y agoLow-grade inter-tribal conflict over leadership, versus an external superpower annexing and then sending your kids into boarding schools thousands of miles away(https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-confronts-cultural-genocide-native-american-boarding-school-probe-2022-05-18/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-confronts-cultur...), banning your entire language for four generations (https://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/TeachingAndLearning/StudentLearning/HawaiianEducation/Pages/History-of-the-Hawaiian-Education-program.aspx https://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/TeachingAndLearning/Stud...), and wiping out 84% of your population (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-ha...) are not remotely in the same realm.