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Copyedited and restructured this. Feedback encouraged. Comment: The history seems to end with statehood, save for a brief discussion of sovereignty, renaissance, etc. Love to see someone pick up on things such as the rise of tourism, the end of sugar and pineapple cultivation, GMOs, Hawaii's most famous export (BHO), etc. HNY! Lfstevens (talk) 04:04, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I took another run through this. Feedback encouraged (shouting into the void). Same comments. Lfstevens (talk) 19:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why No Mention of Hawaii Independence Day?

According to the hitherto uncategorised Anglo-Franco Proclamation article, this would have been 28 November, beginning with 1843. But according to this article, the British were taking over Hawaii in the same year. Does this mean that the Brits changed their minds in December, or that they took over early in 1843 and then had second thoughts? Or something else?

And, by the way Rjensen, although I would never defend the way in which Newfoundland was added to Canada — or most other acts of government for that matter — the place hadn't been a self-ruling country for over 70 years as of 1949. The people there were vulnerable to forces emanating from various directions. SewerCat (talk) 20:31, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Newfoundland was an independent self governing dominion like Australia and Canada before 1933, when it voluntarily reverted to a colony ruled from London. Rjensen (talk) 21:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hawaiians celebrated Independence Day (Hawaii) in recognition of that document you are linking and Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaii) for the end of the Paulet Affair (1843). The occupation was not supported by the British government and was a rogue effort on the part of Paulet. One celebrates the international recognition and another celebrated the restoration of sovereignty following the occupation. Lots of things are not mentioned or are erroneously oversimplified here (such as the claim the Mahele was a response to the occupation when it occurred five years after) as a matter of fact.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, KAVEBEAR, for clarifying. To be honest though, I'm more concerned that this article might be misleading for other readers. The materials you mention should be linked in. I'm obviously not the one to do it. SewerCat (talk) 13:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Who elevated Hākau?

Section Liloa says:

Līloa had two sons; his firstborn Hākau from his wife Pinea, (his mother's sister), and his second son, ʻUmi a Līloa from his lesser ranking wife, Akahi a Kuleana. Upon his death, elevated Hākau as ruler and delegated religious authority to ʻUmi.

Is no subject in second sentence. Who elevated Hākau? I assume it wasn't the dead Līloa, so who was it? -- Thnidu (talk) 22:42, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

attack on pearl harbor and "Hawaiians"

Fast question. when it says Hawaiians on the pearl Harbor paragraph does it mean those from hawai'i or Kanaka maoli (Native hawaiians)? 808Poiboy (talk) 22:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

it refers to the one regiment, where all the soldiers were of Japanese descent. Rjensen (talk) 22:18, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

aah ok. that shouldn't say "Hawaiians" then. it should say Hawai'i born Japanese. Hawaiian is an ethnicity that's why. I'm Hawaiian and that part confused me. thanks. I don't want to try and edit that because I just started and I don't want to mess up anything that won't be good 808Poiboy (talk) 22:25, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge first paragraph and first sentence of next paragraph?

Propose merger of the first two sentences of this article to something like: " The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement by polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD".

I suggest this for two reasons:

a) to logically separate the polynesian discovery and settlement from the next paragraph about european contact

b) this will fix an issue with the History section of the article Hawaiian Islands which currently transcludes paragraphs from Discovery and settlement of Hawaii and from this article thus its two first paragraphs repeat themselves a bit.

Comments? Jp2207 (talk) 04:17, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]