Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 – after the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, about 1.8 million acres of the former kingdom land was taken without compensation.

Instead, a local chief was able to use the trading contacts inaugurated by Cook to create an independent Hawaiian monarchy, which survived for over a century until its annexation by the United ...

“This all begins to change with the steel guitar.” In 1893, a group of Americans overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and instilled their own provisional government. As U.S. officials failed to ...

Reese Flores, a Native Hawaiian student at the University of ... nation — 50 years before the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy that preceded Hawaii’s 1898 annexation by the United States.