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Princess Ka'iulani

Princess Ka’iulani

Princess Ka’iulani was the first half Hawaiian and half foreign, Scottish, direct heir to the Hawaiian throne. Her uncle, King Kalakaua, had nine other siblings that all died or remained childless, leaving no direct heir to the throne until his sister Likelike had a child with her Scottish husband, Archie Cleghorn. Ka’iulani was very important to Hawaiians since her birth signified continuation of the Kalakaua dynasty and gave the people a new high ali’i to follow one day (17). The natives were already respectful of Ka’iulani because she was an ali’i and “they believed that ali’i, their ruling class, were descended from the gods. Because of this, the ali’i had much ...

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disliked based on their care for the people. Prejudice was still present within the ali’i, and it was for women. Ali’i women “were not allowed to eat at the same tables or from the same bowls as men” (11). The women were even forbidden to eat certain fruits, but despite these setbacks they could still achieve immense political power. Because the ali’i were required to care for their people, they gave their people land, and this is why land ownership is vague to natives.
The biggest issue that arose because of land ownership was voting rights. It was almost like what was read in Through Women’s Eyes, that only men could vote because only men owned land, but in this case, only landowners could vote to approve a new constitution. This caused problems because not many natives actually owned land or knew that they did because they saw their land as provided to them by the ali’i. A lot of the natives ended up homeless unknowingly because, “Native Hawaiians…had no understanding of how a ...

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Added: 1/14/2013 06:04:46 PM
Submitted By: livelyb10
Category: Biographies
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