Surveying the MaheleMany themes of modern Hawaiian history have their antecedents in a single historic episodethe mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli, or Kamehameha III, abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure in favor of the Western concept of private owner ship of property, an event second only to the arrival of the Europeans in its impact on Hawaii. In the matter of a few years, Hawaii changed from a society in which the alii aimoku, or king, served as steward of the

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this group overthrew the Queen in January 1893

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The publication features the NSCDA’s collection of historic places

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