tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176484070660608180.post346898549243748261..comments2023-10-05T02:37:20.278-10:00Comments on Coffee Quill: Steal-hood rather than Statehood? Fifty years ago yesterday HI became a stateSabrina Favorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14303054417674236268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176484070660608180.post-36431661439666232392009-08-24T11:15:25.417-10:002009-08-24T11:15:25.417-10:00Yeah, Dole and the rest. I'm not sure how they...Yeah, Dole and the rest. I'm not sure how they could go back to being a sovereign nation now, though I can't help but feel there are compromises that could be made between Native Hawaiians and the government, but aren't, for a variety of reasons.<br /><br />It is interesting to think about how, outside of the military (I didn't really have any HI edu in the schools on military bases) there were those lessons, but they were pretty short and not often. Even now, one semester out of eight devoted to HI history in a HI high school? But that's still more than a student gets on the mainland.Sabrina Favorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303054417674236268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176484070660608180.post-82995157994432001162009-08-23T07:09:29.897-10:002009-08-23T07:09:29.897-10:00I was stationed in Hawaii in the 80s while in the ...I was stationed in Hawaii in the 80s while in the Army, and I had never heard, growing up on the mainland, the story of how the US farmers in Hawaii basically shanghaied it and made it a protectorate of the US without their consent (because they had the guns and money and connections.) It is a sad tale repeated over and over throughout the globe, and I don't blame native Hawaiians for being angry about it. <br /><br />Thing is, times have moved on, and there really isn't going back without a lot of difficulty. Which makes for a lot of grumbling and an impasse.writtenwyrddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02280711822302493122noreply@blogger.com