 Giving Thanks for Lā Kuʻokoʻa… This year, 2022, is the 179th anniversary of an historic moment… November 28, 1843 was the day the United Kingdom (Great Britain) and the Kingdom of France jointly proclaimed their recognition of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign nation -- equal in status with the major powers of the world. In 1843 King Kamehameha III declared November 28 as Lā Kuʻokoʻa, Hawaiʻi Independence Day, a national holiday to be celebrated throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom. For 50 years, Lā Kuʻokoʻa and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) were enthusiasticaly celebrated as the prime national holidays. But in 1894, the self-proclaimed “Republic of Hawaii” adopted the American “Thanksgiving Day” to be celebrated instead of Lā Kuʻokoʻa as part of a deliberate, denationalizing program to erase any celebration of Hawaiʻi as a sovereign, independent country. It almost worked. But about 30 years ago, Uncle Kekuni Blaisdell and a few Hawaiʻi kiaʻi began to remind us and rekindle awareness of our great legacy as an enlightened, independent Hawaiian nation. Today, Lā Kuʻokoʻa and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea are proudly celebrated throughout Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina... and in other places around the world where Hawaiians live. You can help to educate others about Lā Kuʻokoʻa. As you gather with ‘ohana and friends for Thanksgiving this year, remember to give thanks for Lā Kuʻokoʻa! Share with your ʻohana this amazing historic achievement of King Kamehameha III and the emissaries he sent on this mission to the opposite side of the globe... Eō! The Story of Lā Kuʻokoʻa Approaching the mid-Nineteenth Century, European countries were continuing their centuries-long habit of colonizing lands of native peoples. Pacific Island nations were being swallowed whole by European colonial powers. King Kamehameha III, seeing this trend sought to prevent this from happening to his island Kingdom. Having declared his Kingdom as a Christian nation in the early days of his reign; with the vast majority of his people embracing Christianity, the King, in 1839, issued a Hawaiian Declaration of Rights; and in 1840, enacted a Constitution for the Hawaiian Islands, balancing Biblical truths and democratic principles of liberty, along with Hawaiian values of aloha ʻāina and mālama pono, as the basis for the governance of the Hawaiian Islands. Thus, Hawaiʻi could not be regared as a heathen nation and was, therefore, immune to colonization under the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery”. To ensure against colonial ambitions by European powers, King Kamehameha III sent three trusted envoys, Timoteo Haʻalilio, William Richards (Hawaiian subjects) and Sir George Simpson (a British subject) on a mission to America and Europe for the purpose of securing recognition of Hawaii’s sovereignty by the three most powerful nations on Earth, Great Britain, France and the United States. Led by Haʻalilio, the envoys succeeded! In a formal proclamation issued on November 28, 1843 at the Court of London, representatives of the crowns of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of France signed a joint proclamation recognizing the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign nation. The United States followed suit several months later. These acts of recognition meant the Hawaiian Kingdom was accepted, and would be henceforth regarded as, an equal sovereign by the three most prominent members of the exclusive club of sovereign nations, known as “the family of nations.” The Hawaiian Kingdom was able to pry open the door to “the family of nations,” not only for the Hawaiian Kingdom to enter, but for others to follow a century later. The good news is that We, the people — the aloha ʻāina — by remembering this day, are the living proof that the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom that was recognized 179 years ago still exists! And as the lāhui stands up (Kūʻe) here on our ʻāina, proclaiming we still exist, we are blazing a way for liberation of other nations in captivity. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National
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 November 12, 2022
International wrongful act by the UN… In 1946, the newly formed United Nations decided to identify peoples and nations that had not yet “attained a full measure of self-government” and to assist them in attaining self-government — in other words, to undergo decolonization. UN Members identified and submitted their colonies, possessions, and occupied territories — about 100 of them — to the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (NSGT). The United States put Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Hawaii on the list. But Hawaii didn’t belong there. By 1946, the Hawaiian Kingdom had already “attained a full measure of self-government” over 100 years before! The Hawaiian Kingdom was a formally recognized self-governing sovereign State, a subject of international law under bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties with dozens of sovereign States, including five treaties with the United States. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a member of the Universal Postal Union; and had 137 embassies and consulates in 26 countries around the world! The Hawaiian Kingdom was undeniably a country that had already “attained a full measure of self-government” and had done so over 100 years prior to the birth of the United Nations itself. The Hawaiian Islands did not belong on the decolonization list. The United States never lawfully acquired or extinguished the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Therefore, the US submission of Hawaii to the UN decolonization list was an act of fraud. And, inscribing Hawaii to the NSGT list in contradiction to Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defining a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and against General Assembly Resolution 66, constitutes an international wrongful act by the United Nations. That means the UN is complicit in the ongoing suppression of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign State; the destruction of Hawaiian nationality; the forced imposition of U.S. citizenship; the displacement and impoverishment of the Hawaiian people; the pillaging of lands and resources; the infliction of foreign economic, social and cultural systems; and turning a peaceful, neutral country into a menacing U.S. war machine, placing the people of Hawaii in imminent danger of annihilation by enemies of the U.S. The Hawaiian Kingdom calls upon the United Nations, its member States, and the international community to stop supporting the United States’ illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and to assist in the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Islands as a sovereign, independent, peaceful, neutral State, so we can normalize and resume proper international relations among the nations. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 November 2022 from H.E. Leon Kaulahao Siu Hawaiian Kingdom [email protected] Prof.Dr. (h.c) Mehmet Şükrü Güzel Center for Peace and Reconciliation Studies [email protected] An international wrongful act of the United Nations against Hawaii Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a Non-Self-Governing Trerritory as a Territory “whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government.” In 1946, several United Nations Member States identified Territories under their administration that were notself-governing and placed them on a United Nationslist under General Assembly Resolution 66 for the purpose of decolonization. The United States added “Hawaii” (The Hawaiian Islands) to the UN list as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. This was done despite the fact that “Hawaii” was not a U.S. territory, but an existing sovereign state under usurpation and occupation by the United States. By 1946, “Hawaii” (The Hawaiian Islands) had already existed as a self-governing sovereign State for over 100 years. The Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands was formally recognized (by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of France in 1843, and by the United States in 1844) as a sovereign State; a subject of international law under bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties with other sovereign States, including five treaties with the United States. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a member of the Universal Postal Union; and had 137 embassies and consulates in 26 countries around the world. The Hawaiian Kingdom was undeniably a country that had already “attained a full measure of self-government.” The United States never lawfully acquired the Hawaiian Islands. Beginning in 1893, without provocation or warning or justification, the U.S. warship Boston, landed a company of fully armed Marines in Honolulu to back a coup d’etat by a cabal of 13 white-supremacists to forcibly depose the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Head of State, Queen Liliuokalani and seize control of the government... to the 1898 staging of a sham “annexation” of the Hawaiian Islands without a treaty... to the 1946 listing of Hawaii as a non-self-governing territory to be decolonized... to the 1959 staging of a sham statehood plebiscite, manipulating the UN decolonization process to effect the capture of the Hawaiian Islands — the United States never acquired nor extinguished the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Since the United Nations Charter defines a Non-Self-Governing Territory as a territory that has never been a subject of international law (not a sovereign State), to categorize Hawaii as a Non-Self-Governing Territory was, in fact, an international wrongful act as it contradicted Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defining what constitutes a Non-Self-Governing Territory. For this reason, the 1946 placement of Hawaii on the list of territories to be decolonized according to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 66, should be regarded as an international wrongful act of the United Nations. This international wrongful act contributes to the ongoing suppression of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign State; the destruction of Hawaiian nationality; the forced imposition of U.S. citizenship; the displacement and impoverishment of the Hawaiian people; the pillaging of lands and resources of the Hawaiian people; the affliction of foreign economic, social and cultural systems; and turning a peaceful, neutral country into a principal component of the menacing U.S. war machine, placing the people of Hawaii in imminent danger of annihilation by enemies of the U.S. The Hawaiian Kingdom and the Center for Peace and Reconciliation call upon the United Nations, its member States, and the international community to cease supporting the United States’ illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and to assist in the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Islands as a sovereign, independent, peaceful, neutral State, and to normalize andresume proper international relations with the Hawaiian Islands. ### PDF version: 
 October 29, 2022
“Consultation” – new bait, same trap The newest proposal from Washington D.C. to set up a “Consultation” platform to discuss relations between U.S. Federal Officials, Native Hawaiians and, possibly, a Native Hawaiian government, is the newest scam to put Hawaiians into the American Indian tribal-nation corral without actually saying so. They are avoiding the tribal nation term since we absolutely trashed that concept over the past 20 years. “Consultation” sounds good but is just another loaded term like “listening sessions” of the ‘DOI-rule-change’ of 2015… and the TMT “public input” of the past few years. With this scheme, whatever decisions the U.S. make, they can say native Hawaiians were “consulted”, implying that native Hawaiians approved. The U.S. continues to treat their 125-year-long illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands as a domestic, Native Hawaiian-American-Tribal problem, instead of an international dispute between sovereign nations. Any honest effort to settle the dispute requires the U.S. to speak with us on an equal level: sovereign nation to sovereign nation, not “consulting” with a bogus Native Hawaiian-American tribe. The illegal presence of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands is a gross international violation. It demands an international remedy. The only talks necessary are those to negotiate the peaceful, orderly withdrawal of the United States from the Hawaiian Islands; reparations to repair the damage; and the normalization and resumption of friendly relations. I say, sure go ahead and hold these “consultations”. They will provide excellent opportunities to vent and scold these American government “listeners.” Weʻve gotten very good at it. As long as we do not fool ourselves into thinking these “consultations” are legally binding or will make any substantive difference; and as long as we reserve our rights and speak as Hawaiian nationals, not Native (U.S.) Hawaiians; and as long as we address the real elephant in the room, the illegal U.S. presence in the Hawaiian Islands; and as long as we maintain Kapu Aloha... this could be fun! --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: [email protected] • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: [email protected] "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National |
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