Born in Kukuiʻula in the town of Kōloa on the southern coast of Kauaʻi, the young boy was a prince of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from his high birth. Because of this, Prince Kūhiō was educated with other royal children at the Royal School and later Oʻahu College on the island of Oʻahu. At a young age, he lost both his parents and was adopted by Queen Kapiʻolani, the wife of King David Kalākaua.
Following the death of King Kalākaua, the King's sister, the Princess Liliʻuokalani, assumed the throne but always favored Kūhiō. After the overthrow of the throne, Kūhiō was elected as a delegate to the U.S. Congress from Hawaiʻi and spearheaded the 1921 federal Hawaiian Homes Commission Act which aimed to provide a homesteading program for native Hawaiians by placing 200,000 acres of land into the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust.
Today, multiple buildings across the state are dedicated in his honor and each March 26th, the State of Hawaiʻi honors this celebrator of traditional Hawaiian arts and culture. Below are resources from the Sullivan Family Library discussing his legacy and the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
"Hawaiian Blood is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui explains how blood quantum classification emerged as a way to undermine Native Hawaiian sovereignty... Kauanui provides impassioned assessment of how the arbitrary correlation of ancestry and race imposed by the U.S. government on the indigenous people of Hawaiʻi has had far-reaching legal and cultural effects." - from publisher
"Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, Silva demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. A powerful critique of colonial historiography, Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism." - from publisher
"In this engrossing work, Jon Van Dyke describes and analyzes in detail the complex cultural and legal history of Hawaiʻi's Crown lands. He argues that these lands must be examined as a separate entity and their unique status recognized... The question of who owns Hawaiʻi's Crown Lands today is of singular importance for Native Hawaiians in their quest for recognition and sovereignty..." - from publisher
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