[injin]

ok , I stand corrected .
I am speaking more for the kanaka perspective , not the Ali'i
I agree , the Ali'i were total goofs and the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement of today need look no further than their own chiefs of old who sold out the kanaka worse than any.

But come on , those haole's were no angels !
We both may be off on the facts abit ;^)

You are right , the US Gov did not officially Annex
until it needed Hawaii as a solid base for war in the Spanish American war . And what happened in those years in between?
Where was Queen K ?

[KAUAIBOUND]

I have read that the US Congress was divided on annexation; Republicans for, Democrats against. The situation was finally resolved by the election of McKinley in 1896, otherwise annexation would have occurred earlier. Pragmatically, if the US had not annexed, the English, Germans, Russians or French would have.