Nā Pū’ali Kia’i and Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

Aloha Lāhui,

We are asking this as an open question for discussion and manaʻo.

Should Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi and Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi formally request that the offices of Representative Congressman Ed Case, Representative Jill Tokuda, Senator Brian Schatz, and Senator Mazie K. Hirono ask the Government Accountability Office, also known as the GAO, to issue a lawful determination on the 1898 Newlands Resolution?

The question is simple, but important:

Was the 1898 Newlands Resolution a lawful and binding resolution capable of annexing a foreign country outside the borders of the United States, under the Constitution of the United States and in light of the treaties that existed with the Hawaiian Kingdom Government?

We are not asking this to argue online.
We are asking because the people deserve clarity.

If the United States claims lawful authority over Hawaiʻi, then let that claim be examined through a formal legal and governmental process. If the Newlands Resolution is the foundation being relied upon, then let the lawful basis be stated clearly, publicly, and officially.

For too long, our people have been told to accept conclusions without being given full answers.

This is not about anger. This is about accountability, history, law, and truth.

We are asking our community:

Should this request be made?

Should our elected officials be asked to seek a formal GAO determination?

Should the public have an official answer on whether a joint resolution of Congress had the lawful authority to annex the Hawaiian Kingdom?

Please share your manaʻo in the comments.
We will be gathering responses for the next 10 days.

Please also share this post so more of our lāhui can participate.

Mahalo Lāhui.

08/30/2026

Sunday — Chapter 7: He Aupuni Aloha — The Kingdom That Governed With Love for Its People

Aloha kākou —

We close this week with Chapter 7: He Aupuni Aloha, the Kingdom that governed with love for its people.

Was the Kingdom perfect? No. No government is. But the Hawaiian Kingdom was real, functioning, literate, lawful, and deeply tied to kuleana. It had a legislature. It had courts. It had ministers. It had schools, newspapers, land records, taxes, citizenship, diplomacy, and a people who understood that governance was not just power.

Governance was responsibility.

That is the lesson we need right now. Aloha is not weakness. Aloha is not silence. Aloha is not letting others erase your people and call it peace. Aloha is the discipline to protect life, land, water, keiki, kūpuna, and the future.

He Aupuni Aloha means a government that remembers the people are not disposable.
That is what we are studying. That is what we are restoring in our minds first.

E ola ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi. E ola ka lāhui.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/29/2026

Saturday — Chapter 6: Ke Kumukānāwai o 1852 — A Bill of Rights for a New Era

Aloha kākou —

Today we continue with the 1852 Constitution, a major step in the Hawaiian Kingdom’s legal evolution.

This is important because it shows that the Kingdom was not frozen in time. Hawaiʻi was adapting. Hawaiʻi was revising. Hawaiʻi was strengthening rights and building a government that could stand in a world full of foreign pressure.

The 1852 Constitution expanded civil liberties. It protected freedom of religion, freedom of the press, habeas corpus, and protections against unreasonable search and seizure. It separated powers more clearly and showed that the Kingdom understood constitutional government at a very high level.

That matters today because people still try to speak about Hawaiʻi as if our ancestors did not understand law.

Our kūpuna understood law deeply.

They debated it. They wrote it. They amended it. They held leadership accountable to it. That is the story we are bringing back into the light.

E ola ke kānāwai. E ola ka pono.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/28/2026

Friday — Chapter 5: Nā Kānaka Maoli — A Literate Nation, A Sovereign People

Aloha kākou —

Today’s chapter is one of those reminders that makes you stand a little taller.

Kānaka Maoli were not just oral historians. We became one of the most literate peoples in the world. Our kūpuna read, wrote, printed, debated, published, recorded genealogies, defended land, preserved mele, and carried political thought through nūpepa.

That means our people were not waiting for someone else to write our story.

We wrote it ourselves.

The newspapers were not just paper. They were a battlefield of ʻike. They were where our people argued law, protected identity, remembered ʻohana, recorded moʻolelo, and pushed back against colonial pressure.

Every time someone acts like Hawaiian history is only what outsiders wrote about us, remember the nūpepa. Remember the hands that set the type. Remember the kūpuna who filled those pages with truth.

We were a literate nation. A thinking nation. A sovereign people.

E ola ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. E ola ka nūpepa. E ola ka lāhui.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/27/2026

Thursday — Chapter 4: Ke Kumukānāwai o 1840 — Hawaiʻi’s First Constitution

Aloha kākou —

Today we move into Ke Kumukānāwai o 1840, the first written Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

This Constitution did something powerful. It took the Declaration of Rights and built a government around it. It created structure. It created representation. It created a lawful framework for a Kingdom that was already sovereign and already governed by its own people.

This matters because the lie has always been that Hawaiʻi was waiting to be organized by someone else.

No. Hawaiʻi organized itself.
Our Kingdom had aliʻi leadership, elected representation, courts, law, land systems, and a people who understood that governance was kuleana. This was not a nation pretending to be modern. This was a Pacific Kingdom standing in its own intelligence.

When we teach the 1840 Constitution, we are not only teaching dates. We are teaching our people to remember that our Kingdom knew how to govern.

E ola ke Kumukānāwai. E ola ke Aupuni.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/26/2026

Wednesday — Chapter 3: He ʻŌlelo Kūʻokoʻa — The 1839 Declaration of Rights

Aloha kākou —

Today’s chapter brings us to 1839 and the Declaration of Rights.

This was not a small document. This was the Kingdom saying that chiefs and people had rights, that no one could just take from another person without law, and that life, limb, liberty, labor, and the productions of the mind mattered.
Think about how powerful that is.

In a time when empires were taking land across the world, Hawaiʻi was putting rights into writing. In a time when other Indigenous peoples were being pushed aside by colonial governments, our Kingdom was declaring that our people had lawful protection.

This is why we keep teaching it. Because our kūpuna were not silent. They were not confused. They knew what sovereignty meant. They knew what protection meant. They knew what injustice looked like, and they wrote law to stand against it.
The Declaration of Rights is not just history. It is memory with legal weight.

E ola ka pono.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

08/25/2026

Tuesday — Chapter 2: Kamehameha III — The King Who Chose His People

Aloha kākou —

Today we honor Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, the king who carried Hawaiʻi through one of the hardest transitions in our history.

He inherited a Kingdom surrounded by foreign pressure, disease, missionaries, merchants, imperial eyes, and a world that was changing fast. He could have chosen to hold absolute power. He could have chosen to serve the people who wanted access to land, influence, and profit.
Instead, he chose his people.

That is what makes his reign so powerful. He understood that Hawaiʻi had to speak to the world in the language of written law while still protecting the living law of the lāhui. He helped move the Kingdom into constitutional government not because Hawaiʻi was weak, but because Hawaiʻi was strong enough to define itself.

Kamehameha III reminds us that real leadership is not about holding power over people. Real leadership is about protecting the people from those who would misuse power.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi