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We Intend to Eat Pork | Hawaii: Rise

Nebula – Indie Streaming [Unofficial] June 11, 2026
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"Free Hawaii," from what? To answer that, we have to talk about how a Hawaii went from being a collection of warring island kingdoms to an internationally recognized constitutional monarchy.

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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii - James L. Haley (2014) https://amzn.to/3Zkt8au

Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell (2011) https://amzn.to/47n5b4A

A History of Hawaii - Ralph Kuykendall (1926) https://amzn.to/3OKwIUQ

The Hawaiian Kingdom, Vols 1-3 - Ralph Kuykendall (1938, 1953, 1967) https://ulukau.org/ulukau-books/?a=d&d=EBOOK-KINGDOM1 https://ulukau.org/ulukau-books/?a=d&d=EBOOK-KINGDOM2 https://ulukau.org/ulukau-books/?a=d&d=EBOOK-KINGDOM3

Overthrow - Stephen Kinzer (2006) https://amzn.to/4eh3cRn

The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides (2024) https://amzn.to/4efkzSA

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia - Christina Thompson (2019) https://amzn.to/4dUTkwP

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen - Liliuokalani (1898) https://amzn.to/3Zd7zss

Hawaiian Antiquities - David Malo (1839) https://amzn.to/3DeaCre

Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii - Samuel Kamakau (1961) https://amzn.to/42WV8BK

► Documentaries/Movies/Videos

Nation Within: The Story of America’s Annexation of Hawai’i - PBS Hawaii (1998) https://youtu.be/XOj8xkeRCUU

Conquest of Hawaii - Steve Kroopnick (2003) https://youtu.be/nne0-9XPkLA

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise - Luis Castro (2014) https://youtu.be/5l_6Cz1qZNc

KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials - Keoni Alvarez (1998) https://youtu.be/2MLWBLmpSOI

► Websites and Other Reading

https://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2001/Feb/12/212localnews29.html https://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/05/25/travel/tsutsumi.html https://www.oha.org/wp-content/uploads/Estimated-Population-of-the-Hawaiian-Islands-1778-1896.pdf https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1894app2/d5 https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1945/november/army-and-navy-kamehameha-i

► Video and Photo Credits

Drunk History S2E7: Hawaii (2014) https://amzn.to/4d1dCU0

Hawaii (1966) https://amzn.to/3Xk144y

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