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Indigenous Literature
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Given that the United States purportedly annexed Hawai'i in 1898, before these statements were negotiated, those who cite them apply them retroactively. In this logic Hawai'i is merely occupied by the United States; kingdom nationalists argue that Hawai'i was never colonized: therefore decolonization is an inappropriate political strategy. Because the Hawaiian nation afforded citizenship to people who were not Kanaka Maoli [native people to Hawai'i] - and because of its status as an independent
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― Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
― Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
