Religion’s Role in the Annexation of Hawai'i and Hawaiian Cultural Erasure: Native Hawaiian Religion and its Contrast with 1820s Protestantism
Religion’s Role in the Annexation of Hawai'i and Hawaiian Cultural Erasure: Native Hawaiian Religion and its Contrast with 1820s Protestantism
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2022-03-09
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McCall, Maile
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7
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Protestant missionaries came to Hawai‘i in 1819, and with them they brought immense
change to the islands, eventually playing a role in the annexation of the kingdom. This
paper seeks to understand the true role of the Protestant missionaries in nineteenthcentury
Hawai‘i, and how they were involved in the annexation and the subsequent
Hawaiian cultural suppression. This cultural suppression is significant because when
the United States took over the islands, an entire monarchy was overthrown. With the
reignition of the Hawaiian culture revival, it is key to understand how it was dampened
in the first place. The missionaries were eager to bring the people salvation in the eyes of
the Protestant God, especially after disillusionment with their traditional religion. However,
after economic hardship, they lost sight of that goal and, working with the merchant
class, brought down the monarchy and suppressed the celebration of Hawaiian culture.
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