Co-Produced by Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina & the Hawaiian Patriotic League
This short program – a must see for any student of the Hawaiian sovereignty issue – tells the story of the defeat of a treaty of annexation by Queen Lili’uokalani and loyal subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom, who sent an anti-annexation petition to Congress in 1897 consisting of over 38,000 signatures representing 95 percent of the native Hawaiian population.