An historical account of native Hawaiian encounters with and resistance to American colonialism, based on little-read Hawaiian-language sources.

Acknowledgments ix
1. Early Struggles with the Foreigners 15
2. Ka Hoku o ka Pakipika: Emergence of the Native Voice in Print 45
3. The Merrie Monarch: Genealogy, Cosmology, Mele, and Performance Art as Resistance 87
4. The Anitannexation Struggle 123
5. The Queen of Hawai’i Raises Her Solemn Note of Protest 164
Appendix A. A Text of the Objective Nupepa Kuokoa, as Published Therein, October 1861 205
Appendix B. Songs Composed by Queen Lili’uokalani during Her Imprisonment 207
Notes 209
Glossary 237
Bibliography 241
Index 253