King Kamehameha was never an American. He was the ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, an independent nation. The 1993 Apology Bill passed by the US Congress states that Hawaiians have never relinquished their sovereignty and admits that the US acted illegally in overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani. King Kamehameha was not an American when he was alive, and he is certainly not now because of America's self-admitted theft of the Hawaiian Islands.