Some of the state's largest and most influential Native Hawaiian organizations have formed a coalition aimed at educating the broader public about what it believes are the truths and misconceptions of Hawai'i's history.

The Hawai'i Pono'i Coalition will start its efforts with a celebration of the 169th birthday of Queen Lili'uokalani at 'Iolani Palace from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 2. The event, which is free, will include exhibits on Native Hawaiian history and culture, as well as all-day entertainment by Hawaiian musicians and hula halau. Families are encouraged to bring their own lunches, although there will be food booths.
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Among those listed as members of the coalition are Kamehameha Schools, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Alu Like Inc., the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, the Friends of 'Iolani Palace, the King William Charles Lunalilo Trust, the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust and Learning Center, the Queen Emma Foundation, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. and Takamine's 'Ilio'uokalani Coalition.

Hawaiian State sovereignty, however, provides as an alternative view to the political and legal history of the Hawaiian Islands that has been otherwise subsumed within U.S. State sovereignty and the political movement of indigenous peoples. By comparing and contrasting between the two concepts of Hawaiian State sovereignty on one end and Hawaiian Indigeneity on the other, it is possible to see the inherent contradictions and its mutual exclusivesity in concept given the legal history of the Hawaiian Islands.

Hawaiian State Sovereignty vs.	Hawaiian Indigeneity
Self-governing	Non-self-governing
Independent	Dependent
Sovereignty Established	Sovereignty Sought
Citizenship (multi-ethnic)	Indigenous (mono-ethnic)
Occupation	Colonization
De-Occupation	De-Colonization

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...when Hawaiian scholars and sovereignty activists, in particular, consistently employ the terms and theories associated with colonization and indigeneity, they are reinforcing the very control they seek to oppose. Craven, a Professor of International Law who has done extensive research on the continuity of the Hawaiian State, concludes:

For the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, therefore, acceding to their identification as an indigenous people would be to implicitly accede not only to the reality, but also to the legitimacy, of occupation and political marginalization. All they might hope for at that level is formal recognition of their vulnerability and continued political marginalization rather than the status accorded under international law to a nation belligerently occupied.