EVER WONDER HOW A HAWAI'I
STREET GOT ITS NAME?
EVERY THURSDAY WE HAVE OUR ALOHA
AUTHENTIC SEGMENT.
IN THIS WEEK'S SEGMENT, KAMAKA
PILI TAKES TO A SIDE STREET IN
WAIKIKI NAMED AFTER HAWAI'I'S
LAST RULING MONARCH.
WE'RE HERE IN THE AHUPUAA OF
MANOA IN THIS AREA WAIKIKI TO
TALK ABOUT THE STREET THAT GETS
IS NAME FROM HAWAI'I'S LAST
RULING MONARCH, QUEEN
LILIUOKALANI.
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI GETS HER
ROYAL NAME FROM HER BROTHER KING
KALAKAUA WHEN HE NAMED HER HEIR
TO THE THROWN BECAUSE HE DIDN'T
HAVE ANY CHILDREN.
EVERY ALII HOLD THEIR OWN TRIALS
AND TRIBULATIONS.
SHE WAS THE ONE TO BE ILLEGALLY
OVERTHROWN IN 1893 FROM THE
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
IMPRISONED IN HER ROOM.
THAT LED TO THE ANNEXATION OF
HAWAI'I, WHICH EVENTUALLY
STATEHOOD TOOK PLACE IN 1959.
DID YOU KNOW?
NOW YOU DO.
Kristine: JOINING US NOW
WITH MORE IS KAMAKA PILI.
GOOD MORNING.
Kristine: FOR THE LONGEST
TIME, I SAID HER NAME WRONG.
IT'S LILIUOKALANI.
SO WHEN DID THE QUEEN REIGN OVER
HAWAI'I?
FOLLOWING HER BROTHER'S
PASSING IN 1891.
Kristine: VERY IMPORTANT,
WHAT LED TO THE OVERTHROW?
LONG STORY SHORT, IT WAS WHEN
THE QUEEN BECAME QUEEN, ONE OF ONE OF
THE FIRST THINGS SHE WANTED TO
DO IS RESTORE THE POWER TAKEN
AWAY FROM THE MONARCHY.
THE CONSTITUTION AT THE TIME WAS
FORCEFULLY SIGNED BY KING
KALAKAUA IN 1887 AT GUNPOINT.
THAT CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN BY
A LOT OF AMERICAN BUSINESS
PEOPLE AND FORCED THE KING TO
SIGN IT.
THAT'S WHAT TOOK AWAY LOT OF THE
POWER.
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI DIDN'T LIKES LIKE
THIS.
WHEN SHE TOOK THE THROWN, THE
SUGAR PLANTATION OWNERS FEARFUL,
PARDONED UP WITH THE MILITARY TO
CREATE THIS BATTLE OF WAR
AGAINST THE QUEEN.
SHE DIDN'T WANT BLOODSHED 6 HER
PEOPLE.
SO SHE GAVE UP THE SOVEREIGNTY
OF HER POWER AND THROWN AT
THAT.JANUARY 17TH.
Kristine: BIG SACRIFICE.
AND SHE WAS IMPRISONED IN HER
PALACE.
WHAT HAPPENED?
CHICKEN SKIN.
WE TALKED ABOUT PRINCE CUE HIS
HIS -- KUHIO AND KALANIANAOLE.
REBEL IN 185 -- 1895.
THE GOVERNMENT TOLD THE QUEEN.
THEY FORCED HER TO RELINQUISH
ALL FUTURE POWERS TO THE THROWN.
THEY PUT HER THROUGH A TRIAL AND
MADE HER GIVE UP EVERYTHING.
BECAUSE OF THAT THEY CONVICTED
HER OF FIVE YEARS OF HARD LABOR,
BY FORTUNATE DIDN'T TURN OUT TO
BE THAT CRAZY.
Kristine: FOR FIVE YEARS
SHE WAS IMPRISONEDDED IN THE
PALACE.
TURNED OUT TO BE'S MONTHS SHE
WAS IN LIKE HOUSE ARREST.
LEARN MORE?
THERE'S MANY PLACES.
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS.
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI HAS A TRUST.
I BELIEVE LILIUOKALANI TRUST.
THE WEBSITE SHARES A LOT.
Kristine: SHE'S SUCH AN
IMPORT FIGURE IN HAWAIIAN
CULTURE AND HISTORY.
TO THINK OF OWL HOW OUR ALII
THOUGHT OF PEOPLE.
WE DON'T SEE AS MUCH TODAY.