Princess Kaiulani

A figure who conveyed the Haka spirit was Hawaii’s Princess Kaiulani who did everything she could against all odds against the colonization of her country.

Credit- Island Film Group

“Seventy years ago, Christian America sent over Christian men and women to give religion and civilization to Hawaii.

Today, three of the sons of those missionaries are at your capitol asking you to undo their father’s work.

Who sent them?

Who gave them the authority to break the Constitution which they swore they would uphold?

Today, I, a poor weak girl with not one of my people with me and all these ‘Hawaiian’ statesmen against me, have strength to stand up for the rights of my people.

Even now I can hear their wail in my heart and it gives me strength and courage and I am strong — strong in the faith of God, strong in the knowledge that I am right, strong in the strength of seventy million people who in this free land will hear my cry and will refuse to let their flag cover dishonor to mine!” Princess Kaiulani Speech