In 1875, King David Kalakaua traveled to Washington, D.C., on a mission to convince the United States to lower or eliminate taxes on products to and from Hawaii, specifically sugar.
U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz held a hearing Wednesday on the next steps following the U.S. Interior Department’s report on Indian boarding schools. The report confirmed that forced assimilation of Indigenous children was U.S. policy at over 400 known federal schools dating back to 1819.
WASHINGTON, DC (KITV4) Forced cultural assimilation and the suppression of the Hawaiian language are among the wrongs the United States is acknowledging in a new report.
WASHINGTON DC Forced cultural assimilation and the suppression of the Hawaiian language are among the wrongs the United States is acknowledging in a new report.