Hawaiian sovereignty movement

Although it started as a white nationalist group, today a large number of the practitioners of this movement are not white.

The Hawaii Sovereignty Movement and some Native American groups are some of the best examples of this.

Examples such as the 2003 standoff in Aveville, South Carolina, the 2007 Edward and Elaine Brown standoff, the 2010 West Memphis police shootings, the 2014 Bundy standoff, the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which also involved the Bundy family, the 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers, and the 2021 Wakefield standoff, which involved African-American Moorish sovereign citizens, are rare, but also highlight how dangerous this movement can be.

internet, these ideas and their pseudo-legal documents have spread far and wide, and there's a large overlap between Sobsits and QAnon.

Kingdom's government.

Those about 2 million acres of land have been largely used for what the Hawaiian movement and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement might consider nefarious purposes for occupation, for colonization, for commercial private interest ventures that do not benefit Native Hawaiians in particular.

Yeah, you know, in the decades after statehood, this is when we really saw that huge push and explosion of the tourism industry.

There's a huge push to build hotels, resorts, a lot of suburban development and military infrastructure as well that sort of came to replace what was the dominant sort of sugar plantation economy and even became referred to as poverty.

But what comes out of that is a revitalization in particular of Native Hawaiian cultural practices, traditions, language, et cetera.

And those modes of indigenous resurgence start to get utilized in political ways.

And this is really where the Hawaiian movement takes off.

So this is where you have non-native Hawaiian and native Hawaiian farmers around the archipelago, but notably in Hawaii, fighting to protect water rights.