House of Kamehameha

So he was a industrialist and essentially a capitalist that was attempting to profit off of this legal, political, and social situation in Hawaii that he saw to be profitable.

So the Bishop estate is a trust that emerges out of a long line of money, assets, and lands that were brought together from the Kamehameha dynasty and the family that was at the helm of the constitutional monarchy of the Hawaiian kingdom, right? So the Kamehameha monarchy, the Hawaiian islands are called the Hawaiian islands and Hawaii because Kamehameha, who was the unifier and the archipelago was from Hawaii island, were called the Hawaiian islands because of his particular unification and centralization of a constitutional monarchy.

And then his family becomes the next generations of his dynasty.

The bishop estate is a alii trust is what we call it.

And so alii are the rulers, you know, kings and queens, but also lower chiefs and their family members.

So the bishop estate trust over time is accumulating and accumulating and accumulating more land, more wealth, etc, etc.

So today, They're very well known for the financialization of and institutionalization of the Kamehameha schools.

And that's something that we can talk about as a kind of part of the modern Hawaiian sovereignty struggle too later.

Previously, they had been three-sided.

Afterward, he went back to Samoa and returned with Pili, whom he made ruler, and from whom the Kamehamehas were descended.

From the Hawaiian melees, or songs, we may picture their life.

The men were skillful fishermen, using hooks of shell, bone, or tortoise shell, nets of olona fiber, or long spears of hardwood.

Section 4.

Chapter 3.

The Five Kamehamehas.

Part 1.