E Mau Ke Ea: The Sovereign Hawaiian Nation

E Mau Ke Ea: The Sovereign Hawaiian Nation introduces visitors to the complex and nuanced history of the Hawaiian Nation. This traveling exhibition offers visitors an accurate and detailed understanding of Hawaiʻi’s political history and the influential roles of Native Hawaiians within it during the last two centuries. It recounts the consolidation of the islands by King Kamehameha I in 1810 and the establishment of a society based on law, literacy, and diplomacy. It also tells about the United States’ annexation of Hawaiʻi in the late-19th century, the rise of the Hawaiian rights movement in the late 1960s, and the resurgence of Hawaiian nationalism today.