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initiated a resolution, which stated that due to its geographical and political status, the Kingdom of Hawaii would be entitled to lead a confederation of Polynesian countries. The government of the Kingdom voted unanimously to pass the resolution six months later, and Gibson was named the person
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in 1882. However, the monarchy was abolished in 1880, and the French colonizers didn't want the two island groups to be in contact with each other. Kalākaua was planning to visit Tahiti in 1887, but after he was forced to sign the so-called
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The confederation was never officially founded. A potential partial reason for this was the fact that the founding process would have required too many changes, most of which were based on the Western system of government. The
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that was used to award people who contributed to the creation of the confederation. The Grand Cross, the number of which was limited to 15, was given to the king of Samoa
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Bush stayed in Samoa as an ambassador and started to formulate a constitution for the confederation, which was approved by the Hawaiian legislature in March 1887.
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who had gone missing, it was later discovered it had actually sank. The locals at Erromango resisted the Hawaiians and destroyed the settlement. When the
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then arrived to Samoa, overthrew Malietoa, and forced him into exile. Later on, the attempt of creating the confederation was named as a reason for the
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to sail around Polynesia in order to recruit local leaders to join the confederation. This caused anxiety in Europe and America, and for example the
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returned, it picked up the surviving Hawaiians and returned to Hawaii, however, most of the Hawaiians died on the return voyage, including Manuia.
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in order to find workers in Polynesia. At the same time, Tripp was commissioned as the Special Commissioner for Central and Western Polynesia. The
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In addition to the still independent states, Kalākaua also tried to get countries already colonized by the European along with his confederation.
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also had a second mission of increasing relations between the Polynesian nations of the South Pacific and the Hawaiian Kingdom.
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and Manuia. The ships brought along around 800 Hawaiians and supplies intended to build a settlement. The ships arrived at
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and began settling with the intention of colonizing it. The Becket later ventured to find the
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ambassador to the United States worried about a rumor that Hawaii planned to annex Samoa.
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took over Fiji, there were only three independent archipelagos: Hawaii, Samoa and Tonga.
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In 1884, the Hawaiian Kingdom employed Captain Alfred N. Tripp to command the
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On June 28, 1880, a Hawaiian government minister by the name of
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Kingdoms of Hawaii and Tahiti that were supposed to confederate
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The Hawaiian kingdom, vol. 3, 1874-1893, The Kalakaua dynasty
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from European and American imperialism since when the
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Index

Polynesian Confederation

confederation
king of Hawaii
Kalākaua
Polynesian peoples
United Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom
brigs
Vanuatu
Boki
Erromango
Walter M. Gibson
Pōmare V
king of Tahiti
Honolulu
Bayonet Constitution
schooner
Royal Order of the Star of Oceania
Malietoa Laupepa
John E. Bush
German
Imperial German Navy
overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii


"Polynesian Confederacy"
"Kealani Cook: Kalakaua's Polynesian Confederacy: Teaching World History in Hawai'i and Hawai'i in World History"
"Hawaiian Colonization and Conquest!"
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania

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