EDN 509 DECISION 6 Write either Yes or No in the blanks provided:

______1. Hawaiians call themselves "HAOLES" and refer to strangers as "KANAKAS".

______2. Two Hawaiian customs lead to the inevitable conflict with outsiders: 1) the use of currency in the market economy, and 2) the notion that the land would be owned by individual family groups.

______3. Conservation efforts of the early sea captains with the chiefs resulted in the replenishment of the sandlewood trees on the islands; sandlewood could be bought in Hawaii for 1 cent per pound and sold in Canton, China for 34 cents per pound.

______4. The plantation system in Hawaii, governed by King Kamehameha, provided for the building of one nationality--Hawaiian--to the exclusion of other nationalities or immigrant groups, and thus resulting in a homogeneous population much like Japan.

______5. In 1877, the "bayonet constitution" was signed by the planter oligarchy disenfranchising the king as a cermonial monarch and creating the first true democracy in Hawaii by giving the vote to all Asians and excluding the vote to U.S. citizens and other aliens.

______6. The Republic of Hawaii was established by Queen Liliuokalani in the "Pinapple Wars" of 1893 and 1898, when she ordered her troops to dispel the American insurgents; the result was a surrender by President Cleveland with an offer of "Republic" status in exchange for a "coaling station" for America's Pacific fleet.

______7. The opening of the Panama canal by America made it difficult for Hawaiian commerce and products to compete with other nations who took advantage of the canal to export their products to America.

______8. The plantation economy, legalized by the Hawaiian Rehablitation Act of 1921, continued earning large profits with the support of the Democratic party, which had dominated island politics for the first 50 years of the twentieth century.

______9. Hawaiians today are a polyglot of peoples with varied backgrounds who identified politically in 1954 with the Republican party who convinced workers that their future would be best served by identifying politically with their working-class brethern regardless of their ethnic origin.

_____10. As a result of self-governance, today 95% of all land in Hawaii is privately owned, and 55% of that land is held by 70-odd native Hawaiian corporations and individuals, in spite of more recent efforts by the Japanese to buy off "prime properties".

_____11. Modern economy in Hawaii is based upon a traditional value system known as "HO'OPONOPONO" ("setting to right of wrongs"), where peer competition and idividuality is highly valued in a system of social relationships found within the Hawaiian extended family.