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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #61: The Dark History of the Aloha State | Alika Spahn Naihe
Description: For such a beautiful location, Hawaii has a dark history of having to fight off colonizers from foreign countries, as well as those from a variety of churches across the globe.
Everybody wants access to the midway point across the Pacific Ocean. Some worked in partnership with the Hawaiians through trade, while others plotted ways to try and capture the tiny island nation.
Leave it to the United States to try and steal the island chain through deception, but it’s how the Hawaiian people responded that prevented them from being treated like their less fortunate br...