"Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is as precious to you. Quite warmly as you love your country, so they love theirs. With all your goodly possessions, covering a territory so immense that there yet remain parts unexplored, possessing islands that, although new at hand, had to be neutral ground in time of war, do not covet the little vineyard of Naboth's,* so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for"be not deceived, God is not mocked." The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call "Father," and now whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."

* This account she's referring to is located in the Bible I Kings 21:1-24

Born, Near Punch Bowl, on Oahu, September 2,1938 To Kapaakea (k) and Keohokalole (w), her Great-grandfather being the father of Kamehameha I (Her sister, (not Bernice) the Governor of Maui, was HRM Akahi Nui's grand mother)

To know her and have a glimpse of the knowledge, wisdom, but most of all, aloha, with which she ruled her people, we can begin to see the depth of the betrayal with which she was faced. Through it all, she remained steadfast in her belief, that one day justice would prevail and one day her people and the land to which they belonged, would be free. - ES - webmaster