A look at the Pacific Islands and the U.S. territories there

A look at the Pacific Islands and the U.S. territories there

Islanders May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month so today we look at the Pacific Islands and the American territories there. A kingdom, a territory, then a state One hundred years before Hawaii became a territory annexed by the U.S., it experienced a kingdom, a coup d’état and the establishment of the Republic of Hawai’i. Starting in the 1790s and with the help of Western advisers and weapons, Kamehameha the Great of the big i…