US statehood for Hawaii violated UN decolonization law and made Hawaiians legal wards

Evidence

In 1959, Hawai’i was admitted as a state of the United States in direct contradiction of international law, which until that year had listed Hawai’i as having a special colonial status of non-selfgoverning territories. The State Admissions Act made Native Hawaiians “wards” of the newly formed state of Hawai’i. This meant that like children and mentally disabled individuals, the Kanaka Maoli would have no standing in U.S. federal courts. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 851

Categorization

• XREF: Reads directly against Johnson v. M’Intosh doctrine: conquest and wards-of-the-state status made Hawaiians non-sovereign in American courts — same legal machinery of discovery. — connects to: US trusteeship of Pacific islands functioned as de facto annexation; The U.S. sought to stockpile basing rights before decolonization made islands unavailable — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 169; A national park evicted living Hawaiians to present a historic Hawaiian culture — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 831 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• US trusteeship of Pacific islands functioned as de facto annexation #expands (0.85)
• Native Hawaiians are disproportionately poor and imprisoned despite being 19 percent of the state #expands (0.80) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 858
• A national park evicted living Hawaiians to present a historic Hawaiian culture #expands (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 831
• The U.S. sought to stockpile basing rights before decolonization made islands unavailable #complicates (0.70) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 169