Since learning about the colonization of Hawaii by the U.S. government and the impact colonization has had on Native Hawaiians for centuries, I have been doing a lot of reflecting on the topic, my previous visits to Hawaii, and why we aren't taught about the colonialist past of Hawaii. I started doing research on the colonization of Hawaii and how it effects Native Hawaiians. In my multicultural psychology class we watched parts of a documentary called " Hawaii the Stolen Paradise ," I was shocked that I had never learned about the history of Hawaii before and so I watched the whole documentary and did some other research to further educate myself. A Brief History of the Colonization of Hawaii Hawaii is an archipelago made up of eight islands. Native Hawaiians are Polynesian and are thought to have come from Tahiti or the Marquesas Islands. By the 12th or 13th century Hawaiians were living on their own, and formed different kingdoms. In 1810, King Kamehameha united all