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Okay, the ceded lands were the lands
that belonged to the Kingdom

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and the people of Hawaiʻi in 1893
when the Queen was overthrown.

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(interviewer) Can you start that again,
because of the car?

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Oh, ok.

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(interviewer)
Go ahead.

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The ceded lands were the lands
that belonged to the Kingdom

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and the people of Hawaiʻi in 1893,
when Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown.

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At that time, there were
about 2.5 million acres in the kingdom

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and when she was forcibly overthrown
by the United States government,

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these lands she ceded, or transferred,
to the United States minister,

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there to be held in trust for the people.

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(interviewer) Rolling.
I would suggest saying that again.

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Ok. The ceded lands were the lands
that belonged to the Kingdom

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and the people of Hawaiʻi in 1893,
when the Queen was overthrown

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by the force
of the United States government.

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At that time, the Queen ceded these lands,
or transferred these lands, under protest

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to the United States minister,
there to be held in trust

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for the native people until America would
undo the injustice that had occurred.

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We know historically
that the injustice was not undone.

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Consequently, these lands were passed
to the provisional government

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and during the five or six years
that the provisional government existed,

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about 600,000 acres of these lands
were transferred to private hands.

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The remaining lands were transferred
to the federal government

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when Hawaiʻi was annexed
and then in 1959, these lands,

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approximately 1.5 million acres,
were transferred by the United States

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to the State of Hawaiʻi and impressed
with a trust for two beneficiaries,

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the public and also the Native Hawaiian.

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Provision 5F of the Admissions Act
of the State of Hawaiʻi states

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that these lands are to be held
for five purposes:

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For public improvements, education,
the making of home...