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Liliʻuokalani was active in philanthropy and the welfare of her people. In 1886, she founded a bank for women in Honolulu named Liliuokalani's Savings Bank and helped Isabella Chamberlain Lyman establish Kumukanawai o ka Liliuokalani Hui Hookuonoono, a money lending group for women in Hilo. In the same year, she also founded the Liliʻuokalani ...
Her private secretary and trustee of her deed of trust, Curtis P. Iaukea, immediately raised her royal standard (flag) over Washington Place to signal her death. Iaukea's wife Charlotte Kahaloipua Hanks, and two elderly royal retainers Wakeke Ululani Heleluhe and Onaʻala, were also in attendance at the Queen's death.
However, the Committee of Safety did not believe her promise was sincere, and continued with their planning. A group of men mostly drawn from the ranks of the Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom formed the Committee of Safety and asked the United States Minister, John L. Stevens , to land troops from the U.S.S. Boston (anchored in Honolulu ...
Her appeals immediately after the overthrow were acted upon by her friend, President Grover Cleveland, who demanded her reinstatement from the President of Hawaiʻi, Sanford B. Dole, following a confidential investigation and report by James Henderson Blount submitted July 17, 1893. Dole refused Cleveland's demands.
In her memoir, Kalākaua's sister Lili'uokalani, who would later become queen, wrote that the king signed the new constitution because he was afraid of being assassinated if he refused.
The Republic of Hawaii put the former Queen on trial. The prosecution asserted that Liliuokalani had committed misprision of treason, because she allegedly knew that guns and bombs for the Wilcox attempted counter-revolution had been hidden in the flower bed of her personal residence at Washington Place. Liliuokalani denied these accusations.
After her pardon in 1896, she spent an extended period with family in Boston, while traveling to Washington, DC to petition against the American annexation of Hawaiʻi. Her translation of the Kumulipo was published by Lee & Shepard in 1897. [4] The following is a list of scholarly and historical resources related to Hawaiʻi's last monarch.
Oath of Allegiance (Philippines) Patriotic Oath (Philippines) Pledge of Allegiance; Pledge of Allegiance (South Korea) Pledge of Allegiance to the Mexican Flag; Pledge of Allegiance to the Philippine Flag; Pledge of Loyalty Act 2006; Popery Act; Promissione ducale; Protestation of 1641