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Hawai'i's Journey to Statehood | Lost Kingdom | 5

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The Legend of Queen Lili O'Kalani

The day Queen Lili O'Kalani was born the legend goes a rainbow appeared and People cried out. It didn't appear that she would ever become Queen of Hawaii because she was not a member of Kamehameha family. She was adopted by a higher ranked Hawaiian family and brought up for the first few years on the island of Maui By about the age of seven she was sent to the Missionary school that they ran for the high chief's children. And in fact, she supplemented her education by seeking out her own teachers later in life and ended up being Marvellously educated. As a young woman she also was quite well-traveled She had visited the United

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