Great Mahele Essays

In Mahele of 1848 a huge great land revolution had started, and the land was divided among the 4 categories, which was land belonging to the king, land belonging to the ali’i or chiefs, land that was able to be purchased by the foreigners, and land that was worked by the maka’ainana or the commoners (Borreca). Kamehameha III called the Mahele to successfully complete the division of islands of Hawaii and was expecting the Mahele to work out effectively, but the whole thing turned out oppositely

The Great Mahele affected all the lands of Hawaii. Hawaiian land redistribution was proposed by King Kamehameha III in the 1830s and enacted in 1848. Because the whites wanted to have Hawaii become more like America, they influenced King Kamehameha III to change from feudal system to a system where people own their own land. This Great Mahele or Land Division causes a lot of political, social, and cultural changes that will be discussed later in this paper. Today, we also see how this Land Division

The Great Mahele of 1848 was a foreign concept of land division that was specifically designed to allow the maka’ainana or the Hawaiian commoners to own land. Kauikeaouli, also known as Kamehameha III, created the Mahele due to foreign pressure. The foreigners wanted more control of the land that they lived on, being unsatisfied with granted long-term leases of land. "The missionaries for their part persisted in a curious argument which held that only the private ownership of lands would save the

From a foreign perspective, one of the main reasons the Mahele was enacted was because of the western way of thinking towards land ownership. The western way of thinking towards land ownership was that each individual could purchase, own, and sell land (Cachola). As the foreigners were accustomed to that way of thinking, they were perplexed by by the fact that the Hawaiians didn’t have the same ideas in terms of land ownership. So, the foreigners demanded that they system be changed in a way they

The Mahele was an important event, changing the way the land was divided. The Hawaiians would realize they would be going to lose their lands to the foreigners. The Mahele was unnecessary and caused great suffering for the Hawaiians. The only person who really needed it was the foreigners, it was a horrible idea. The Great Mahele Act of 1848 was unjustified because foreigners didn’t need to make new laws, Hawaiians lost land, and poverty came (http://www.hawaiihistory.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig

During 1848, Hawai’i began to change immensely as the Great Mahele emerged, completely altering the lifestyle of Hawaiians. The Mahele was a division of the land that was meant to give both Hawaiians and foreigners categorized portions of specific areas. The idea of this land division was created by King Kamehameha III after the Paulet Episode occurred, with foreigners attempting to take land by force. In fear that the land of the Hawaiians would get taken over in the future, King Kamehameha III

The Great Mahele was a land division that happened in 1848 due to mounting pressure from foreigners for Kauikeaouli to let them buy land. According to Lâm, Maivân Clech of, “The Kuleana Act Revisited: The Survival of Traditional Hawaiian Commoner Rights in Land.,” he states that due to the Great Mahele, and the confusing rules and high costs of it, it caused foreigners to own most of the land. The splitting up disrupted Hawaiians’ understanding and concept of land ownership and favored foreigners

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