If the native people are not a race, what are they?   Don't you mean a race of people who exclude other races, which is illegal according to the USA constitutional law?  But if the native people were citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii, why does USA constitutional law apply.  I am totally confused.   The Kingdom of Hawaii was about a race of people, distinguished by their Ohana (related by blood or marriage or hana'i) Who lived in a kingdom ruled by the ali`i (chiefly class), who belonged to the Ohana of Kamehameha, and later, by the ohana of Kalakaua, etc.  And, then the ruling monarch later granted other peoples from other lands, citizenship in the Kingdom.  Suppose we say, instead, citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii, would that work?