Here we go again with ethnic cleansing of Hawaiian history to delete names of Caucasians who were important leaders.

I have two comments whose purposes are to defend the memory of Sanford Dole and to document how ethnic cleansing of names has become a political weapon.   

Sanford Dole was a native-born subject of the Kingdom.  He served as elected member of the Kingdom legislature from Koloa, was appointed Justice of the Kingdom's Supreme Court by Kalakaua, reconfirmed by Lili'uokalani.  As a Kingdom subject he had every right to help overthrow a corrupt regime.  He served as President of the Provisional Government and of the Republic, then Governor of the Territory, and then Judge on the U.S. District Court.  Dole's service to Hawaii was far more significant than Kapaakea.  Dole also hanai'd a native girl, who named both her oldest son and her youngest son Sanford Ballard Dole Low.  Dole's descendants thus include Myron and Nainoa Thompson.  See details at 
http://tinyurl.com/6pymj