Downes said, "leaves out the original settlers whose story is “very different” and who welcomed all who came after".  That would NOT be true.  All new comers had to be approved by the King Kamehameha I, and many people were turned away from Hawaii.  Later, the King's, Board of Immigration, oversaw the importation of the indentured Japanese, and Chinese, (a form of slavery outlawed in the U.S. after 1865), to work in the fields in order to fill the tax coffers. Specific racial groups were targeted, as King Kalakaua did with the Japanese, and Portuguese. 

On November 24, 1882, Hawaii's Envoy to Japan, Kapena, read an official statement to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Inouye, a prepared message from King Kalakaua he said, "We believe the Japanese and the Hawaiians spring from a cognate race and that Japanese children growing up and amalgamating with our population will produce a new and vigorous race, which will repeople our Islands".