text: The Native Hawaiians shouldn't get lost in the forest due to the trees. The choice is simple, keep hanging on to an independent sovereign monarchy Old Kingdom, or accept Nation status recognition from the US government. Choosing a Nation is not a loss, it is a gain. It gains the right to legal recognition, and with those rights, the rights to begin petitioning. The Old Kingdom was a Monarchy. Monarchies are obsolete in the reality of a 21st century Earth. Also, Queen Liliuokalani was a devout christian, devoted to a sacred jew god. The only sacred lands she recognized were in Israel. The Hawaiian islands were not sacred to her, since that would have been blasphemy to the jew god religion. The Hawaiians always distinguished between aina (food producing land), aokuewa (worthless land) and kapu (tapu) aina, kupua ohana land. Queen Liliokulani viewed her Monarchy lands as Crown Lands. There was still a distinction between aina and aokuewa, but the tapu aina was just crown land, for sale.