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Speaker 1: Happy Saturday everybody. This week and next week on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: we are going to be looking at some Hawaiian history.

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Speaker 1: Today it is Kama the Great who united the Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: Islands into one kingdom. This episode originally came out in July.

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Speaker 1: It features previous hosts Katie and Sarah. Welcome to Stuff

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Speaker 1: You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radios How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Katie Lambert and I'm Sarah Dowdy and Sarah was

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Speaker 1: in the mood for a little hot weather history this week,

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Speaker 1: so he decided to take on Hawaii. And today's subject

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Speaker 1: is Kameamea the Great, And have to start with a

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Speaker 1: little disclaimer. We had asked for some help with Hawaiian pronunciations,

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Speaker 1: so listener Jody was kind enough to call me and

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Speaker 1: give me her expertise. But any mistakes in podcast are

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Speaker 1: mine and not hers or mine. So Kamma was born

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Speaker 1: sometime around seventeen fifty eight, but he actually had a

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Speaker 1: different name, and it was Pie, which meant hard shelled

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Speaker 1: crab as a cancer I can sympathize, but his birth

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Speaker 1: carried an omen with it, and that's because there was

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Speaker 1: this bright star shining in the sky right before he

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Speaker 1: was born, and it may have actually been Haley's comment,

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Speaker 1: and that's how we put his birth year sometime around

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Speaker 1: seventeen fifty eight, because that's when the comment was around um.

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Speaker 1: But some seers said that it pretended a conqueror and

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Speaker 1: the baby was almost killed because as we know, most

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Speaker 1: rulers don't like to hear that there's a little baby

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Speaker 1: being born. He might be the new king, asked Karen,

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Speaker 1: So it seems like a good idea to get rid

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Speaker 1: of him before anything happened. But he was snuck away

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Speaker 1: and raised by another family and grows up and he

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Speaker 1: got his new name, Kamamea, which means the lonely one.

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Speaker 1: But eventually he was able to come out of fighting.

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Speaker 1: He'd made it very clear that he wanted to be

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Speaker 1: of service to the people who are in power, and

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Speaker 1: the higher ups to recognize that. And there were other

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Speaker 1: omens of his greatness, according to stories and not necessarily

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Speaker 1: to history, reminiscent of the sword and the stone, there

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Speaker 1: is something called the Naja stone, which weighs two and

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Speaker 1: a half tons, and the story went that if you

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Speaker 1: could move it, you would be the person to unite

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Speaker 1: the islands, and supposedly command they had did, but in

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Speaker 1: the meantime we have a lot of other events going on.

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Speaker 1: And Europe had finally discovered Hawaii in seventeen seventy eight

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Speaker 1: when Captain James Cook arrived and he brought glass and

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Speaker 1: metal and nails and buttons and muskets and cannons, which

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Speaker 1: are two very importantly important things, and in return, Hawaii

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Speaker 1: had food like sweet potatoes and coconut and pork. And

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Speaker 1: Kamama was actually one of the first people to board

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Speaker 1: really impressed with this intelligent observe of an inquisitive young man.

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Speaker 1: And this is a fairly peaceful introduction of Europeans two Hawaiians.

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Speaker 1: But theft became a problem fairly early on, and after

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Speaker 1: an incident of a stolen boat, Cook and some of

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Speaker 1: his men tried to kidnap a chief for its ransom

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Speaker 1: on February seventy nine, and they were killed with daggers

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Speaker 1: that they had given to the people, and the Hawaiians

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Speaker 1: took their weapons for their own, and these muskets changed

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Speaker 1: warfare for the Hawaiians and merchants aided and abetted the

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Speaker 1: arms race because they could sell to one group and

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Speaker 1: then they could sell to their enemies, and though those

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Speaker 1: groups might kill each other, the merchants would be making

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Speaker 1: realize it too, But it's it's his key to ultimately

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Speaker 1: thought of him. When King Klannio Poo died in seventy two, Kamehameha,

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Speaker 1: his nephew, wasn't the first in line to succeed his

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Speaker 1: cousin kila Oh was with his cousin Koa also taking

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Speaker 1: guardian of the family war god, which says something for

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Speaker 1: how he was viewed. Of course, the war god is

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Speaker 1: not just any god, but this is where the trouble

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Speaker 1: himself falls during this fight and a fisherman hits him

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Speaker 1: that's that you shouldn't attack peaceful people, and it ultimately

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Speaker 1: the Splintered Paddle, appropriately enough, which gave a certain amount

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Speaker 1: In seventeen ninety, a ship called the Fair American arise

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Speaker 1: the next one that came in, and Fair American, you

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Speaker 1: are that unlucky one. Everyone on the ship was beaten

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Speaker 1: Isaac Davis. But Davis wasn't alone on this rescue boat.

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Speaker 1: There had been another white man, captured, John Young earlier

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Speaker 1: and he ruled Oahu, Maui and Molochai and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: someone to mess with. He got oah who in the

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Speaker 1: and then making a house frame of their bones. In

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years. So he's using very modern

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Speaker 1: techniques and ultimately he conquers. But there's problem. While he

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Speaker 1: which is not the William Brown approach. As we will see.

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Speaker 1: Then we have a twist. Kah kil dies in seventeen

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Speaker 1: So Klonipa is not very grateful though about Brown, called

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