Last month September was “Hawaiian History” month, and Dr. Keanu Sai was invited present four episodes of Hawaiian history on KITV television show Island Life Live News. These historical episodes are covered in Dr. Sai’s chapter “Hawai‘i’s Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire” that was published in December of 2024 by Oxford University Press.

In his chapter, Dr. Sai covers: the legal and political history of the Hawaiian Kingdom; the evolution of governance as a constitutional monarchy; the unlawful overthrow of the government by United States troops in 1893; the prolonged American occupation since 1893; the restoration of the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1997; and the recognition, by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1999, of the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State and the Council of Regency as its provisional government.