The Great Mahele: The Great Divide Target: Describe the factors (people, issues, events, etc.) that influenced the people of the Mahele in their decision.

The Great Mahele:The Great Divide

Target: Describe the factors (people, issues, events, etc.) that influenced the people of the Mahele in their decision

making

The Aina

• Before European contact, private ownership of land was an unknown concept in the islands– Hawaiians reinforce the idea of land stewardship,

rather than ownership

The basic Hawaiian land unit was the Ahupua’a, a self sufficient, portion of land, which incorporated both agricultural and ocean resource.

AHUPUA’A

Kamehameha I was the first to give lands away

• John Parker- Cattle lands• John Young and Issac Davis- Kamehameha I advisors• After the Kam. I dies, the kapu system of land

distribution ends.

John YoungJohn Palmer Parker

Liholiho allows Kamehameha I chiefs and foreigners to retain land

• Land holdings increase for lower chiefs and foreigners

• Ka’ahumanu Oks land distribution to missionaries

In 1825, Kamehameha III ascends to the throne at age 12

• A council of high chiefs allows lower or smaller chiefs to retain their lands, and permit hereditary succession of land.

• What does this mean?

• In 1840, Kam. III writes a constitution that defines land entitlement as follows:– Rights of the land belongs to the chiefs and all the

people, with the King as trustee• What does this mean?

Foreigners pressure

• Foreigners increase pressure on Kamehameha III to change land tenureship and to protect their agricultural interest and gowth

Theo H. DavisAlexander

Cartwright

Vocabulary. Post it activity: copy the word on the post it and write the definition on the paperand use it in a sentence,

then cover it with the post it.

• Stewardship- the duties and obligations of a steward over the environment

• Fee-simple- to purchase land for private ownership

• Tenureship- the holding or possessing of anything

• Entitlement- having a right to something.

The Great Mahele

• Activity: If you were King or Queen, how would you divide Hawai’i’s land? Make a circle graph dividing the lands of the kingdom, by percentage, among the king, chiefs and the commoners. Find a distribution that is fair to all three parties. Discuss this with your partner about the land distribution. You should come to a consensus and explain why you divided the lands that way.

The Great Mahele of 1848 - 1850

• Who should possess four million acres of land? (left column under . . .Mahele)

• Read and write an appropriate response to each of the plan below (cornell notes)

Plan I Plan II Plan III

Kuleana Act of 1850

• It authorized the Land Commission to award fee simple title to native Hawaiians who occupied and cultivated any portion of the crown, government or konohiki land. But they must prove ownership by:

1. Land survey2. File a claim w/ LC3. Prove that the land

being claimed can earned a living

Konohiki- a headman of a Hawaiian land division

ON the left side, create a circle graph of the Kuleana Act and label them with the correct data and information. Create a key. See example

Title: ___________

KEY: %GROUPS AMOUNTKING/QUEENCHIEFSGovernmentCOMMONERS

TOTAL LANDUSE: _________

Reason/explanation:

Left side of notebook

Homework: Bernice Pauahi Bishop

• Reade the story of Bernice Pauahi, and answer the 5 Ws of the Historical Event organizer with relevant and important information.

whoWhat

Where Why

When

Driving Question

Title: Name of Person