What is the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi?

The Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi is an Indigenous governing body based on Kauaʻi, formed in its present constitution in 1990. It holds that it continues the lineage and legal standing of the Hawaiian Kingdom. That is the Kingdom's own position; it is not a member or observer of the United Nations and holds no instrument of recognition from any state.

Who is the Aliʻi Nui of the Kingdom of Atooi?

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani is Head of State as designated by the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi. The Kingdom maintains a genealogical claim to the aliʻi of Kauaʻi; that lineage is held in Kingdom and custodial records and is not established by an independent published genealogy in this archive.

What is the Kingdom's position on the 1893 overthrow?

United States Public Law 103-150 (1993) acknowledges that the 1893 overthrow occurred without the consent of the Native Hawaiian people. The Kingdom's position is that Hawaiian sovereignty was therefore never lawfully extinguished. The United States position is that Hawaiʻi is a state of the Union, and no court has ruled in the Kingdom's favour on this question. UNDRIP addresses Indigenous peoples generally and is not a recognition instrument.

How is the Kingdom of Atooi related to King Kamehameha and the Hawaiian Kingdom?

The Kingdom asserts descent from the aliʻi lines of the pre-unification kingdoms of Hawaiʻi, and maintains treaties, decrees and a ceremonial record. These are Kingdom-held records; the archive labels each with its evidence class rather than presenting them as independently verified.

Royal Decree Presented in French Polynesia

June 27, 2025 — Papeʻete, Tahiti. Royal Decree on Peace, Friendship and Diplomacy signed by His Majesty Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani and presented for record at a range of French Polynesian administrative, judicial, and customary offices.

Date

June 27, 2025

Location

Papeete, Tahiti

Signed By

HM Aleka Aipoalani

Reference

KOA-FP-2025-06-27

Diplomatic Record

Royal Decree on Peace, Friendship and Diplomacy

On June 27, 2025, His Majesty Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani signed a Royal Decree on Peace, Friendship and Diplomacy in Papeʻete. Copies of the decree were carried to the twelve French Polynesian administrative, judicial, and customary offices listed below, where each in turn received and date-stamped a copy for record. The date-stamped receipt copies are held in the Diplomatic Archive under reference KOA-FP-2025-06-27.

The decree invokes the 1817–1823 Maupiti alliance between the royal houses of the Pacific, commissions a Pacific Cultural Embassy network across the islands of Polynesia, and calls for the integration of the Kingdom's Kala digital-currency and biometric-identity systems as instruments of indigenous economic participation. The Kingdom reads the reciprocal stamping as evidence that its instruments are received and logged by another administration.

The stamped receipt documents official receipt of the instrument; it does not by itself establish diplomatic recognition by the government of French Polynesia or by France.

“These reciprocal stamps prove that our diplomatic instruments are neither symbolic nor ignored; they are received, logged and preserved by another sovereign administration.”

HM Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani · Papeete · June 27, 2025

Offices That Received the Decree

French Polynesian Offices Where the Decree Was Presented for Record

Office of the High Commissioner of the French Republic

Office of the Presidency of French Polynesia

Gendarmerie Command

CESC (Conseil Économique, Social et Culturel)

DTPN (Direction des Transports et de la Police de la Navigation)

Territorial Assembly of French Polynesia

IEOM (Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer)

Public Treasury

SPCPF (Syndicat pour la Promotion des Communes de Polynésie française)

Court of First Instance of Papeete

Regional Customs

Commune Town Halls of Tahiti

Provision I

Invocation of the 1817–1823 Maupiti Alliance

The decree invokes the historic alliance first concluded at Maupiti between 1817 and 1823 among the royal houses of Polynesia, restating its principles of mutual acknowledgement, peace, and cultural reciprocity within a contemporary framework. The invocation is the Kingdom's own.

Provision II

Pacific Cultural Embassy Network

The decree commissions the establishment of a network of "Pacific Cultural Embassies", charged in its own terms with safeguarding indigenous knowledge systems, ceremonial protocols, and inter-island exchange across Polynesia. The archive holds no record of any such office having been established or hosted, and the term as used here does not denote a diplomatic mission under the Vienna Convention.

Provision III

Kala Digital Currency & Biometric Identity Integration

The decree calls, in its own terms, for the integration of the Kingdom's Kala digital-currency and biometric-identity systems as instruments of indigenous economic participation, identification, and trans-Pacific exchange. This is an instruction issued under the Kingdom's internal law; the Kala is not legal tender in any state.

Presented for Record

Detail gallery from the French Polynesia file

Plate II · Arrival reception · Journey documentation · Faaʻa International Airport, Tahiti
Presented for record as documentation of delegation arrival and reception in Tahiti, included here as part of the journey record surrounding the decree presentation.
Credit:Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi Archive

Plate III · Regional Polynesian context · Archival companion image · Polynesian relationship archive
Presented for record to situate the 2025 decree within the Kingdom's wider Polynesian relationship network and ceremonial diplomacy across the Pacific.
Credit:Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi Archive

Plate IV · HM Aliʻi Nui · 27 June 2025 · Kauaʻi
Presented for record as an official portrait associated with the 2025 French Polynesia decree file and its accompanying diplomatic materials.
Credit:Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi Archive

Archival Source

SADR Media — “Signed & Registered Royal Decree Re-Affirms Hawaiian Kingdom Sovereignty,” July 7, 2025. Filed in the Diplomatic Archive of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi under reference KOA-FP-2025-06-27. Papeete, Tahiti — 17.5516° S, 149.5585° W.