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.

Press Kit

Official assets, biographical references, and usage guidelines for members of the press, academic researchers, and institutional historians reporting on the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi.

Office of Communications

Press & Institutional Contact

Press Inquiries

For interview requests, statements, fact-checking, and editorial coordination.

press@kingdomofatooi.com

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Official Biography

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani

Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani holds the office the Kingdom designates as its head of state, seated in the Hawaiian archipelago. The Royal House maintains that the office continues a genealogical line to the historical Hawaiian ruling houses and asserts continuity with the pre-1893 Hawaiian Kingdom, which the Kingdom holds was never lawfully extinguished. The office is internal to the Kingdom and carries no accreditation from any outside government.

The Aliʻi Nui has represented the Kingdom at customary gatherings of Polynesian nations, at sessions of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues attended by Kingdom delegations, and at institutional gatherings including the 2018 dialogues at the Vatican and the 2025 engagements in French Polynesia. The Kingdom holds no accreditation or consultative status with the United Nations, and this attendance is not recognition by the United Nations or any member state. He maintains direct nation-to-nation relations with indigenous and sovereign Polynesian and First Nation peoples under the 2018 First American Native Alliance (FANA) Nation-to-Nation Accords.

Style on first reference: "Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi." Subsequent references: "the Aliʻi Nui." Filed in the Diplomatic Archive under reference KOA-PRESS-BIO.

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About the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

The Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi is an Indigenous governance institution in the Polynesian tradition, seated in the Hawaiian archipelago. It maintains customary relations with Indigenous nations and has engaged with institutions of the United Nations system since 2013. The Kingdom advances the legal position that the Hawaiian Kingdom was never lawfully extinguished and that it continues that constitutional and genealogical line. That continuity position is contested, is not the controlling legal position of the United States, and has not resulted in formal recognition of the Kingdom by any UN member state or intergovernmental organisation.

Press are invited to use this boilerplate verbatim or in faithful summary. The seal, the historic flag, and the title of Aliʻi Nui are official symbols and protected under the Terms of Use of the Kingdom.

Authorised Assets

Visual Assets for Editorial Use

PNG · Transparent

Royal Seal of the Kingdom

Editorial use only. Reproduction permitted in news, academic, and institutional contexts with attribution. Commercial use prohibited without written authorisation.

JPG · High Resolution

Portrait of the Aliʻi Nui

Editorial use only. Caption must read: "Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani, Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi."

JPG · High Resolution

Historic Flag — Iolani Palace Raising

Editorial use with attribution to the Royal Archive of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi.

Conditions of Use

Reproduction Rights

Editorial use — reproduction in news, academic, and institutional contexts is permitted with attribution to the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi.
Commercial use — reproduction in connection with the sale of goods or services, advertising, or merchandise requires the written authorisation of the Office of the Aliʻi Nui.
The Royal Seal — may not be altered, recoloured, or combined with other marks in a manner that misrepresents the position of the Kingdom.
The Historic Flag — reproduction in connection with displays of solidarity with the Hawaiian Kingdom and the indigenous peoples of the Pacific is invited and welcomed.

Full conditions are set out in the Terms of Use. Filed in the Diplomatic Archive under reference KOA-PRESS-KIT.