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.

Treaty with the Union of the Pacific Nations and the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi; customary and hereditary leaders of Pacific island nations, together styled the Union of Pacific Nations (TMAK)

Treaty Register

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Treaty with the Union of the Pacific Nations and the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

Signed: 8 September 2010
Effective: —
Coordinates: 22.0764, -159.3190

Counterparties

Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi; customary and hereditary leaders of Pacific island nations, together styled the Union of Pacific Nations (TMAK)

Signatories, as named on the instrument

Teataura — President of TMAK (Union of Pacific Nations), Ariki Nui of Polynesia
Eusebio Euki Cepana Auki — Rapa Nui
Nalako — Fiji
Teremoana Tumutoa — Rarotonga
Noeke Tumutoa — Mangaiʻa
Hikija — Tuvalu
Tafe Vaisigano Ausi Pasi Tuimao — Samoa
Parali Ioane — Rurutu
Tapu Tagaroa — Tuamotu
Kuluvet Taulanga — Tonga
Dayne Aleka Aipoalani, Aliʻi Nui of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

Summary

A declaration signed at Kapaʻa on 8 September 2010 by Aliʻi Nui Aleka Aipoalani for the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi and by signatories who signed in their customary capacities — an Ariki Nui of Polynesia and paramount, hereditary and customary leaders from Rapa Nui, Fiji, Rarotonga, Mangaiʻa, Tuvalu, Samoa, Rurutu, Tuamotu and Tonga, together styled the Union of Pacific Nations (TMAK). By it the undersigned recognise the right of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi to exist peacefully in perpetuity and undertake to honour and support its human rights, civil liberties and political autonomy. That recognition holds between the signing parties, under their own customary authority. The signatories did not sign for the governments of the states in which their islands lie, and the document does not record any approval or authorisation by those governments.

Transcription of the legible text

Treaty Of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi Greetings and Aloha Whereas, with the intent to restore rightful self determination to the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi (the Hawaiian Kingdom of the Kamehameha dynasty); to re-establish autonomous self-governance of this island nation; to promote the health, welfare and liberty of all Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) and non-Hawaiian people residing therein, in order to allow such inhabitants, of every ethnicity and culture, to enjoy their well deserved and divinely appointed freedoms, to freely express their cultures, honor their ancestral lands and preserve their rights to life, liberty and self-determination; and with a desire to promote perpetual peace, friendship and re-establish reciprocal commerce between this island nation, and other recognized nations of the world, We, the undersigned, solemnly swear to honor and support the human rights, civil liberties and political autonomy of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi, recognizing its right to peacefully exist, in perpetuity. Signed September 8th, 2010, in Kapaa, Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi. Pacta sunt Servanda — "Sacred Pacts are to be Honored and Respected"

Transcribed from the held copy. Parts of the document — noted on the record — could not be read reliably and are not reproduced here.

Region on the Diplomatic Map

This instrument is part of the Kingdom's Kapaa, Kauai engagements. Return to the atlas to explore nearby engagements.

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Classification and Effect

This record is classified as multilateral-treaty. Every instrument is listed under the title written on the document itself. Classification describes the character of the instrument; it never replaces, shortens, or restates the original title.

Recognition between Indigenous signatories is recognition between those parties. It is real, and it is binding upon them according to their own governance and protocol. It does not automatically constitute recognition by Canada, the United States, New Zealand, France, Chile, the United Nations, or any other third-party state or intergovernmental organisation, none of which is a party to these instruments.