Hawaii History: (from "Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism" by Noenoe K. Silva, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2004) Conservative estimates of Hawaii's population in 1778 range from 400,000 to 1,000,000; just forty five years later, in 1823, that number was reduced to about 135,000 due to disease. The first epidemic, called ma'i'oku'u [...]