School For Hawaiian Girls
Photograph: A student at Kohala Seminary on
the Island of Hawai'i,
about 1912. R. J. Baker. Hawai'i State Archives.
Within 100 years of arriving in
Hawaii, the missionaries and their families had overthrown the
native kingdom and, by 1922, dominated the economy with their expanding
sugar plantations. In rural North Kohala on the island of Hawaii,
16-year-old Lydia Kaluhi decided to break free from this suffocating
grip. Promising to keep secret her plan, her brother Sam was the last
person to see her alive - never realizing the tragic events that lay
ahead.