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School For Hawaiian Girls

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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 Hawai‘i, 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 Hawai‘i, 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.

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