The Great Mahele all started in 1848 and it changed everything. All of their lifestyles, traditions, and resources were no longer existing. Before the Mahele, there was no land ownership, but land was controlled by a king, or mo’i. However, in western cultures, land was owned (Cachola, Jean/wata); for the earliest system, the ali’i, or chiefs would provide the commoners with plots of land in exchange for taxes and portions of food they produced from different resources. Furthermore, foreigners believed that the more land they had, they could become more successful, have more resources, and have more citizens to farm, protect, and manage the land. The Great Mahele benefited the foreigners by land ownership and Kamehameha III credibility on foreigners (Borreca). An impact of how the Great Mahele aided the foreigners is land distribution. This had a big impact on the Hawaiians because this allowed the foreigners to buy land. Even though the Mahele supposed to split among all the people fairly that are living on the islands, that did not work out for the foreigners. The Mahele allowed the foreigners to come to Hawai’i and claim Hawaiians lands, so, the foreigners decided to claim almost all of the lands. When the foreigners claimed and bought the land, it messed everything up for the …show more content…
By 1840, the foreigners had been arriving to Hawai’i and were largely impacting the Hawaiians. King Kamehameha III, who was ruler at this time, was fascinated by how the foreigners could benefit the Hawaiians and soon made a few of them his royal advisors. In 1841, however, King Kamehameha III felt pressured so he decided to offer the foreigner’s long-term leases of land, a contract where a person rents land for a period of time. Kamehameha the III hoped that it would satisfy the foreigners because he didn’t want foreigners thinking that he was selfish