What Were The Positive Effects Of The Mahele

The Mahele was created so that land in Hawaii could be brought. The Mahele brought many positive effects but, it also brought a lot of negative effects. The Mahele came to because King Kamehameha didn’t want Hawaii to be taken by force to become annexed to another Country. Hawaii had been taken by force before by the British because of a man named Paulet (Potter, Kasdon, and Rayson 85). The Mahele was unjust because Hawaiians didn’t have enough money for the land taxes, the Hawaiians were unexperienced in land laws, and children suffered from lack of resources (Hio). One of the political impact was the Hawaiians ended up losing land because the couldn’t meet the deadline and couldn’t pay up the taxes to keep the land. All the foreigners had money when they came and the Hawaiians always shared land and never believed in owning land. Only the Hawaiians with no land were able to use a part of land set aside for them but, if they did own land then the Hawaiians with land couldn't use them. Most of their land had an poor environment which meant there was no fire wood, and freshwater streams and other places to gather

Even if the Hawaiians did have land their taro patches, and other crops were taken away. Also the Hawaiians were not experienced in these kind of matters at hand. They believe that the land was owned by the gods but, their beliefs changed rapidly and right before their eyes. Even if the king did divide the land for the Makai’ na na the other ali’is would not let them access other lands for more resources(Cachala, Jean/Wata). Other land agents take advantage of this and give the Hawaiians land that is hard to grow crops on and they raise the prices on the Hawaiians so that the land is given to other Foreigners and not to the