School system.”(Kamehameha Schools) The founder of these schools was a princess named Bernice Pauahi Bishop. She started to see the native Hawaiian population going down; in just a few years the population went down almost 40%. Pauahi felt “felt responsible and accountable” ( Kamehameha). In 1883 she inherited money from her cousin. She got five other people to invest in her school by the names of, Charles Reed Bishop, Samuel Mills Damon, William Owen Smith, Charles Montague Cooke and Charles McEwen
Many stories about kind, beautiful, loving, and caring princesses are just fairy tales. But, the story of Bernice Pauahi Bishop is no fiction, and it’s better than all the other princess stories combined. Bernice Pauahi [puh-wuh-hee] Bishop wasn’t just a princess of Hawaiʻi [huh-vai-ee], she was a heroine. She was benevolent, selfless, compassionate, firm in her beliefs, and never stopped finding ways to give back to her community. According to philanthropyroundtable.org, she led the Stranger’s Friend