Kingdom of Hawaii

In 1993, the United States Senate passed the Apology Resolution, which apologized "for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 17, 1893 with the participation of agents and citizens of the United States" and acknowledged that "the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their national lands to the United States, either through their monarchy or through a plebiscite or referendum." Opposition to the U.S. annexation of Hawaii played a major role in the creation of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, which calls for Hawaiian independence from American rule.