Is there any context to how native Hawaiians felt about the U.S annexing Hawaii? It was a made a territory before hand in the late 1800s, and granted statehood after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the end of WWII. I have to imagine there was some resentment as towards the U.S. as they would have otherwise would not have been involved in the war.
For some background previously after the Bayonet constitution took place (where the Hawaiian Monarchy was overthrown by the Honolulu Rifles) the islands were made into a territory. This primarily benefitted The Big 5 (The Big Five were Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors (now Amfac), and Theo H. Davies & Co.) sugarcane plantation owners and placed the Republican Party in power in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954 was a grassroots campaign run by several people but the most prominent of them was John Burns "the Burns Machine" the Democratic Revolution placed the Democrats in power over the Republicans and also demanded similar pay and protections to laborers, agriculture and longshoremen; the primary business in Hawai'i at the time. The big 5 plantation owners held power and also avoided labor strikes by essentially brining in another nationality of workers if one group started to strike. Japanese, Filipino and Chinese workers as well as Native Hawaiians were all common on the plantations (and this mixing of languages is also the source of Hawaiian Pigin).
A lot of these workers came to the islands and had children who were then able to vote, and eventually the Republican party began to get voted out in elections in 1950 & 54. Also during this time John Burns persuaded returning Japanese/American veterans to use their GI Bills to get educated and return and run for office in the islands, Daniel Inouye was one of the first, if not the, of these people.
In the background strikes and labor movements were going on as well in large part helped by the ILWU. Native Hawaiian were on both sides of this divide, as the social strata in Hawaii was essentially organized by how light or dark one's skin was. Lighter being higher in social status.
Their is a lot more background but overall 93% of voters favored statehood in the vote in 1959 to make Hawaii a state.
Additional Sources:
Lost Kingdom, Juli Flynn Siler
Shoal of Time, Gaven Dawes