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In Hawaii after 1778 they were exposed to outside diseases that led to a massive decline in the Native Hawaiian population over the next 125 years.  Going on later more towards the time were in right now they very known well for their surgery and their pineapple.

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Until European contact, Hawai`i was a highly stratified society with strictly maintained castes. The ali`i (chiefs) headed the social pyramid and ruled over the land. Highly regarded and sometimes feared, the kahuna (professionals) were experts on religious ritual or specialists in canoe-building, herbal medicine, and healing. The maka`ainana (commoners) farmed and fished; built walls, houses, and fishponds; and paid taxes to the paramount chiefs and his chiefs. Kauwa, the lowest class, were outcasts or slaves. Later in Hawaiian history, a united Kingdom of Hawai'i emerged under King Kamehameha I and subsequent kings and queens.

A system of laws known as kanawai enforced the social order. Certain people, places, things, and times were sacred-they were kapu, or forbidden. Women ate apart from men and were restricted from eating pork, coconuts, bananas, or a variety of other foods. Kapu regulated fishing, planting, and the harvesting of other resources, thus ensuring their conservation. Any breaking of kapu disturbed the stability of society; the punishment often was death.

Prior to European contact Native Hawaiian rulers divided the Hawaiian Islands into distinct political regions. On each of the four larger islands-Kaua'i, O'ahu, Maui, and Hawai'i-lands were divided into wedge-shaped districts called moku.

The moku were further divided into land sections called ahupua'a. Ahupua'a were often bounded by ridgelines and typically encompassed an entire valley from mountain summit to outer reef. This type of land division allowed for each ahupua'a to contain nearly all the resources that its inhabitants required for survival.

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Laws, Governance & Social Structure - Hawai'i (U.S. National Park Service)

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Until European contact, Hawai`i was a highly stratified society with strictly maintained castes. The ali`i (chiefs) headed the social pyramid and ruled over the land. Highly regarded and sometimes feared, the kahuna (professionals) were experts on religious ritual or specialists in canoe-building, herbal medicine, and healing.

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Recognition of Hawaiian Independence

Faced with the quintessential problem of foreign encroachment of Hawaiian territory, His Hawaiian Majesty King Kamehameha III deemed it prudent and necessary to dispatch a Hawaiian delegation to the United States and then to Europe with the power to settle alleged difficulties with nations, negotiate treaties and to ultimately secure the recognition of Hawaiian Independence by the major powers of the world. In accordance with this view, Timoteo Ha'alilio, William Richards and Sir George Simpson were commissioned as joint Ministers Plenipotentiary on April 8, 1842. Sir George Simpson, shortly thereafter, left for England, via Alaska and Siberia, while Mr. Ha'alilio and Mr. Richards departed for the United States, via Mexico, on July 8, 1842.

The Hawaiian delegation, while in the United States of America, secured the assurance of U.S. President Tyler on December 19, 1842 of its recognition of Hawaiian independence, and then proceeded to meet Sir George Simpson in Europe and secure formal recognition by Great Britain and France. On March 17, 1843, King Louis-Phillipe of France recognizes Hawaiian independence at the urging of King Leopold of Belgium, and on April 1, 1843, Lord Aberdeen on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, assured the Hawaiian delegation that

"Her Majesty's Government was willing and had determined to recognize the independence of the Sandwich Islands under their present sovereign."

On November 28, 1843, at the Court of London, the British and French Governments entered into a formal agreement of the recognition of Hawaiian independence.

"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage, reciprocally, to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, neither directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.

The undersigned, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador Extraordinary of His Majesty the King of the French, at the Court of London, being furnished with the necessary powers, hereby declare, in consequence, that their said Majesties take reciprocally that engagement.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present declaration, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done in duplicate at London, the 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1843.

[L.S.] Aberdeen
[L.S.] St. Aulaire"

View page 1 and page 2 of the original Anglo-French Proclamation from the United Kingdom archives.

On July 6, 1846, U.S. Secretary of State John C. Calhoun, on behalf of President Tyler, afforded formal recogntion of Hawaiian independence. As a result of the recognition of Hawaiian independence the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into treaties with the major nations of the world and established over ninety legations and consulates in multiple seaports and cities.

Austria-Hungary in 1875

Belgium in 1862

Bremen in 1851

Denmark in 1846

France in 1857

Germany in 1879

Great Britain in 1851

Hamburg in 1848

Italy in 1863

Japan in 1871

Japan Convention in 1886

Hawaiian-Japanese Executive Agreement Rescinding Consular Jurisdiction in 1893/94

Luxembourg in 1862, William III, King of the Netherlands was also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Netherlands in 1862

New South Wales Postal Convention in 1874

Portugal in 1882

Russia in 1869

Samoa in 1887

Spain in 1863

Swiss Confederation in 1864

Sweden and Norway in 1852

Tahitian Postal Convention in 1853

United States of America in 1849, 1875, 1883, 1884

Universal Postal Union in 1885 with Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, the United States of Colombia, the Republic of Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of Honduras, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Persia (Iran), Portugal, Romania, Russia, El Salvador, Serbia, the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand), Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States of Venezuela.

International Criminal Court (November 28, 2012). On December 10, 2012, the insrument of accession was deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations acceding to the Rome Statute accepting jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, over Hawaiian territory. Jurisdiction will commence March 4, 2013.

1949 Geneva Convention, IV (November 28, 2012) On January 14, 2013, the instrument of accession was deposited with the Swiss Federal Council, by its Foreign Ministry, whereby the Hawaiian Kingdom is a High Contracting Party. The Fouth Geneva Convention immediately took effect on January 14, 2013 as a result of the prolonged occupation.

1977 Protocol Additional to the Geveva Conventions of 12 August 1949 relating to Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol 1) (December 11, 2013) On December 16, 2013, the instrument of accession was deposited with the Swiss Federal Council, by its Foreign Ministry, whereby the Hawaiian Kingdom is a High Contracting Party. Protocol 1 immediately took effect on December 16, 2013 as a result of the prolonged occupation.

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Hawaiian Kingdom - International Treaties

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The Web site of the acting Hawaiian Kingdom Government presently operating within the occupied State of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Hawaiians would base their economic system on feudalism. They would grow Taro, sweet potatoes, yams and would work together with their own family group or ohana to sustain themselves.

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"Economic History of Hawaii" https://oxfordre.com/economics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.001.0001/acrefore-9780190625979-e-687#:~:text=Between%201778%20and%201870%2C%20two,and%20a%20massive%20population%20decline.

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"Hawaiian religion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_religion#:~:text=Hawaiian%20religion%20is%20polytheistic%2C%20with,as%20%CA%BBaumakua%20that%20protected%20family.

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"Historical Background: Westernization of Hawaiian Islands" https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/hawaiian_pacific_islander/fund/historical_background.html#:~:text=In%201778%2C%20Captain%20James%20Cook,gods%20for%20hundreds%20of%20years.

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In 1810 Europeans established the first formal king who would govern with common law which had aspects of kapu the  Hawaiians original laws. This way of governing Hawaii lasted until 1839 which marked Hawaii signing The Declaration of rights officials leaving the ancient ways of governing behind. This system of kings would last until 1891 with Queen Lili'uokalani who was overthrown by revolutionaries becoming an oligarchy.

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In 1770's the religion hawaiians originally had was polylistic. Polylistic means they worship more than one god. The gods they worshiped were called Kū, Kāne, Lono, Kanaloa. In hawaiian familess it is considered to have one or more guardian spirits known as ʻaumakua that help protect their family.

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Hawaiians lived an organized life with Kings who had  ownership over all the land call that land was also controlled by the alinui or the high chiefs who tended the land with the help of kanaka or commoners. To keep the population in control Hawaiians would enforce a system of laws called kanawai also called kapu these taboos would affect how people would live their lives if broken the punishment was often death.

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In 1778 an English explorer by the name of Cook came to the islands and put these islands on a map. Cook called these islands hawaii. As he got to the islands he had a religion called christianity which is monotheistic. monotheistic is when you worship one god. With the changes of going to christianity they had some problems. Their problems were changes in diet, a significant loss of population due to foreign diseases, and had a long lasting and often devastating effect on the Hawaiian population.