Hawaii's Last Queen

A heated pot full of medieval wastefulness, ethnic pride, and the control of big business.

How would her dealings with the white business owners have been different had the missionaries not introduced the element of "white" culture?  Would her position have been further undermined?  I speculate that she would have been viewed more as a savage enemy if the missionaries had not introduced the cultural element.  Would it have also led to a more confrontational attitude on the part of Lili'uokalani?  I would imagine not, as her primary motivation for peaceful opposition was vested in the interests of the safety of the Hawaiian natives.

Would a more diplomatic approach to solving the problem of disease entering Hawaii through immigrant workers other than closing the port have yielded better results?  The limits to having a diplomatic approach in this instance is that the white business owners were already in the business of exploitation, and thus the health and safety of a "lower" population would not have been of sizable interest to them.  Could Lili'uokalani have perhaps offered more generous cooperation in exchange for the implementation of medical screening policies?  The practice of introducing foreign labour to bolster western markets was still young and undeveloped at the time in terms of ethics and policy, so such an attempt would not have had as much of a chance of succeeding as it would have later on.

What were the perspectives on the foreign labour by the native Hawaiians?  To what extent was discrimination against foreign labour present amongst the native Hawaiian population?  Could the laborers have been seen as "devils" due the the sicknesses they brought with them?  Quite possibly.