It wasn’t called Louisiana before the French named it that, I was just having fun with the way you phrased to things

Louisiana

Now France has entered the chat too! But yes, your point that history gets messy depending on the lense being used remains (at least, I hope I am not misrepresenting you)

Adding to this (and also, thank you for spelling out what I only hinted at): That last queen wrote a book to tell the story of what happened.

Her brother, who was the last king of Hawaii, wrote a book of Hawaiian mythology, too, that is worth checking out if that’s your bag.

Well, we sort of toppled an empire when we stole Hawaii, it literally was independent