Yes, the Polynesian-Hawaiians rioted when the very Merry Monarch Kalakaua was elected by the Legislature as it was well known he had bribed its members to get elected over the favorite Queen Emma, wife of Kam IV. Kalakaua and Queen Emma requested that the American and British ships in the harbor land troops to stop the violence and restore the peace. Which they did. Two men died.
Kalakaua and his sister Liliuokalani were looked on as usurpers, as they were Aikanaka clan, not Kamehamehas.
Ironically, that election would not have taken place if Kamehameha IV hadn't killed his only heir by putting his head under a faucet to stop the 4 year old Albert from throwing a tantrum over not being allowed to were a new pair of cowboy boots.  People today wonder why the Polynesians of the time did nothing to help Liliuokalani not be overthrown.  Because they didn't like her much.
Polynesians today care more than then, and want to tell the people who lived at the time what they should have wanted.