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Calling forth images of conquest and violence, settler colonialism has been characterized a dichotomous structure of power relations that privileges Whites while denying indigenes their autonomy, ancestral territory, and livelihoods. Considered the impetus for racism, settler colonialism is also understood as disadvantaging people of color, thus facilitating a White/non- White binary. Using 45 in-depth interviews with people from Hawai'i, I question the portrayal of settler colonialism as an explicit, dichotomized struggle. Specifically, this study examines how people of color in Hawai'i concurrently contribute to the marginalization of Native Hawaiians through the use of a seemingly multicultural ideology of "aloha" that erases Hawai'i's colonial history. This paper indicates that as settler societies incorporate increasingly diverse nonindigenous populations, the matter of who is a colonist and the ideas through which colonialism is manifested becomes nuanced and harder to ascertain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]