Hawaiian Investigation: Exhibits, memorials, petitions, and letters presented to the Committee PDF Download

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
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Author: UNITED STATES. CONGRESS
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ISBN: 9780265237427
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 1460

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Contains 1840 Hawaiian constitution and laws, hearings before the Hawaiian Fire Commission for losses incurred in fire to eliminate bubonic plague in Honolulu, and other exhibits.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 1526

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Author: Anwei Skinsnes Law
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824865804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Between 1866 and 1969, an estimated 8,000 individuals—at least 90 percent of whom were Native Hawaiians—were sent to Molokai’s remote Kalaupapa peninsula because they were believed to have leprosy. Unwilling to accept the loss of their families, homes, and citizenship, these individuals ensured they would be accorded their rightful place in history. They left a powerful testimony of their lives in the form of letters, petitions, music, memoirs, and oral history interviews. Kalaupapa combines more than 200 hours of interviews with archival documents, including over 300 letters and petitions written by the earliest residents translated from Hawaiian. It has long been assumed that those sent to Kalaupapa were unconcerned with the world they were forced to leave behind. The present work shows that residents remained actively interested and involved in life beyond Kalaupapa. They petitioned the Hawaii Legislative Assembly in 1874, seeking justice. They fervently supported Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom prior to annexation and contributed to the relief effort in Europe following World War I. In 1997 Kalaupapa residents advocated at the United Nations together with people affected by leprosy from around the world. This book presents at long last the story of Kalaupapa as told by its people.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1794

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 860

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1766

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Author: Alvita Akiboh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226828484
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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"Alvita Akiboh's book reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in its territories, whether stamps, flags, or currency. These objects are economic and symbolic, but they also encode the relationships between territories-including the Philippines, the Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, and Palau-and the empire with which they are entangled. Akiboh shows how such items became objects of local power, transmogrifying their original intent. For even if imperial territories were not always front and center for federal lawmakers and administrators, the people living there remained continuously aware of the imperial United States, whose presence announced itself on every bit of currency, every stamp, and the local flag"--