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 : 1756

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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: Alvita Akiboh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226828476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism. In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in US territories, from the US dollar bill to the fifty-star flag. These symbolic objects encode the relationships between territories—including the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam—and the empire with which they have been entangled. Akiboh shows how such items became objects of local power, their original intent transmogrified. For even if imperial territories were not always front and center for federal lawmakers and administrators, their inhabitants remained continuously aware of the imperial United States, whose presence announced itself on every bit of currency, every stamp, and the local flag.

Author: Kealani Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108169147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries, diplomats, and travelers, shedding valuable light on the rich but understudied accounts of Hawaiians outside of Hawaiʻi. Native Hawaiian views of other islanders typically corresponded with their particular views and experiences of the Native Hawaiian past. The more positive their outlook, the more likely they were to seek cross-cultural connections. This is an important intervention in the growing field of Pacific and Oceanic history and the study of native peoples of the Americas, where books on indigenous Hawaiians are few and far between. Cook returns the study of Hawai'i to a central place in the history of cultural change in the Pacific.

Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Congressional Information Service
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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