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E Ho’Omau Mākau, We Will Continue: The Living Sovereign Entities Of Contemporary Hawaiian Songs, Kēhaulani Lagunero Jun 2025

E Ho’Omau Mākau, We Will Continue: The Living Sovereign Entities Of Contemporary Hawaiian Songs, Kēhaulani Lagunero

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the relationship between contemporary Hawaiian mele (songs) and Hawaiian ea (sovereignty), focusing on how mele acts as sovereign living entities representing cultural resilience, identity, and resistance to settler-colonial influences. Through semi-structured interviews with Kānaka Maoli, participant observation at cultural events, and close analysis of mele, I identify that these songs are not only expressions of cultural memory, but also living embodiments of ea—sovereignty because they are alive, and they are alive because they are ea. Drawing from the frameworks of cultural survival, survivance, symbolic power, and defiant indigeneity, I explore how mele actively engage …


The Heart Of The University: Student Clubs And The American Colonization Of The Pacific, Eli Arnold Jan 2025

The Heart Of The University: Student Clubs And The American Colonization Of The Pacific, Eli Arnold

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Students have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to study at the University of Montana for over a century, and the contributions of these students deserve to be studied. This thesis explores the educational and community building roles that the historic International Club and Filipino Club, as well as the contemporary Pacific Islanders Club fulfilled. Students from the Philippines and Hawaiʻi provide clear examples of the potential for college campuses to be gathering places for broader community. This thesis is also a study of the global phenomenon of colonialism as seen from Filipino and Native Hawaiian students who travelled to Missoula …


The Role Of Native Hawaiian Spiritual Practices In Social Systems And Environmental Stewardship, Christina A. Hornbaker Jun 2022

The Role Of Native Hawaiian Spiritual Practices In Social Systems And Environmental Stewardship, Christina A. Hornbaker

Social Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Native Hawaiian spiritual practices played a role in social systems and stewardship practices. Lightfoot and colleagues (2013) suggest that more archaeological research is needed on traditional resources and environmental management practices. The authors point out that “landscape management practices… are subtle and not prone to leaving smoking guns in the archaeological record” (Lightfoot et al. 2013), which makes such sites difficult to document without ethnographic accounts. Due to this subtlety, I will mainly be pulling information from interviews or oral histories from Hawaiian descendants, early explorers and missionary accounts, ethnographers, and …


Impacts Of Invasive Rats On Hawaiian Cave Resources, Francis G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone Feb 2020

Impacts Of Invasive Rats On Hawaiian Cave Resources, Francis G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone

International Journal of Speleology

Although there are no published studies and limited data documenting damage by rodents in Hawaiian caves, our incidental observations during more than 40 years of surveying caves indicate that introduced rodents, especially the roof rat, Rattus rattus, pose significant threats to vulnerable cave resources. Caves, with their nearly constant and predictable physical environment often house important natural and cultural features including biological, paleontological, geological, climatic, mineralogical, cultural, and archaeological resources. All four invasive rodents in Hawai‘i commonly nest in cave entrances and rock shelters, but only the roof rat (Rattus rattus) habitually enters caves and utilizes areas …


Ethnic Intercession: Leadership At Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony, 1871–1887, Pennie Moblo Jun 1999

Ethnic Intercession: Leadership At Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony, 1871–1887, Pennie Moblo

Pacific Studies

Western notions of leadership can obscure the complexity of colonial history. This article examines ethnic relations in Hawai‘i via its Hansen’s disease colony during the years immediately preceding the overthrow of the monarchy. Popular accounts of Kalaupapa portray a nineteenth-century prison of iniquity where native Hawaiians, sequestered from the controls of civilization, degenerated to a state of “savagery” until a European priest saved them. This image is challenged by letters and reports to the Board of Health, which invoke an alternative history focused on the dialogue between native patients and foreign advisors in government. It is argued here that the …


J. Kehaulani Kauanui's Review Of Nâ Maka O Ka ‘Âina's Act Of War—The Overthrow Of The Hawaiian Nation And E Ola Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘I, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Jun 1999

J. Kehaulani Kauanui's Review Of Nâ Maka O Ka ‘Âina's Act Of War—The Overthrow Of The Hawaiian Nation And E Ola Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘I, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Contributors: Vol 22 No. 2, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Jun 1999

Contributors: Vol 22 No. 2, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 22 (1999): Pacific Studies Full Issue 2


Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Jun 1999

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 22, No 2 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal


Vol. 22 No. 2 (1999): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Jun 1999

Vol. 22 No. 2 (1999): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Kenneth P. Emory And “Herbert C. Shipman Cave”: A Long-Standing Puzzle Solved, Kevin Allred, Stephan Kempe, W. R. Halliday Mar 1999

Kenneth P. Emory And “Herbert C. Shipman Cave”: A Long-Standing Puzzle Solved, Kevin Allred, Stephan Kempe, W. R. Halliday

Pacific Studies

On 13 and 14 September 1945, Kenneth P. Emory of the Bishop Museum investigated what he later termed “Herbert C. Shipman Cave,” twelve miles from Hilo in the northern Puna District of Hawai‘i Island. His typescript of this investigation is frequently cited, but the cave remained unidentified until recently. In 1996 a Hawaii Speleological Survey team located a signature of Emory in the upper part of Keala Cave, at the site of a 1945 newspaper fragment previously found by another Hawaii Speleological Survey team. Other pukas explored and described by Emory as part of “Herbert C. Shipman Cave” unmistakably are …


Negotiating The Pō: The Hawai‘I International Film Festival, 8-15 November 1996, Alexander Mawyer Mar 1997

Negotiating The Pō: The Hawai‘I International Film Festival, 8-15 November 1996, Alexander Mawyer

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Adoption Of Christian Prayer In Native Hawaiian Pule, Kalena Silva Mar 1997

The Adoption Of Christian Prayer In Native Hawaiian Pule, Kalena Silva

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Ben Finney's Review Of Serge Dunis's Ethnologie D’Hawai‘I: “Homme De La Petite Eau, Femme De La Grande Eau”, Ben Finney Mar 1995

Ben Finney's Review Of Serge Dunis's Ethnologie D’Hawai‘I: “Homme De La Petite Eau, Femme De La Grande Eau”, Ben Finney

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Cave Of Refuge, Hakuma Horst, Kalapana, Puna District, Hawai‘I, Stephan Kempe, Christhild Ketz-Kempe, William R. Halliday, Marlin Spike Werner Jun 1993

The Cave Of Refuge, Hakuma Horst, Kalapana, Puna District, Hawai‘I, Stephan Kempe, Christhild Ketz-Kempe, William R. Halliday, Marlin Spike Werner

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Cave Of Refuge, Hakuma Horst, Kalapana, Puna District, Hawai‘I, Stephan Kempe, Christhild Ketz-Kempe, William R. Halliday, Marlin Spike Werner Jun 1993

The Cave Of Refuge, Hakuma Horst, Kalapana, Puna District, Hawai‘I, Stephan Kempe, Christhild Ketz-Kempe, William R. Halliday, Marlin Spike Werner

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


June Gutmanis's Review Of Gloria L. Cronin's Edition Of Harriet Ne's Tales Of Molokai: The Voice Of Harriet Ne. Collected And Prepared By Gloria L. Cronin, June Gutmanis Mar 1993

June Gutmanis's Review Of Gloria L. Cronin's Edition Of Harriet Ne's Tales Of Molokai: The Voice Of Harriet Ne. Collected And Prepared By Gloria L. Cronin, June Gutmanis

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 15, No 3 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal


Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Contributors: Vol 15 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Contributors: Vol 15 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 15 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue 3


Book Review Forum On Patricia Grimshaw's Paths Of Duty: American Missionary Wives In Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Claudia Knapman, John Young, Nancy F. Cott, Mary Catherine Bateson Sep 1992

Book Review Forum On Patricia Grimshaw's Paths Of Duty: American Missionary Wives In Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Claudia Knapman, John Young, Nancy F. Cott, Mary Catherine Bateson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Judith Huntsman's Review Of Jocelyn Linnekin's Sacred Queens And Women Of Consequence: Rank, Gender, And Colonialism In The Hawaiian Islands, Judith Huntsman Sep 1992

Judith Huntsman's Review Of Jocelyn Linnekin's Sacred Queens And Women Of Consequence: Rank, Gender, And Colonialism In The Hawaiian Islands, Judith Huntsman

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


When Unity Is Torn Asunder: The Distressing Case Of Thomas And Lucia Holman, Sandra Wagner-Wright Jun 1992

When Unity Is Torn Asunder: The Distressing Case Of Thomas And Lucia Holman, Sandra Wagner-Wright

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


John Charlot's Review Of Davida Malo's Ka Mo‘Olelo Hawaii (Hawaiian Antiquities) And Malcolm Naea Chun's Hawaiian Medicine Book, He Buke Laau Lapaau, John Charlot Jun 1992

John Charlot's Review Of Davida Malo's Ka Mo‘Olelo Hawaii (Hawaiian Antiquities) And Malcolm Naea Chun's Hawaiian Medicine Book, He Buke Laau Lapaau, John Charlot

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


M. Guy Bishop's Review Of R. Lanier Britsch's Moramona: The Mormons In Hawaii, M. Guy Bishop Mar 1991

M. Guy Bishop's Review Of R. Lanier Britsch's Moramona: The Mormons In Hawaii, M. Guy Bishop

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review Forum On David E. Stannard's Before The Horror: The Population Of Hawai‘I On The Eve Of Western Contact, David E. Stannard, Terry L. Hunt, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Francis L. Black Jul 1990

Book Review Forum On David E. Stannard's Before The Horror: The Population Of Hawai‘I On The Eve Of Western Contact, David E. Stannard, Terry L. Hunt, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Francis L. Black

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Hana ‘Ino: Child Maltreatment In A Hawaiian-American Community, Jill E. Korbin Jul 1990

Hana ‘Ino: Child Maltreatment In A Hawaiian-American Community, Jill E. Korbin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Moe ‘Uhane—The Dream: An Account Of The Dream In Traditional Hawaiian Culture, Jane Bathgate Mar 1990

Moe ‘Uhane—The Dream: An Account Of The Dream In Traditional Hawaiian Culture, Jane Bathgate

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Regional Variation And Local Style: A Neglected Dimension In Hawaiian Prehistory, Patrick V. Kirch Mar 1990

Regional Variation And Local Style: A Neglected Dimension In Hawaiian Prehistory, Patrick V. Kirch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Gaudichaud’S Record Of Hawaiian Vernacular Names For Plants, Harold St. John Nov 1989

Gaudichaud’S Record Of Hawaiian Vernacular Names For Plants, Harold St. John

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.