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Re-Imagine Paradise: The Impacts Of The Illegal Annexation Of Hawai'i & Tourism On Native Hawaiians, Paige Edwards Aug 2025

Re-Imagine Paradise: The Impacts Of The Illegal Annexation Of Hawai'i & Tourism On Native Hawaiians, Paige Edwards

SMU Journal of Undergraduate Research

This literature review presents a vital exploration of colonialism, the illegal annexation of Hawai’i, and the subsequent emergence of the tourism industry as a neocolonial enterprise. Neocolonialism is the process of colonial dominance through modern exploitation, which is masked through economic opportunities and has left territories and their native people dependent on it. By tracing the major historical events in Hawai’i highlights how education was a vital aspect of Native Hawaiian culture, empowering its people - a stark contrast to the current education system where the education system perpetuates the commodification of Native Hawaiian culture. Education has played a pivotal …


Puhi In The Tree And Other Stories: Unlocking The Metaphor In Native And Indigenous Hawaiian Storytelling, Renuka M. De Silva, Joshua E. Hunter Jun 2021

Puhi In The Tree And Other Stories: Unlocking The Metaphor In Native And Indigenous Hawaiian Storytelling, Renuka M. De Silva, Joshua E. Hunter

The Qualitative Report

Human beings live and tell stories for many reasons, and it is a way to not only understand one another but to give a time and place to events and experiences. Therefore, a narrational approach within the context of this research offers a frame of reference and a way to reflect during the entire process of gathering data and writing. This study examines the importance of storytelling among Native (Kānaka ‘Ōiwi) and Indigenous (Kānaka Maoli) women of Hawai ̒ i and their interconnectedness to land and spirituality through accessing [k]new knowledge. The main focus of this article is to illustrate …


The Island Earth Field Studio: A High School Summer Program On Polynesian Voyaging In Hawaii, Andrea M. Bachmann May 2020

The Island Earth Field Studio: A High School Summer Program On Polynesian Voyaging In Hawaii, Andrea M. Bachmann

Capstone Collection

The Island Earth Field Studio is a ten-day program for high school students to learn about Polynesian voyaging in Hawaii as a framework to understand non-Western knowledge systems. The program design is grounded in research on the historical significance of voyaging and informed by current literature on adolescent development and place-based pedagogy.

To further refine the program, a needs assessment was conducted using a combination of surveys and interviews with parents and educators in the continental United States (mainland) as well as interviews with local partners in Hawaii. The assessment revealed that cultural learning and community building were viewed by …


Living Aloha: Portraits Of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, And Resistance, Camilla G. Wengler Vignoe Jan 2015

Living Aloha: Portraits Of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, And Resistance, Camilla G. Wengler Vignoe

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

When Native Hawaiians move away from the islands, they risk losing their cultural identity and heritage. This dissertation utilizes a Hawaiian theoretical framework based in Indigenous research practices and uses phenomenology, ethnography, heuristics, and portraiture to tell the stories of leadership, change, and resilience of five Native Hawaiians who as adults, chose to permanently relocate to the United States mainland. It explores the reasons why Kanaka Maoli (politically correct term for Native Hawaiians) leave the 'āina (land; that which feeds) in the first place and eventually become permanent mainland residents. Some Hawaiians lose their culture after relocating to the United …


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 …


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 …


Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu Mar 1999

Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu

Pacific Studies

Intermarriage is one of the most salient demographic features of Hawai‘i. Between 1983 and 1994, 46 percent of all marriages contracted in Hawai‘i were racially exogamous. This article examines socioeconomic status exchange in outgroup marriage and explores the impact this status change has had on the social well-being of four ethnic groups of Pacific Islanders (Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians, Samoans, and other Pacific Islanders). Status homogamy emerges as the most important pattern of mate selection. In a broad sense, people choose their mates on the basis of equal socioeconomic status, either within or across boundaries of race and ethnicity. Gender differences 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.


How Many Hawaiians Live In Hawai‘I?, Robert C. Schmitt Sep 1996

How Many Hawaiians Live In Hawai‘I?, Robert C. Schmitt

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 Horror” Reconsidered: An Evaluation Of The Historical Evidence For Population Decline In Hawai‘I, 1778–1803, Andrew F. Bushnell Sep 1993

“The Horror” Reconsidered: An Evaluation Of The Historical Evidence For Population Decline In Hawai‘I, 1778–1803, Andrew F. Bushnell

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.


Noel J. Kent's Review Of Eleanor Nordyke's The Peopling Of Hawaii, Noel J. Kent Mar 1991

Noel J. Kent's Review Of Eleanor Nordyke's The Peopling Of Hawaii, Noel J. Kent

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.


Mark Merlin's Review Of John L. Culliney's Islands In A Far Sea: Nature And Man In Hawaii., Mark Merlin Nov 1990

Mark Merlin's Review Of John L. Culliney's Islands In A Far Sea: Nature And Man In Hawaii., Mark Merlin

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.


Rumors And The Language Of Social Change In Early Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Char Miller Jul 1989

Rumors And The Language Of Social Change In Early Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Char Miller

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Renate Von Gizycki's Review Of John Charlot's The Kamapua‘A Literature: The Classical Traditions Of The Hawaiian Pig God As A Body Of Literature, Renate Von Gizycki Mar 1989

Renate Von Gizycki's Review Of John Charlot's The Kamapua‘A Literature: The Classical Traditions Of The Hawaiian Pig God As A Body Of Literature, Renate Von Gizycki

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Lillian Z. Mason's Review Of Elvi Whittaker's The Mainland Haole: The White Experience In Hawaii, Lillian Z. Mason Mar 1988

Lillian Z. Mason's Review Of Elvi Whittaker's The Mainland Haole: The White Experience In Hawaii, Lillian Z. Mason

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.