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Mala Lā’Au Lapa’Au: Preserving The Hawaiian ‘Āina And Mo’Omehue, Sandra Fogg

Senior Honors Projects

The study of medicinal plants in the western world tends to focus on the isolation and elucidation of natural products that have bioactive characteristics and potential for pharmaceutical formulation. However, the utilization of medicinal plants in cultures that still practice ancient medicine, such as Hawai’i and other Pacific Island nations, involves the use of whole plant parts in conjunction with spiritual rituals to heal illnesses and ailments. In order to gather a different perspective of the use of plants in medicine, a diverse investigation of “Lā’au Lapa’au,” or the Hawaiian art of healing through the use of plants and spiritual …

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 …

Mormon Pacific Historical Society 2008 Conference Schedule, March 21st And 22nd

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Not Quite "Purported": Revisiting The Bombing Accounts Of The Hawaii Temple, December 7th, 1941

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

One of the most wide-spread religious legends207 thought to have been laid to rest by historians is the account of the protection by miraculous forces of the of the La'ie Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from damage or destruction by a Japanese pilot following the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.

Life In La'ie During World War Ii

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Prior to the coming of Nebeker and Hammond to purchase the land for the Church. My recollection of stories that were told to me by my great-grand Aunt who lived to be ninety - four, is that, ... some of you may have seen pictures of La'ie. La.'ie was sand dunes. My mother said when she was growing up you could stand at La.'ie school and see all the way down to Pounder's. There was no brush, no trees, no plants, just sand dunes. And so because of that the water being in the foot hills our families lived in …

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Daily Diary Of Mphs 2004 Tour Of New Zealand

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

We had a group of 48 people of which 39 met at BYU-H parking lot at 7:30 PM. to have a bus transport us to the airport for our trip to N. Z. Many family members came to say good-bye, wish us well and to have a safe journey. The leaders of our group are Bro. Colin and Raewin Shelford, John Elkington, Riley Moffat and Rex Frandsen. Stella Keil, Mike Foley and Zane Clark are other members of the MPHS board and are traveling with us as well. Checking in at the airport ran rather smoothly, except for a very …

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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At Whakatu Marae, Nelson, New Zealand

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

April 12th, 2004

President Staples of the Wellington, New Zealand Mission:

It is so wonderful for Sis Staples and I to be here with you tonight. We have some dear friends with us from Hawaii. We lived in Hawaii for about six years and I served as a Bishop of the Laie Ward and then I served in the Stake Presidency and what a joy that was for us and the friendships we that we made, Carol and Marie lived right under us, almost, at Cackle Fresh and we really built a friendship there.

Mphs Fireside At Dunedin Branch, Dunedin, New Zealand

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

April 18th , 2004

Bro. Riley Moffat:

My dear brothers and sisters, Aloha. "Aloha". Okay, now it customary that you respond so let's try that one more time, brothers and sisters, Aloha. "Aloha". Mahalo nui loa.

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Fireside At Manukau Stake Centre, Auckland

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

April 25th, 2004

Sister Hinemoa Hakaraia:

"Aloha my friends from Hawaii. "Aloha." Aloha my relatives from New Zealand. "Aloha." Kiaora. "Kiaora." I deem this a great honour to be invited to speak at this fireside tonight. This is our ANZAC Day today and I just thought, before I continue with my talk, that I pay reverence to my brother, who died on the 29th April last year, and left me on my own-some out of our three families, and I am so thankful for him and you'll notice as I go along in my report tonight, how important he was …

Fireside At Christchurch Stake Center Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

The tape of the Christchurch fireside did not turn out. It was garbled and unintelligible. So here is a synopsis of the event from the notes of Bonnie Naluai who was assigned to record the events of the day and Mike Foley.

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Whangarei Stake Center

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Monsey Anaru: We have a saying in New Zealand among the Maori people, which goes something like this: Kia poto tonu te okou to paipa kie maha nai waha. Translated: we're happy to see you, extremely happy. Especially when you're handed some candy and things like that. Literally, that means: have a short stalk on your pipe to retain the warmth closer to your mouth. So, I hope that I'm not going to speak for too long. I have all my notes with me. The first meeting place in Whangarei was a street by the central Baptist Church there where …

Takapuwahia Marae, Porirua

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Taku Parai: Well, we've come to the part of the program where I guess a lot of questions and answers are going to be shared between us all, but I think we should start of on the right note, and that is that we'll have an opening song, which we'll ask Aunty Cissy to conduct. And we'll ask Hrother Pierce to give the opening invocation to this part of the program.

Mphs New Zealand Trip: Daily Diary, April 16-28, 2002

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Tuesday, 16 April

We left Honolulu at 12:30 a.m., 5 long hours after leaving Laie. At some point the 6 ½-hour flight to Nadi we crossed the International Dateline and lost a day, arriving at Nadi at 5:30 a.m. on April 16th.

Judea Marae, Tauranga

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

A. Watene: They belong to the Church for two generations before I was born. My mother was a Morrison Meha from Gisborne. Actually she was a Salvation Army person before she met my father, and it wasn't long after she met him that she joined the Church. My mother was a very spiritual woman, and her name was Ani Morete.

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Duncan Home, Tahoraiti, Dannevirke

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Richard Marsh: I'll go back till I was round about ten. Matthew Cowley came here to live. He brought a little boy. I do believe he adopted a little boy that was brought from up Nuhaka way somewhere. Tony was his name. The first thing he told Tony was, don't you mix with that man he was bad company. That was me, but anyway. That was one of my first introductions with Matthew Cowley.

Awarua Chapel

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

(Who?): Brothers and sisters and friends, I acknowledge our Heavenly Father for the blessings that bring you people here to Awarua. Now, I have just arrived back from Wellington and I heard that this Hawaiian group was coming from Hawaii.

Papakura Marae. Auckland

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Brian Joyce: There's a picture up on the wall of a world renowned lady for her skills in making korowai in particular. And her name was Dame Rangimarie Hetet. And so we built that center to commemorate her and we did that while she was alive. And when we opened the building we invited her to the opening and she opened it and she was 100 years old then.

Maromaku Chapel

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Les Going: The Church in the Valley here goes back to 1910 when my grandfather moved into the valley. His life in the church began way back in 1890 and he lived in a different area at the time, but when he moved here then he began the Church in this area.

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Mormonism And The Maori: A Look At Beginnings

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a sustained mission to the New Zealand Maori beginning in the 1880s. Within a few short years thousands had been baptized. By the turn of the century, the church counted nearly a tenth of the total Maori population as members, with a significantly higher percentage in certain pas (settlements) along the east coast of the North Island from the southern Wairarapa to Poverty Bay and beyond.1 The reason Mormonism was so well accepted among a significant minority of Maori in the final decades of the nineteenth century and why it continues …

Beisinger Hall, Church College Of New Zealand, Temple View

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Bill Heperi: We're going to have two presentations this evening, it's all about Church history, it's about a lot of the missionaries that came to New Zealand, way back in the early 1900s, Sister Rangi Parker will be our presenter and after half an hour of that we'll follow through with a recess for a moment, and then we'll have John Aspinall, he'll present to you rather interesting pictures of the labor missionary days when they constructed this whole campus, temple, the college, visitor center, and surrounding faculty homes. So without further ado I'm going to ask Sister Rangi Parker …

Andrew Jenson In New Zealand 1895-1896

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Andrew Jenson was Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. He was born in 1850 in Damgren, Denmark. The family joined the Church in 1854 and emigrated to Utah in 1866, settling in Pleasant Grove. After a mission back to Denmark Andrew become interested in publishing material about the history of the Church. In 1888 he traveled throughout the Eastern U.S. collecting material on Church history.

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

Pacific Studies

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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