Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Month: October 2011

The Opium Trade in Hawai’i

When the British began to trade with China, they found that the Chinese had little desire for British products. So Queen Victoria’s Britain began to import opium into China. When the Chinese Emperor tried to stop the drug trade, the British declared war and ended up not only imposing the sale of opium on the — read more

Oct 15, 2011
Hawaiians in the P.G.

One of the topics that is often discouraged is the topic of Native Hawaiian collaboration with the Protectorate Government (note: it should actually be called Protectorate not Provisional Government because the Provisional Government collapsed 15 days after its formation and was saved by US Minister John Stevens through his proclamation of the Protectorate Government) or P.G. and — read more

Oct 12, 2011
Some thoughts on the Creation of a Hawaiian National History

Part 1 One of the major tasks of any nation is creating a national narrative or political history. A national narrative is important to nation-building since all nations are, in the words of Benedict Anderson, “imagined communities”. A nation is an imagined community because its not possible to connect with everyone in a given at — read more

Oct 10, 2011
The Hawai’i State Capitol

The Hawai’i State Capitol: Hawaiian International or Modernist Colonial? Architecture has long been used as a political tool. Ramses II built temples and statues of himself along the Egyptian border with Nubia (modern day Sudan) to emphasize Egyptian sovereignty and might. Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler all used architecture as a way to legitimatize — read more

Oct 6, 2011