Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Month: October 2014

On the term "Haole".

Many people have grown up to believe that the term haole comes from: hā (breath) ʻole (without). To add confusion to that even some Native Hawaiians have accepted this and in the wikipedia entry also mentions this. But it is an incorrect and superficial rendering of the word. The word “haole” does not mean “without — read more

Oct 29, 2014
The King and Urban Planning in Honolulu

I’ve been doing research on Honolulu urban planning and that’s one of the reasons why I’ve been looking at the histories of Queen Square, Thomas Square, Queen Kapi’olani Park and other historical sites in Metropolitan Honolulu. Thomas Square was officially the first public park on O’ahu and was declared a national historical site by Kamehameha — read more

Oct 29, 2014
UN Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories

From the UN Special Committee on Decolonization: A depiction from 1945 showing areas that needed to be decolonized and be enabled towards self-determination. Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands are both shown along with all of Polynesia, Indonesia and Malaysia. Its a huge mistake to think that non-self-governing territories were simply “colonies”. Territories, nations, national groups, — read more

Oct 29, 2014