Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Author: adamkeawe

Numbers in Different Austronesian Languages

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Jun 9, 2018
Leilani Estates Ad

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Jun 9, 2018
Princess Kaʻiulani, Jim Bartels and ʻŌʻiwi

I thought I’d give a personal story about how this princess made me rethink certain aspects of Hawaiian identity including my own.Back in 1998, I conceived to write something on her 100th death anniversary the following year for ʻŌʻiwi Native Hawaiian journal. I was already finishing a piece on King Kalākauaʻs world tour for that… — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Alice Ball

Most people would not recognise this portrait. This is Alice Ball. Alice Augusta Ball was born on July 24, 1892 in Seattle, Washington and was born in a family of prominent African-American trailblazers. Her grandfather was James P. Ball, who was a well known photographer who focused on photographing African-Americans and African-American communities. Her family was… — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Some Thoughts on Kaʻahumanu I

Kaʻahumanu remains to this day a controversial figure in Hawaiian history.Her parents were Chief Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi of Kona and Princess Nāmāhānaʻi Kaleleokalani of Maui. Nāmāhānaʻi was the sister of King Kahekili II, the man who had he lived a decade longer, would have united the entire archipelago. Kaʻahumanu birth was not widely celebrated. Her uncle… — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Letter Queen Liliʻuokalani naming Princess Elizabeth Kuhio Kalanianaʻole As Leader

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Jun 9, 2018
King Kalākaua, Pacific Self-Determination and Walter Gibson

This is one of several protests sent by King Kalākauaʻs Foreign Minister, W. M. Gibson, to Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States throughout the 1880s. This specific protest was against the “Declaration between the Governments of Great Britain and the German Empire relating to the Demarcation of the British and German… — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Hawaiian Meme: ʻAumākua

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Jun 9, 2018
The Term "Makaʻāinana"

Makaʻāinana is the Hawaiian term often translated as “commoner”. But actually thatʻs a misnomer because in English a commoner is someone without rank or title and who were neither clergy nor noble. That is based on European social stratification going back to the Greeks and Romans. In Hawaiian, makaʻāinana is in fact a protected class and… — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Recognizing Hawaiian Women in Hawaiian History

In reflecting on the way that many local women are dismissed in Hawaiian history and culture discussions by outsiders and even at times by our own men in the Hawaiian community, maybe this is be a wake up call in understanding and revisiting the way women are thought of in history in general but in… — read more

Jun 9, 2018