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Did Hawaiians think of Captain Cook as Lono?
Every Hawaiian scholar has a take on this though it’s really not a “Hawaiian” issue per se. There’s a couple of things that we need to consider when we think about this question. One, the way that Hawaiian scholars and writers for the last two hundred years have had to use the medium of… — read more
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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
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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
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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
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The Arrest of the Queen
On January 16th, 1895, Deputy Marshal Arthur Brown and Captain Robert Waipa Parker–two police officers from the self-proclaimed Republic of Hawai’i–came up to steps of Washington Place. They knocked on the door and one of Queen Lili’uokalani’s attendents, Mrs. Eveline Wilson, answered and directed the police officers to the front parlor. The Queen, who was in… — read more
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The Queen’s Speech, 1892.
I was going through my notes and I was rereading Speeches from the Throne, which were sort of like how the Americans have their State of the Union address except its done in the first day of the opening of a legislative session. This is an excerpt from Queen Lili’uokalani’s Speech From the Throne, May 28th,… — read more
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King Kamehameha IV’s Ascension Speech, 1855
King Kamehameha IV’s Address on the occasion of taking the Oath prescribed by the Constitution. Extr. from Polynesian, published on Jan. 13, 1855: I solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, to maintain the Constitution of the Kingdom whole and inviolate, and to govern in conformity with that and the laws. Give ear Hawaii o Keawe!… — read more
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The Royal Pets
When the Mormon missionary William Root Bliss arrived in Honolulu in 1873, he reported that “Every family keeps at least one dog; every native family a brace of cats.” Indeed, for many generations a Hawaiian household consisted of grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, children, cousins and an assortment of animals such as dogs, pigs, chickens, and later… — read more
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Some thoughts about Pono
“At the very beginning of the path to Enlightenment there are twenty difficulties for us to overcome in this world and they are:1. It is hard for a poor man to be generous.2. It is hard for a proud man to learn the Way of Enlightenment.3. It is hard to seek Enlightenment at the cost… — read more
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Broken but Beautiful
When Hawaiians of old broke a bowl, they did not discard it. Instead, they mended it using another type of wood and shaped it in the form of a fish (known as the pewa design) or a butterfly (known as the lepelepe o Hina design) as part of the mending process. The more it was… — read more
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