Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Author: adamkeawe

Some thoughts about Queen Kapiʻolani

I n the dining room of my grandmother’s house before in Papakōlea, there used to be two photographs. One was of Queen Lili’uokalani and the other was Queen Kapi’olani (the one depicted here with the dark velvet dress serving as a backdrop for her lei hulu manu). I talked a little bit about my family’s… — read more

Feb 25, 2014
Pre-Cook Foreigners in Hawai’i

In King Kalakaua’s Legends and Myths of Hawai’i, he devotes a several passages and an entire chapter (“The Iron Knife”) about possible foreigners who had visited or lived in Hawai’i before the arrival of Captain Cook. The late king lists, for example, oral traditions recounting foreigners–Japanese and Spanish–who were shipwrecked in Hawai’i. Although this does… — read more

Sep 10, 2012
Queen Lili’uokalani

In honor of Queen Lili’uokalani’s birthday this year, I decided to write some thoughts about what Queen Lili’uokalani means to most Hawaiians, including myself. As a boy, I can remember a portrait of the Queen hanging in the living room of my grandmother’s living room. Her portrait always hung above the pictures and photographs of… — read more

Sep 1, 2012
The Role of Hawaiian Women

One of the side affects of colonialism in most areas in the Pacific had been the introduction of a rigid system of gender roles. In my own understanding of traditional cultures through Oceania, most indigenous peoples acknowledged not two genders but three. The Bugis in Sulawesi in Indonesia for example have five genders. In other… — read more

Aug 15, 2012
Pono

I thought I would post a note here. I am beginning to deeply regret now sharing what I shared on this blog about what happened to my own family. Not because of non-Hawaiians but because of the responses from Hawaiians themselves. For example, on the Lawful Hawaiian Government Facebook group someone directly plagiarized an entire… — read more

Aug 9, 2012
1893

Instead of writing my unusual blog posts which is normally sprinkled with Hawaiian laws and other references, I thought I would write a more personal post. For an indigenous Hawaiian, its sometimes very difficult to maintain an emotional distance in talking about certain events in our past. Among these events is what happened in 1893.… — read more

Jul 16, 2012
Race in Historical Narratives of Hawai’i

For those who believe that historians are “non-partisan” or “neutral”, this article may come as a surprise to you. All historians have political, social, religious, and class views which informs them on the way they write historical narratives. In Hawai’i’s case, there are currently five major prevailing historical narratives on how Hawaiian history is basically… — read more

Jul 16, 2012
July 4

Sanford Dole Swearing Himself as President of the Republic of Hawai’i Today, July 4th, marks a bleak day in Hawaiian history. Today marks the anniversary of the birth of the Republic of Hawai’i. To many, the word “republic” does not carry strong negative overtones like it does for many Hawaiians. That isn’t to say that… — read more

Jul 5, 2012
Kalakaua: An International Perspective

Reposting this important article from the Journal of the Hawai’i Historical Society King Kalakaua in Japan, 1881 King Kalakaua: An International Perspective NIKLAUS R. SCHWEIZER, former Swiss Consul to Hawai’i This year marks the 100th year of the death in San Francisco, on January 20, 1891, of David Kalakaua, Hawaii’s last king. T H E KING… — read more

Apr 7, 2012
Aloha ‘Aina (Love of the Land): The Struggle for Land and Power in Hawai’i (Repost)

(Note: Reposting this from http://www.apimovement.com/history/aloha-%C3%A3ina-love-land-struggle-land-and-power hawaii as this adds to the discussions on Hawaiian sovereignty. Note this was originally written in 1982 so some of the ideas expressed are no longer considered “factual” but its an interesting read to see how far the sovereignty movement came and at how involved liberals and progressives were involved once… — read more

Mar 14, 2012