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Early 20th Century Job Ad in the Philippines for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association
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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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Hawaiian Kahuna
One of the most abused Hawaiian words and concepts is the word kahuna. Nowadays, the word is used in slang to mean an expert surfer, an influential person (“the big kahuna”), a shaman, and a large hamburger. However, none of these definitions are correct. However, The Hawaiian Dictionary as edited by Mary Kawena Pukui and — read more
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Iā ʻOe e ka Lā: Around the World with King Kalākaua Part 1
Iā ʻOe e ka Lā: Around the World with King Kalākaua [This is Part One of an essay I wrote and which was originally published in the O’iwi Native Hawaiian Literary Journal V. 2. I’m posting this part since this deals with a forgotten part of the history of the Pan-Malayan Movement and therefore is — read more
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Hawaiian Lua or Martial Arts
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Hawaiian Traditional Weaponry
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Flood Stories: A Key to Understanding Austronesian Migrations
Flooding during Typhoon Ondoy, Manila, 2009 One of the most controversial topics about Austronesians (besides race, which I will get into some other time) is about origins. Most people are already aware of the standard theory of Austronesian migration–the Out of Taiwan theory. But many are not away of another theory that has slowly gained — read more
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Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp 