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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
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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
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Some thoughts on the Creation of a Hawaiian National History
Part 1 One of the major tasks of any nation is creating a national narrative or political history. A national narrative is important to nation-building since all nations are, in the words of Benedict Anderson, “imagined communities”. A nation is an imagined community because its not possible to connect with everyone in a given at — read more