Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Tag: Japan

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
Hawaiians in the P.G.

One of the topics that is often discouraged is the topic of Native Hawaiian collaboration with the Protectorate Government (note: it should actually be called Protectorate not Provisional Government because the Provisional Government collapsed 15 days after its formation and was saved by US Minister John Stevens through his proclamation of the Protectorate Government) or P.G. and — read more

Oct 12, 2011
The Hawai’i State Capitol

The Hawai’i State Capitol: Hawaiian International or Modernist Colonial? Architecture has long been used as a political tool. Ramses II built temples and statues of himself along the Egyptian border with Nubia (modern day Sudan) to emphasize Egyptian sovereignty and might. Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler all used architecture as a way to legitimatize — read more

Oct 6, 2011