Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Tag: Kalakaua

Order of Kalākaua at the Istana Besar, Malaysia

This is from the collection of the Sultan of Johor and is kept at the Royal Abu Bakar Museum within the Istana Besar complex in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. The blue medals in the corner of the pictures are breast star and sash star of the the Knights Grand Cross of Royal Order of Kalākaua — read more

Jun 26, 2018
King Kalākaua, Pacific Self-Determination and Walter Gibson

This is one of several protests sent by King Kalākauaʻs Foreign Minister, W. M. Gibson, to Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States throughout the 1880s. This specific protest was against the “Declaration between the Governments of Great Britain and the German Empire relating to the Demarcation of the British and German — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Research Notes on Hawaiian Earth Science

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Jun 9, 2018
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

Oct 29, 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
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
The Opium Trade in Hawai’i

When the British began to trade with China, they found that the Chinese had little desire for British products. So Queen Victoria’s Britain began to import opium into China. When the Chinese Emperor tried to stop the drug trade, the British declared war and ended up not only imposing the sale of opium on the — read more

Oct 15, 2011
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

Nov 3, 2010