Hawai I

Since the beginning of life on Earth, from the Paleozoic era to the present, place making and control of one’s own marked territory has been an integral part of human development and settlement. There are battles within the animal kingdom and human populations everyday over space, place, and control which have in the past led to harrowing wars and conflicts. According to the World Health Organization (2007), there are roughly 370 million indigenous peoples living in various countries around the world; people that have been settled in those locations for hundreds to thousands of years. Those indigenous people were the first to make and transform those geographical locations to call them home. This essay is going to expand on the topic of how …show more content…
Since then that space has been transformed into a sacred place to those people and no one can ever take that away from them. As time has passed, the Native Hawaiian population has decreased immensely, who widely remain now, after years of transforming once again, are Locals, a term which Costa & Besio (2011) explain as “encompassing many of the ethnic groups who migrated to Hawai'i to work in plantation agriculture during the latter half of the nineteenth century such as Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, and now includes Native Hawaiians, Portuguese, and Caucasians (haole).” (pg. 839-840). Place, especially a place like Hawai'i, is also being transformed over time with relation to climate change and the evolving changes to the environment. Nunn (2013) states: “Climate and geology are the principal controls on global landform development. Climatic and oceanographic controls, particularly precipitation, are important causes of landform variation throughout the Pacific Islands.” (pg. 45). So not only are the social and cultural changes contributing to the transformation of Hawai'i, but so are the physical