Analysis Of From A Native Daughter By Trask

In Trask's article From a Native Daughter, she talks about her opinions on the Hawaii's history. Trask is a native Hawaiian. When she was young, she always heard stories about Hawaii's past from his parents and grandparents. However, these stories were not as same as the stories that her history teachers taught her in the school. After she grew up and focused on Hawaiian studies, Trask began to understand more about the reasons that why so many differences occurred between the history in the books and the histories told by her family. Trask claims that even though people always believe the histories that are written in the books are correct, sometimes the real histories are from the stories and songs of a culture instead of the books. Trask …show more content…
When a listener tells the story to the next listener, he can add his perspectives inside the story, which is not occurred in the original story. However, the listener will think the storyteller's opinion is part of the history. The Obama's article, Dreams From My Faith, servers as a very good example. Obama's father left him when his was very young and he does not have any memory of his father, so he can only get the stories about his father from his mom and grandparents. Through the story telling by his family, he understands that people tell the story as they want to interpret it. Obama's family wants to protect him and don't want him to be heart-broken, so they add their feeling and thoughts inside the …show more content…
As she writes in the article, the colonizer wants to deculture the local people. They want the local people to follow their leading, so they made changes in their historical writings to show that the earlier Hawaiian had already did these things. Therefore, the Hawaiians will be misled by the historians and think the things that are set up by the colonizer were already existed in their history and the locals would like to follow those patterns. Trask indicated in the article that the historians wrote the Hawaiian chiefs were landlords. However, the true history is that no one owned the land before the white people came. Actually, the landlord system is the same as the European private property. This shows that the historians implement something that did not belong to the local and let them trust it was existed before and then the local people start to have these