Culture of Hawaii

Forcefully separating a family and sending them to camps on just a suspicion. Does that sound like what over one-hundred thousand Japanese Americans expected to encounter when doing nothing more than living their lives in a new country? It was a horrible and demoralizing thing that Japanese Americans went through during the early 1940’s when the United States government signed into action Executive Order 9066, authorizing the use of internment camps to hold Japanese Americans after the bombing…

To Be Born and Make History Kukaniloko: Wahiawa’s Birthing Stones When one hears the word Hawai’i, the first image that appears in his or her mind would be a place of paradise with extravagant waters, calm breezes in the air, rays of sun streaming through the clouds. Most would envision a perfect vacation full of beaches, resorts, and hotels. However, there is so much more that Hawai’i has to offer besides getting a glimmering tan at the beach. There are gardens and Hawaii's national parks…

In early December in 1941, Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japanese, resulting in the deaths of over 2,400 American soldiers. This infuriated the U.S and caused them to officially join the war. Four years later, on August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima instantly killing about 70,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki which caused the deaths of 40,000 more people. The United States’ decision to drop an atomic bomb on…

consistently low blood pressure with no rise as people grew older it is the reason why John Cassel and the School of Public health had selected Pohnpei. 2. The three challenges the anthropologists have to faces while conducting fieldwork in Pohnpei are culture shock, learning a new language, and explain words that Pohnpein people don’t have. 3. Pohnpei used three different types of language common, respectful, and honorific. The latter two levels are called “high language.” In high language…

The role of a kahuna in the Hawaiian culture takes on the responsibility of keeping a balance between the people and the nation. In doing so, they apply their field of expertise towards assisting the aliʻi and the makaʻāinana. In ancient Hawai’i, there were many different types of kāhuna that had a skill set that contributed or benefited the community. In this paper I will discuss the different ways a kahuna achieves this type of balance within the lāhui. These kuleana include advising the aliʻi…

America has mobilized a lot they made a mobilization to prepare a war he made troops creation for active service on December 7, 1941 was a surprise attack by the Japanese Imperial Naval Service against the US naval base at pearl harbor specially to Hawaii. This military strike mobilized the whole country and prepared them for the war in almost a year. the mobilization brings many jobs that help end the Great Depression in the United States. There were 43 million men registered for the army and…

Japanese were thought of as lesser people due to the facts they were ambitious. White Americans assumed the Japanese would take their jobs. Federal Law has limited Japanese rights before the attack on Pearl Harbor including immigration, citizenship, and voting. Japanese-Americans were interned in camps during WW2 because since we we fought with Japan, people worried the Japanese-American would be with the Japan and not with the United States. Also, the Americans were taking economic…

The Japanese Admiral Yamamoto made a very important foreshadowing statement after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” He meant that the Japanese had poked the U.S. awake and the Japanese were about to be swallowed. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed the United States Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. There was a lot of infrastructure damage and human lives lost as a result.…

On December 7, 1941, a devastating day occurred. Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. near Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack was called Pearl Harbor. The first wave of Japanese pilots came in at around 7:50 am. The Japanese pilots were called torpedo bombers. Torpedo bombers dropped bombs that had propellers on the back of the bomb which would then push the torpedo into the desired target. Around 7:53a.m, more pilots from the first wave came in and the pilots were called dive bombers, these…

Look around you. The people who surround you and fill you with happiness, the plants that make you feel at peace when they sway, and the home in which provides you a warm environment filled with so many memories. Now imagine that being stripped away from you because of your race. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, that set the internment and exclusion of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast, in motion. This total mass relocation was an…