Native Hawaiians

the time that Mark Twain visited, there were about 60,000 Native Hawaiians living on the island. Previously, the population had been between 400,000 and 800,000. This dramatic decrease in population was due to exposure to new diseases brought over by Europeans. Although Americans did not cause this decline, they did play a large role in the loss of native Hawaiian culture. Mark Twain summed this up perfectly by stating "Although Hawaiians died due to European microbes, their culture will die due…

Know Your History The people of Hawaii tend to have a misconception of Hawaiian history. Hawaii's people understand a history of Hawaii but not the correct one because of the denationalization of our people. Denationalization is the term used in the law but it means the same thing as “brain washed” and it is the same method the Germans used in World War II. The Germans used it against the Jewish people to wipe out the population of Jewish people. We need to understand that the goal now is not to…

some problems with the video. The video consisted of multiple clips of Native Americans with text over the clips explaining why changing the day would be a good idea, but the only Native Americans shown were plains Native Americans in the reservation era. Using images of Native Americans in this way is politically invigorating in that it shows the Native Americans only as they were during the reservation era. Showing the Native Americans as “outside of history”, or in just that one moment (the…

unimportant and questioned by others as to his ethnicity, as though he could not possibly be of Native Hawaiian decent. Sharing his experiences of growing up, he stated that, “living in Hawaii I was always considered just Black, even though I am Hawaiian, half the time I am more Hawaiian than half of these kids that claim that they are Hawaiian - Hawaiian, but they’re Chinese, Filipino, White and they’re an eighth Hawaiian, but because I looked like a stereotypical Black kid with an afro hair,…

appears to tourists as a nostalgic memorial and a worthwhile attraction, but was initially an unwelcome invasion of Hawaiian land. “The Pearl harbor military-tourism complex succeeds because it manages the difficult balancing act of emphasizing serious historical and emotional content with the expectations of tourism in a tropical place” (p.135). By obscuring the truth about Hawaiian colonization, the military has developed a trustworthy reputation and hypocritically plays the role of Hawaii’s…

pivotal element of maintaining influence there, and they needed more of it. More land to cultivate crops, more land to seemingly make the native populus more productive, more; because it was a right (Cachola). Thus, the Great Mahele was formulated, to distribute land equally in four parts among Hawaii’s inhabitants (Borreca). This land division eventually decimated native land ownership while boosting foreign land control intensely. Foreigners would be greatly benefited by the Mahele because of…

famous for a vacation spot globally. However, one Hawaiian woman thinks that corporate tourism demolishes her homeland, Hawaii, culturally, economically, and politically. In Haunani Kay Trask’s article, “Lovely Hula Hands” (published in from A Native Daughter by the University of Hawaii Press, 1998), the author employs ethos, logos, and pathos to express her views about corporate tourism is degrading Hawaiian culture and dehumanizing the Hawaiian people’s way of living. In Trask’s article, the…

Family Therapy (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005) where about Native Americans, Native Hawaiian families, British West Indian families, and Haitian families (2-4 & 8-9 chapters). I was very excited about this assignment and very much enjoyed reading about these cultures. Any and all details I can learn about Native Americans I find really enjoyable. These details will help me with my current job as well. In the Native American society, if an individual is lesbian, gay, bisexual or…

own land, but instead it was harder for Hawaiians to own land. The land was auctioned off and was sometimes rigged, The Mahele was originally made to give the Hawaiians the land they were demanding. This made things unfair because the hawaiians got a little portion of land compared to the foreigners. The People who spent their lives on farms growing crops have to sit and watch their crops get pulled from the ground.. The Mahele was unjustified because Hawaiians were not able to get land, their…

The overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 involved many conflicting opinions on whether Hawaii’s sovereignty should have been maintained or not. During King Kalakaua’s reign, businessmen and foreigners formed the Hawaiian League, and their main goal was to reform the monarchy. Once the king passed, his sister Lili’uokalani became queen; however, despite her efforts, she ended up yielding her throne and giving up Hawaii’s sovereignty to the America in hopes that they would restore her…