Synopses & Reviews
A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Scholars, community organizers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute essays that explore Native Hawaiian resistance and resurgence from the 1970s to the early 2010s. Photographs and vignettes about particular activists further bring Hawaiian social movements to life. The stories and analyses of efforts to protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions, of the broad-tent sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of state-based sovereignty.
A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as Indigenous cultural revitalization, environmental justice, and demilitarization.
Contributors. Noa Emmett Aluli, Ibrahim G. Aoudandeacute;, Kekuni Blaisdell, Joan Conrow, Noelani Goodyear-Kaand#39;opua, Edward W. Greevy, Ulla Hasager, Pauahi Hoand#39;okano, Micky Huihui, Ikaika Hussey, Manu Kaandlsquo;iama, Leandlsquo;a Malia Kanehe, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Anne Keala Kelly, Jacqueline Lasky, Davianna Pomaikaand#39;i McGregor, Nalani Minton, Kalamaokaand#39;aina Niheu, Katrina-Ann R. Kapaand#39;anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira, Jonathan Kamakawiwoand#39;ole Osorio, Leon Noand#39;eau Peralto, Kekailoa Perry, Puhipau, Noenoe K. Silva, D. Kapuaandlsquo;ala Sproat, Ty P. Kawika Tengan, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Kuhio Vogeler, Erin Kahunawaikaandrsquo;ala Wright
Review
andquot;These are the voices of the beating heart of Kanaka Maoli resistance to the usurpation of Hawaiian land and nationhood. Strong words by good minds, the book is at once an honest reflection on the Hawaiian struggle and a motivating call to action to protect the land and waters and heritage. It is history, it is culture, it is wisdom, it is art, and it is an invaluable contribution to the literature of Indigenous resurgence.andquot;
Review
andquot;No other volume has addressed from so many perspectives the struggles involved in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement of the past four decades. Filled with the voices of senior Native Hawaiian scholars and activists, photos by Edward W. Greevy, telling vignettes, and an introduction that clarifies the stakes of the sovereignty movement, A Nation Rising is an invaluable resource.andquot;
Review
andldquo;The collection of essays is particularly impressive for its intermingling of information on historical processes, ongoing economic and ownership debates (including controversies associated with biocolonialism), and prospects for future mobilization and legal/policy victories against illegal occupation and misappropriation of the Hawaiian Islands. and#160;Quite eye opening, especially for andlsquo;mainlanders,andrsquo; colonizers, and their descendants. . . . Highly recommended.andquot;
Review
andldquo;This book is a timely contribution for a generation responsive to the needs of earth and will be read widely for the empowering stories it tells.andquot;
About the Author
Noelani Goodyear-Kaandrsquo;opua is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiandlsquo;i at Manoa. She is the author of
The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School.
Ikaika Hussey is the Founder and Publisher of the award-winning news magazine the Hawai?i Independent. Ikaika has been a community organizer and advocate for Hawaiian independence for fifteen years.
Erin Kahunawaikaandrsquo;ala Wright is the Director of Native Hawaiian Student Services in the Hawai?inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa.
Edward W. Greevy is a freelance photographer whose career spans more than forty years.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
About the Series xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction / Noelani Goodyear-Kaandrsquo;opua 1
Part I. Life
Portrait. Marie Beltran and Annie Pau: Resistance to Empire, Erasure, and Selling Out / Anne Keala Kelly 36
1. Waiahole-Waikane / Jacqueline Lasky 48
2. andquot;Our History, Our Way!andquot;: Ethnic Studies for Hawaiand#39;iand#39;s People / Davianna Pomaika?i McGregor and Abrahim Aoudandeacute; 66
3. E Ola Mau ka ?Olelo Hawai?i: The Hawaiian Language Revitalization Movement / Katrina-Ann R. Kapa?anaokalaokeloa Nakoa Oliveira 78
4. 4. Kaua?i: Resisting Pressures to Change / Joan Conrow 86
5. Ku i ka Pono: The Movement Continues / Manu Ka?iama 98
Portrait. Sam Kaha?i Ka?ai / Ty P. Kawika Tengan 115
Part II. Land
(Self-)Portrait. Puhipau: The Ice Man Looks Back at the Sand Island Eviction / Puhipau 126
6. Hawaiian Souls: The Movement to Stop the U.S. Military Bombing of Kaho?olawe / Jonathan Kamakawiwo?ole Osorio 137
7. Pu?uhonua: Sanctuary and Struggle at Makua / Kalamaoka?aina Niheu 161
8. Wao Kele O Puna and the Pele Defense Fund / Davianna Pomaika?i McGregor and Noa Emmett Aluli 180
9. A Question of Wai: Seeking Justice through Law for Hawai?iand#39;s Streams and Communities / D. Kapua?ala Sproat 199
10. Aia i Hea ka a Kane? (Where Indeed Is the Water of Kane?): Examining the East Maui Water Battle / Pauahi Ho?okanao 220
Portrait. Mauna a Wakea: Hanau ka Mauna, the Piko of Our Ea / Leon No?eau Peralto 232
Part III. Sovereignty
Portrait. Puanani Rogers / Micky Huihui 246
11. Outside Shangri La: Colonization and the U.S. Occupation of Hawai?i / Kuhio Vogeler 252
12. Make?e Pono Lahui Hawai?i: A Student Liberation Moment / Kekailoa Perry 267
13. Ka Ho?okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli, 1993: The Peoplesand#39; International Tribunal, Hawai?i / Kekuni Blaisdell, Nalani Minton, and Ulla Hasager 283
14. Ke Ku?e Kupa?a Loa Nei K/Makou (We Most Solemnly Protest): A Memoir of 1998 / Noenoe K. Silva 303
15. Resisting the Akaka Bill / J. Kehaulani Kauanu 312
16. Ku?e Mana Mahele: The Hawaiian Movement to Resist Biocolonialism / Leand#39;a Malia Kanehe 354
Bibliography 363
Contributors 379
General Index 383
Index of Personal Names
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