Aloha betrayed : native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism / Noenoe K. Silva.
Material type: TextSeries: American encounters/global interactionsPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822333503
- 9780822333500
- 082233349X
- 9780822333494
- Native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism
- Hawaiians -- Colonization
- Hawaiians -- Government relations
- Hawaiians -- Politics and government
- Imperialism -- History
- Hawaii -- Annexation to the United States
- Hawaii -- History -- Overthrow of the Monarchy, 1893
- Hawaii -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Hawaii
- Hawaii -- Historiography
- Hawaii -- History -- Sources
- 996.902 22
- DU625 .S49 2004
- Also issued online.
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996.902 KIR Feathered gods and fishhooks : an introduction to Hawaiian archaeology and prehistory / | 996.902 NUN To find the way / | 996.902 OSO Dismembering lāhui : a history of the Hawaiian nation to 1887 / | 996.902 SIL Aloha betrayed : native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism / | 996.902 TUG Lapakahi, Hawaii: archaeological studies / | 996.902 WIC Nā pua aliʻi o Kauaʻi : ruling chiefs of Kauaʻi / | 996.902092 LIL Liliʻuokalani / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
Early struggles with the foreigners -- Ka hoku o ka pakipika : emergence of the native voice in print -- The merrie monarch : genealogy, cosmology, mele and performance art as resistance -- The annexation struggle -- The queen of Hawai'i raises her solemn note of protest.
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai'i have been based exclusively on English-language sources. They have not taken into account the thousands of pages of newspapers, books, and letters written in the mother tongue of native Hawaiians. By rigorously analyzing many of these documents, Silva fills a crucial gap in the historical record. In so doing, she refutes the long-held idea that native Hawaiians passively accepted the erosion of their culture and loss of their nation, showing that they actively resisted political, economic, linguistic, and cultural domination. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, Silva demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. A powerful critique of colonial historiography, Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism.
Also issued online.
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