Aloha betrayed : native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism / Noenoe K. Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silva, Noenoe K., 1954-

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaiians--Colonization.

Hawaiians.

Hawaiians--Government relations.

Hawaiians--Politics and government.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

History.

Historiography.

International relations.

Colonization.

Hawaii--Annexation to the United States.

Hawaii.

Hawaii--History--Overthrow of the Monarchy, 1893.

Hawaii--Foreign relations--United States.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Hawaii.

Hawaii--Historiography.

Hawaii--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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 the 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.

Contents:

1 Early Struggles with the Foreigners 15

2 Ka Hoku o ka Pakipika: Emergence of the Native Voice in Print 45

3 The Merrie Monarch: Genealogy, Cosmology, Mele, and Performance Art as Resistance 87

4 The Antiannexation Struggle 123

5 The Queen of Hawai'i Raises Her Solemn Note of Protest 164

Appendix A Text of the Objectives of Nupepa Kuokoa, as Published Therein, October 1861 205

Appendix B Songs Composed by Queen Lili'uokalani during Her Imprisonment 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.

ISBN:

0822333503

082233349X

OCLC:

54454872