Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 / Jean Barman, Bruce McIntyre Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barman, Jean, author.

Watson, Bruce McIntyre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaiians--Northwest, Pacific.

Hawaiians.

Polynesians--Northwest, Pacific.

Polynesians.

Hawaiians--Employment--Northwest, Pacific.

Polynesians--Employment--Northwest, Pacific.

National characteristics, Hawaiian.

Frontier and pioneer life--Northwest, Pacific.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific--History.

Fur trade.

Northwest, Pacific--History--18th century.

Northwest, Pacific.

Northwest, Pacific--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 512 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited.Scholars and others interested in a number of fields-Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies-will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Leaving Paradise

2. Maritime Sojourners

3. The Astoria Adventure

4. In the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company

5. Making a Life in the Fur Trade

6. Hawaiians in the Missionary Advance

7. Boundary Making

8. North of the 49th Parallel

9. Moving across the Generations

Hawaiians and Other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest

Glossary

Notes

Sources

General Index

Index of Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest

About the Authors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824874537

0824874536

OCLC:

1024010356