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Ian has been a busy guy. He is working on a set of books that explore music curated by Queen Liliuokalani. We talk about that, his history, and `ukulele playing techniques. Find Ian on Instagram: @musicianosullivan Find Kyle's designs here: https://www.hilifeclothing.com/ Find Devon Nekoba here: @localboy56 Love watching HI*Sessions? Well, now you can join our Patreon community and directly impact our ability to continue making great videos like this one. For as little as $1/mo. you'll get early access to our content as well as cool exclusive stuff for the Patreon community. Visit http://www.patreon.com/hisessions and sign up today! Make sure you subscribe to get notified when we release new videos! Follow HI*Sessions: http://hisessions.com http://www.facebook.com/hisessions http://twitter.com/hisessions
In this episode we are joined by our friend, business partner and United Fund Advisors Co-Founder, Chris Hasle. For over ten years, Chris and his team have served as consultants to Oahu Economic Development Board and our Community Development Entity (CDE) , Punawai O Puuhonua, which was created in partnership with American Savings Bank. Along the way, he and Pono Shim became close friends, navigating the needs and intricacies of business with aloha and how to uplift those areas that need capital investment the most across our islands. Through that CDE and with Chris' support, we have deployed funding to low income communities throughout Hawaii through the CDFI's New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) program. Chris is a founding member of UFA and has worked in the tax credit industry since 2004. As a principal, he is responsible for driving the overall strategy and direction of the company and serving as a liaison to key stakeholders. Mahalo for tuning in! Episode Highlights1:01 About United Fund Advisors2:47 What is the New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Program?5:09 Education, Values and Impact6:23 Job Searching7:02 NMTCs at OEDB through Punawai O Puuhonua; How did you meet Uncle Pono and begin working with NMTCs in Hawaii?13:50 Continental US and Hawaii partnership14:18 Friendship with Pono15:48 Relational vs. Transactional Partnerships16:58 Aloha as an evolving word18:05 Pono's kidney donation19:24 Punawai o Puuhonua's projects across Hawaii22:22 NMTC and Community Impacts: quality jobs, commercial goods and services, social services - healthcare, education, minority owned businesses and indigenous communities, affordable housing, environmentally sustainable outcomes26:06 Favorite NMTC project: Community Transitional School in Portland, Oregon31:27 NMTC Conference and endless opportunity to uplift communities33:00 The catalytic effect of capital investment33:49 Do you have a dream NMTC project?35:18 After doing business in Hawaii for over ten years, are there things that have left an impression on you and/or changed how you do business?37:22 Friendship stories41:38 Growing a good team44:19 Chris: What does the "Above the Sides" podcast name mean?Queen Liliuokalani quote: “I could not turn back the time for the political change, but there is still time to save our heritage. You must remember never to cease to act because you fear you may fail. The way to lose any earthly kingdom is to be inflexible, intolerant, and prejudicial. Another way is to be too flexible, tolerant of too many wrongs, and without judgment at all. It is a razor's edge. It is the width of a blade of pili grass. To gain the kingdom of heaven is to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, and to know the unknowable – that is Aloha. All things in this world are two; in heaven there is but One.”
In this episode of the U.S. Navy History Podcast, hosts Dale the Captain and Christophe the Unflappable XO discuss the historical events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Starting with the recognition of Hawaiian independence in 1846, they delve into the key events leading up to the coup in 1893, supported by American business interests and military intervention, which resulted in the deposition of Queen Liliuokalani. They explore the subsequent political maneuvers, including President Cleveland's investigation and the eventual annexation of Hawaii by the United States in 1898. The episode also briefly touches on the Second Samoan Civil War and previews upcoming discussions on the Banana Wars. The episode concludes by honoring Engineman Second Class Mark Ian Nito, a Navy sailor who sacrificed his life in the attack on the USS Cole. usnavyhistorypodcast@gmail.com @usnhistorypod Discord The Ships Store Hero Cards the Grateful Nation Project — Hero Cards navy-cycling.com
Historien om den sista i raden av det fria Hawaiis regenter. Hon bar på hoppet om en ny gryning för nationens självständighet. Men i den ojämna kampen mot en hungrig, västerländsk elit förlorade hon sin krona och landet sin suveränitet. Nya avsnitt från P3 Historia hittar du först i Sveriges Radio Play. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Cecilia Düringer - programledare och manusbearbetningEmilia Mellberg - producent, manus, researchZardasht Rad - ScenuppläsareViktor Bergdahl - Ljuddesign och slutmixMedverkar gör också Ulf Zander, professor i historia vid Lunds UniversitetVill du veta mer om drottning Lili'oukalani? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Lost Kingdom av Julia Flynn Silver Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani av drottning Lili'oukalaniThe Betrayal of Liliuokalani Last Queen of Hawaii av Helena G. Allen
On this day in 1898, President William McKinley signed a joint resolution annexing the Hawaiian islands to the United States.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Compared to Queen Liliuokalani, Queen Emma gets very little attention in the grand scheme of things. Like her cousin Lili, Emma was born into Hawaiian royalty, but she hardly could have conceived that she would not only be a popular consort but also have the chance to campaign to run the kingdom in her own name. Emma was fashionable, beautiful and a true jewel of the Hawaiian royal family. Come learn about her story on today's episode. Bibliography Bloks, Moniek. “Emma of Hawaii - A Beloved Queen (Part One).” History of Royal Women, February 27, 2019. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/emma-of-hawaii/emma-of-hawaii-a-beloved-queen-part-one/. ———. “Emma of Hawaii - A Beloved Queen (Part Two).” History of Royal Women, March 6, 2019. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/hawaii/emma-of-hawaii-a-beloved-queen-part-two/. Contributors to Wikimedia projects. “Albert Kamehameha.” Wikipedia, January 2, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kamehameha. ———. “Fanny Kekelaokalani.” Wikipedia, September 6, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kekelaokalani. ———. “George Naea.” Wikipedia, July 11, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Naea. ———. “Grace Kamaikui.” Wikipedia, August 31, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kamaikui. ———. “Kamehameha IV.” Wikipedia, January 12, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_IV. ———. “Queen Emma of Hawaii.” Wikipedia, December 31, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Emma_of_Hawaii. ———. “Thomas Charles Byde Rooke.” Wikipedia, November 14, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Charles_Byde_Rooke. Royal Family Hawaii. “Royal Family of Hawaii Official Website.” Accessed February 4, 2023. https://www.crownofhawaii.com/queen-emma-rs.
What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a pivotal and understudied moment in Hawai'ian history. After the coup led by white oligarchs which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawai'ian monarchy, the island chain became the center of international focus and competition, particularly between the empires of Japan and the United States, both of which vied for hegemony and control over Hawai'i's bountiful plantations. Questions about whiteness and race, labor, and immigration are at the center of this history, which recasts the story of Hawai'ian annexation as not an inevitable march of American expansion, but instead as a moment of contingency, which shows just how many possible branches any given historical moment can have. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a pivotal and understudied moment in Hawai'ian history. After the coup led by white oligarchs which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawai'ian monarchy, the island chain became the center of international focus and competition, particularly between the empires of Japan and the United States, both of which vied for hegemony and control over Hawai'i's bountiful plantations. Questions about whiteness and race, labor, and immigration are at the center of this history, which recasts the story of Hawai'ian annexation as not an inevitable march of American expansion, but instead as a moment of contingency, which shows just how many possible branches any given historical moment can have. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a pivotal and understudied moment in Hawai'ian history. After the coup led by white oligarchs which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawai'ian monarchy, the island chain became the center of international focus and competition, particularly between the empires of Japan and the United States, both of which vied for hegemony and control over Hawai'i's bountiful plantations. Questions about whiteness and race, labor, and immigration are at the center of this history, which recasts the story of Hawai'ian annexation as not an inevitable march of American expansion, but instead as a moment of contingency, which shows just how many possible branches any given historical moment can have. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a pivotal and understudied moment in Hawai'ian history. After the coup led by white oligarchs which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawai'ian monarchy, the island chain became the center of international focus and competition, particularly between the empires of Japan and the United States, both of which vied for hegemony and control over Hawai'i's bountiful plantations. Questions about whiteness and race, labor, and immigration are at the center of this history, which recasts the story of Hawai'ian annexation as not an inevitable march of American expansion, but instead as a moment of contingency, which shows just how many possible branches any given historical moment can have. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies
What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a pivotal and understudied moment in Hawai'ian history. After the coup led by white oligarchs which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawai'ian monarchy, the island chain became the center of international focus and competition, particularly between the empires of Japan and the United States, both of which vied for hegemony and control over Hawai'i's bountiful plantations. Questions about whiteness and race, labor, and immigration are at the center of this history, which recasts the story of Hawai'ian annexation as not an inevitable march of American expansion, but instead as a moment of contingency, which shows just how many possible branches any given historical moment can have. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west
How can Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, the hymn Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour, and the Park Street Church in Boston all be included in the same story with Fanny Crosby? It isn't easy, but the podcast today will help tie in the connections. Of greater significance than these peripheral actions, however, is the incredible body of hymns and poems written by Fanny Crosby. To say she was prolific does not do justice to the thousands of hymns and poems she wrote. Further, it is hard to imagine she didn't write her first hymn until she was forty-four. Her love for Jesus caused her to overflow in song and poetry. This hymn, Saved by Grace, was one that came to her after she heard about the unexpected death of a minister she had heard earlier in the week. Fanny realized that in heaven she would be healed of her blindness and she would see her Saviour face to face. How great was the opening of her eyes, and may we desire to grasp what she anticipated. For something new, I want to announce that an email address has been set up for comments and questions about the podcast. If you would like to send a comment, please send an email to turninyourhymnalto@frontier.com . I look forward to hearing from you. Article taken from Living Stories of Famous Hymns by Ernest K. Emurian. Copyright © 1955 by Baker Book House Company. Used by permission of Baker Book House Company.
On January 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate, the first step towards the islands' annexation as a US territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union. Interest in Hawaii began in America as early as the 1820s, when New England missionaries tried in earnest to spread their faith there, but only really became serious in 1880s when Queen Liliuokalani began trying to return power to the indigenous Hawaiian people. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly discuss the contemporary US efforts to make amends for the past; look at Queen Liliuokalani's many talents, including composition; and speculate that Parents' Day at the Hawaiian Chief's Children's School must have been an awkward affair… Further Reading: • ‘Five Things To Know About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi' (Smithsonian Magazine, 2017): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-about-liliuokalani-last-queen-hawaii-180967155/ • ‘Queen Lili‘uokalani - The First and Last Queen of Hawai‘i' (PBS, 2020): https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/queen-liliuokalani-the-first-and-last-queen-of-hawaii-kx2oc7/15032/ • ‘Aloha Dying - A Hawaii Documentary' (Cody Brooks, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMa-NHZRCA&t=2115s #US #Black #Person Love the show? Join
We hope you enjoy this rerelease of one of our favorite episode: Episode 31. Originally released on June 29, 2020, you will hear us discuss one of our favorite elected officials ever, Buddy Cianci. He was quite a character and reminded us of Tina's favorite show, The Sopranos. Hillary and Tina cover the illegal occupation of Hawaii and former Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci. Hillary's Story The island chain of Hawaii was ruled by the Kingdom of Hawaii beginning in 1795, but in 1893, the United States unlawfully invaded the island leading to an overthrow of the Hawaiian government. Tina's Story Buddy Cianci served as the longest serving mayor of Providence, Rhode Island from 1975-1984, and again from 1991-2002. But, when the FBI gets wind of a possible corruption scandal, Buddy may have been too buddy buddy with local scoundrels and found himself in the muck. 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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 529, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Real Ghosts? 1: Not one but two of this king's six wives are said to haunt Hampton Court Palace. Henry VIII. 2: Glamis Castle in this U.K. country has several ghosts, including an earl who gambled with the devil, and lost. Scotland. 3: Screaming ghosts have been heard at the old Lalaurie House on Royal Street in this section of New Orleans. the French Quarter. 4: This magician who died on Halloween is said to haunt the ruins of his Hollywood Hills estate. Houdini. 5: A violent ghost called the Bell Witch allegedly murdered John Bell in this "Volunteer State" in 1820. Tennessee. Round 2. Category: Economics 1: Economists say if the rate of this is 2 or 3% a year, it's normal; if it's "galloping", it's bad. Inflation. 2: It represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy; President Clinton tried to reform it in his first term. Healthcare. 3: Holders of this type of stock take precedence over common stock holders. Preferred. 4: It's a government takeover of a private industry, like steel in postwar Britain. Nationalization. 5: First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, he's the author of a widely used college textbook. Paul Samuelson. Round 3. Category: 1893 1: U.S. interests deposed Queen Liliuokalani of this kingdom, paving the way for its annexation. Hawaii. 2: More than 100,000 rushed to the Cherokee Strip area of this territory to claim land. Oklahoma. 3: Lord Stanley of Preston gave a trophy to be awarded to the best Canadian team in this sport. hockey. 4: Laos was added to this French Southeast Asian dependency. Indochina. 5: This state's governor, John Peter Altgeld, pardoned the 3 surviving Haymarket Riot conspirators. Illinois. Round 4. Category: The Census 1: The Census Bureau bought its first electronic one of these in 1951, the UNIVAC. Computer. 2: This large, untaxed group was counted for the first time in the 1860 census. Indians. 3: The cost of the last major U.S. census held in this year was $10.40 a head. 1990. 4: The Bureau of the Census is part of this cabinet department that also includes the Patent Office. Commerce. 5: 200 years ago it was near Chestertown, Md.; today it's 9.7 miles SE of Steelville, Mo.. the population center of the U.S.. Round 5. Category: Amphibious Invasions 1: In WWI, an Allied amphibious assault on this Dardanelles port city collapsed after the Turks counterattacked. Gallipoli. 2: Landing at Sussex, his forces invaded Britain by sea on September 28, 1066. William the Conqueror. 3: The 5-beach attack in this momentous operation was known as the Montgomery Plan. D-Day (Normandy). 4: Supported by catapults mounted on the invasion ships, he landed 2 legions of soldiers near Dover in 55 B.C.. Julius Caesar. 5: In 1759 Gen. James Wolfe sailed up the St. Lawrence River to capture this Canadian city. Quebec. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Hawaii's new youth poet laureate, Kalehua Fung joins us on 'Muthaship' this week! She shares her winning poem inspired by Queen Liliuokalani. Fung says it's a story about the quilt the queen made during the overthrow of Hawaii. Fung says it took her an hour to write and she's still in shock over her big win. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nackie and Carl talk about the event that she covered this weekend (PIEFEST) and Queen Liliuokalani.
the land is my ancestorPatty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking about. Because it's just such a, it's just such a neat way of thinking and understanding our relationship with the other than human world and our connection to place, and all of that. And so yeah, so now I'm going to let you introduce yourself. And what you mean by that phrase, when you say the land is our ancestor,KeoluRoger that. Aloha everybody, my name is Keolu Fox and my mo'oku'auhau, or my genealogical connection or origin is to the Kohala Kapaʻau which is the northernmost district of the Big Island of Hawaii. And I'm joining you from the Kumeyaay nation here in La Jolla. And it's a beautiful day, it's always a beautiful day here. But I'm a genome scientist, I focus on all kinds of things. And mostly, I have been really thinking about that idea.And I've been centering around that idea for a little bit. Because many of you know, there have been a lot of things going on where we live, where we're from the Big Island right now. Our volcano is active, and Pele is letting her hair down. But we have another very sacred place. And that's Mauna a Wākea, Mauna Kea, right? There have been all of these protests in this, this tension that's kind of like, played out in a lot of different ways. Because we have a problem with settler colonialism. And we have scientists, who would rather seek authorization instead of instead of consensus building and taking care to actually asked our people what we want.And so I thought about this idea of like, what is actually shaping our genomes over time, right? We always have these comments about our, our genealogical connection to the Āina, right? Like one of my favorite online scholars, was a medical doctor, his name's Dr. N. Emmett Aluli., is always saying the health of the land is the health of the people and the health of the people is the health of the land. And when you think about that, historically, it's actually the same thing. So, what our community is saying about a, hey do you need to dig four stories into the Earth, into this Āina, you know, not only our ancestors buried there, and there’s fresh water aquifers, and there's, it's a very sacred place for cultural protocol. But it's also our ancestor.And so I think that gets lost to a lot of my Western colleagues with a certain worldview, they're, they're willing to accept the idea that, you know, natural selection, and Charles Darwin and these finches on these islands have been shaped by this different geography. But they're not willing to accept it in terms of humans, because they're human exceptionalists. So from our point of view, it's like, we are, the Mauna, the Mauna is us, it really has shaped our genomes. So has the ebb and flow of the moana, the ocean. So has high elevation in the Himalayas. So in that sense, you know, I think Indigenous people have it right, because we have not really completely separated ourselves from the Āina.That's why we believe in sustainability. We, you know, indigeneity is sustainability. Like it's the, it's synonymous. And I can give you a bunch of examples, but I think, I think that idea is really powerful, because it allows you to like, with just complete fluidity, connect all of these really important ideas around natural selection and evolution, and also Indigenous epistemology. And if you look historically to like the ways we talk about biological complexity in the Kumulipo, which is an ancient origin chant, which was famously translated by Queen Liliuokalani. And you'll see that like, if you look at where this this, this story starts this chant is Pule, where it begins is with like darkness. Right? And then we get into single celled organisms, slime molds, and then we build up the complexity you see over time. And, and, and I'm not like an authority scholar on that. But I think it's so important that it's not. It's not wrong at all. You know, in fact, it was right before, maybe somebody like Charles Darwin had put it together in English. So I think that's a really important idea. And the ways that we think about evolution and natural selection in our relationship to the Āina is really important.Patty Yeah, I'm reading right now, though, I always have, like, so many books close to me, Salmon and Acorns, Feed Our People. And early on in the book, she kind of makes a very similar point, because she's talking about the Kuruk people in Northern California, and the interconnectedness of the salmon and the water and the people and the geography and, you know, and how we impact the environment and the environment impacts them. And it goes, you know, and everything just kind of keeps weaving, weaving back and forth. It. And I think you're right, I mean, in that connection that we have, that is indigeneity, the, you know, kind of that maintaining that connection, but now I you know, as we talk about that, you know, I'm looking at Kerry, who's part of the you know, the African diaspora who maybe doesn't know, you know, kind of she talks about, you know, connecting with Ghana, but not, I'm gonna let you talk about that.After you turn your mic on, I'm gonna let you talk about that*laughter* Today, I learned from AW Peet to talk about turning your mic on rather than being mute. Yeah, I can you're going to be ableist. learn from AW on a daily basis. I love them.Kerry Okay, thank you for that reminder, because I have the headset going and then clicked off. And I didn't realize both really does matter. So anyway, what was coming to mind for me as I was listening to this conversation, and, you know, just feeling into this information. You know, what just came up just from, like, I think it's that soul space is, of course we are, and what comes up when we think about, you know, the earth, you know, the space of our being, being connected through this human genome being a part of the earth and all of it being interconnected. Why? What I what I believe has happened is, as we have moved into this colonial space, that disconnection is been such a disruption that has affected our genome, and had has us acting in ways that is not like ourselves, and what what I take when we think about myself and my, my Blackness, in, in my wanting to know, where my where I come from, I feel into this ancestral memory. And I know, it's an epigenetic memory of something that my, my ancestry has not known for a very long time. And yet, I feel it. And that's why when we are having this conversation, I was so interested, I've been reading and listening and watching some of your work in the last day, actually, I really sat down and watched it. And it's, it makes me go in, it makes me go to that deep space. And what what do we offer out? Or what words would you offer out for those of us who don't have that direct connection? And yet the earth that special, that special link is calling us?KeoluHmm, I think that is a brilliant question. And I think like couching it that way, too, because of the forced migration of people is still a diaspora. Right? And that is a really powerful and important idea in terms of thinking about, it's not just shaping our genome or mo'oku'auhau and our genealogy but we have this term we love in Hawaii and it's Ka mua, ka muri, and it means walking backwards into the future. And actually, we say that all throughout throughout the moanoculture. So Tahiti, Marquesas, Samoa, Maori, like we all We all say this this term. And I think it's a really important thing to think about.So when we like when we think about our radiation and diaspora, across the Pacific, if I just focus on island people, we have a founder people who are on waapa, right? They're on boats, they're going they find a new place. They represent like a fraction of that genomic diversity that existed in the original place or position. That's not so different than a forced migration. No, I mean, very similar. Then you have the arrival later, of settlers, and you get like these population collapses. And so what happens is that population that's made it to Hawaii, or you know, really any Indigenous community from Hernan Cortes, to James Cook, this encounter with colonialism, again, shapes our genome, and we can see this, when we look at the genomes of modern Indigenous people, we can see this decrease in human leukocyte antigen HLA diversity. So in that sense, it's like, the geography shapes our genome over time. It does, we are the Āina, but so do our encounters with genocide, so do our encounters with and those are like, that means that everybody that's, that's Hawaiian, for example, is a survivor of that event.It also means that the way we attenuate inflammation, which is the root cause of common complex disease, from everything from heart disease, to cancer to and, you know, insulin sensitivity, COVID-19, all of these things are a reflection of our history. Now, our methods are getting so sensitive at identifying these things, that it's a matter of maybe asking ethical questions and saying, maybe we need more people from our communities to ask the hard questions, to build these and help prioritize these scientific questions. And iteratively kind of co-design and co-partner with the communities that we come from, because the truth is, these are hard questions to ask. Like, like, I think in our lifetimes, we will be able to determine what the impact on people's health is of the transatlantic slave trade.And that is not a question for me to ask, though. Right. And I and I don't think that like that positionality, like, when I started this job, as a professor, someone told me, “You know, we think it's weird that you're Hawaiian, and you would want to work with Hawaiian communities. That's not objective.” And I had to fall back for a second, I was like, I'm really shocked that you would ask that some anybody would say that, you know, but that is how like, that is the status quo. And how brainwashed people are in academia like that is how few people from our communities make it into these leadership positions to be primary investigators for these major projects. These people are so not in tune with being like they work with, like Margaret Mead or something, right? Like, she's not Samoan. That's why she had all these dumb ideas. Right? Right. Like think about it like that would never?You know, there's just tremendous insight that our people have when we work with our communities. One, if you f**k up, you can't go home for Christmas. Go home for the holidays you’re already home. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like there's, there's like a kuleana, like an obligation to your people and our health and all these other things. But also, it's like ensuring that the questions we ask are prioritized by our communities. I think I think we're getting there. And I think the way that we're interpreting the data is so much more advanced too, you know, and we're just getting started. So it's gonna be a beautiful future. But, you know, but I think that these questions aren't, aren't easy to ask, you know, soPatty You talk about Just So Stories that you know, the Rudyard Kipling stories, but then you apply them to the scientific process. And that's kind of what this is making me think is, you know, because we come up with these ideas, or we like scientists, colonial scientists come up with these ideas, and who is in the room takes very much what questions are being asked, Can you unpack that a little bit about the Just So Story so that people know what I'm talking about?KeoluYeah, that's a that's, that's a great like, it's a child’s story from Rudyard Kipling. who like if people who are listening don't know you, maybe you've heard of The Jungle Book, or you heard of the book Kim. Some of these old school, you know, they're like pretty colonial they take place in India, mostly. But he wrote this child's book for his daughter. And the book kind of has these funny stories where they explain like why is the elephant's nose so long? Well the elephants nose is so long because they got tugged on for 30 minutes by an alligator when he was trying to drink some water or whatever, right? But what what these two scientists in this I want to say late 70s? Peter No. Yeah, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. What they did is they said well, these these ideas are used to explain evolutionary things like their their adapt their what they call adaptionist narrative. So it's like, I can use an evolutionary narrative to explain innateness and this gets really dangerous and can become super racist, because it's used to justify shitty correlative science.So, so and I had this mentor and he would always tell me, you know, tell me 2genes, any two genes in the genome, there's like 20,000 genes, and buy me a whiskey and I'll tell you a story. And what he was trying to say was, I can make a correlative story about anything statistically. But that doesn't mean that it like mechanistically is true. So what you see is people invoking adaptionism, natural selection and evolution, to justify really racist science that discredits the accomplishments of Indigenous people, for example.So one of the examples I love to give is this Thrifty Gene narrative where they're like, oh, you know, and, you know, we know, we know, we're not dummies, we know we have a problem with type two diabetes and obesity in our community. We also know that Hawaiian people are really big, Samoan people are really big. We're all big. But part of it has to do with, you know, many different factors. Part of it is colonialism, because you took away our access to the reefs, and our rights around land stewardship, and hunting and fishing and all these other things. So when you replace those traditional food ways with spam, white rice and soy sauce, what do you think you get? Right.But when you say that the reason we have this problem is is a genetic innateness. That comes from our diaspora. That's racist, right? So why do those narratives get perpetuated in really popular scientific journals, they end up in the media, and it comes down to discrediting our voyaging accomplishments. Because if you've ever talked to any navigator, they'll tell you, these waapa, these boats were filled to the brim with sweet potato, taro, pigs, chicken, all kinds of things, there was never a problem with like scarcity of calories. So how would we develop a problem where we become sensitive to or have problems with hyper caloric storage in a modern-day setting? You see what I'm saying?And so like it gets, it gets wound up and entangled into these racist narratives in the way that they describe, maybe genome sequence data. What we do see with this mutation in this gene, it's called CRE BRF. And it's privately found in the Pacific amongst Hawaiians, we've even found it in the Chamorro and Guam. And what we see with it is it's actually associated with muscle density. And there was a follow up study, I believe in Aotearoa. It's showing that Polynesian rugby players of a, you know, of Polynesian or Maori ancestry have a higher frequency of this mutation. So it's more like a tall, dark and handsome mutation that has to do with BMI and athletic performance than it is like a thrifty mutation that predisposes us to obesity. But do you see how different it is when I'm just choosing that, that as an example, we could do this with sickle cell? We could be like, Oh, it makes people from Equatorial Africa weak. Or we could say no, this is, this is actually truly remarkable in the way that how many people have died from malaria, you know, so it's really about it's really about how you interpret the mutations and what they actually do. But if you don't have mechanistic evidence, then why are you making up and spinning these b******t narratives that discredit our accomplishments as people?Kerry I'm really just fascinated with this conversation and and where you're going with this because one of the pieces I was reading when you were speaking, talks about how most of the studies when we look at the genome, when we look at you know, breaking down the genetic understanding of things really has not done has not been done on Indigenous and People of Color. And so, you know, hearing you break that down, because we too have supposedly a pre disposition for type two diabetes and high blood pressure. It gives that different perspective. And I remember once I don't know, I remember hearing Oprah speak about that in the Black community. And I don't know who she she had been speaking to a scientist of some sort. And I remember some of the information that came out was the one of the reasons why from a Black standpoint, we seem to have had a propensity, because we, even in the Middle Passage, why we survived some of the challenges was because we had an ability to take in salt, our ability to hold salt in our thing, which does lead to the type two diabetes or the high blood pressure. But because we had this mutation, it actually was one of those things that afforded us to survive the atrocities of that passage, because we were able to to absorb and survive less, or our salt intakes kept our water levels or our electrolytes higher, something along those lines. Don't quote me, it was a long time ago, that I heard that, but I remember that stuck to me, because it's what you're speaking about, it's the way that the perspectives are put forward to us. Right. And, you know, normally when we put it that way, it's almost, I've always seen it, or the system puts those those narratives out to us, to keep us feeling less than. That somehow, right, somehow that structurally, our genetic or genomes or makeup is not, as you know, valuable, or as put together as some. And when we then talk about this idea that it has not, we haven't even been studied in the same way. How, how does those two things play off of each other?KeoluYes. Yeah. I mean, um, so first and foremost, I'm so glad you mentioned that, that, that it's like we're taking a, pardon the pun, but it's a minority of the data, if it's 90% of genome wide studies, they've mostly included people of Western European ancestry. So, you're making all these inferences and narrativizing data? You know, less than 1% of these studies have included Indigenous people, very small percentages of included individuals of African ancestry, and that's a continent.I want to put some things into context. It's like that is the origin of mankind. We spent more time there than anywhere else on planet Earth, it has more genetic diversity, languages, cultural diversity, food, culture. I mean, it is heritage, it's it's so to reduce it again, as a monolith to one continent isn't nuts, that's one. And then, and then we have all of these other conversations that go around there. And to your point about the the salt slavery hypertension hypothesis, which is a very, which is a very interesting idea. Again, it's a narrative that's popularized, but but again, it's not been taken to task in a way where it's either been proven or disproven, because we don't have enough data for that.So of course, when you build narratives, it's going to be it's not going to be in service of a community, you're not going to ask questions about how much stress to these people have every day? Is that a factor? What about people's diets? What about people's access to healthy food, and all of these other kind of metrics that are probably more informative and predictive of people's health. So I'm not saying that genomics doesn't play a role it does. But again, the the way that you we create narratives around it. Now then let's look at the other side of the coin, because this is the most brutal part 95% of clinical trials feature white people. So, we're not even designing drugs for our people in the way that we were like, designing drugs for one population and then giving it to other people.Or I worked in blood transfusion research for a while. And we would have 90% of people who donate blood are white, and then and then the, the kind of inverse of that, you know, sickle cell patients are Black. You see what I'm saying? Like it's a it's a stark contrast. We're literally giving somebody a temporary organ, we're infusing them with blood that includes all types of diversity of RNA from one other, you've seen what mRNA can do now. Having, now we're taking RNA from one person and giving it to another and we're not really thinking about what the consequences of that are. So I'm just saying we've not really thought everything through it a more thoughtful way, because we haven't had the attention to detail with population specific medicine. And I'm hoping that over the next few decades, that becomes something that's really importantKerry That, that I love that so much that really resonates with me because my brother, my brother in law, actually doesn't have sickle cell. But he carries the sickle cell trait. And he also carries the Thalassemia traits. And interestingly, we were just together, it's our, it's our Thanksgiving here in Canada. And we were just down at I was just over at their house. And he's having an episode, where yeah, he's having a sickle cell episode. And it's, you know, he's had several over the years, he's, you know, he's been in our family for 30 years, and I can’t even believe that, but um, we, you know, he's been around. And what we've noticed is my, my niece carries the sickle cell trait, and she gets mild symptoms, she gets very mild, like, sometimes, you know, the fingers tingle, she'll have a stressful event and, you know, really be in pain at the extremities and some of the same things that her father has, but not to the same degree. And well, it's interesting when you bring this up, it, it tells me how little we understand, because technically, he doesn't have the disease. And yet he gets exactly the symptoms, and it has been treated in the same ways, even though they're not exactly sure how and why it's happening. And I bring that up, because it's exactly what you're saying that there's there's, the studies don't extend far enough. Right. And while there, we manage it, it's it's almost been like, I shouldn't say this, but when when the doctors that have been treating him for a long time get around, he's been like a test subject, a bit of a unique case. And it's been trial and error. You know, they've tried different things to see what's worked, and thank goodness. I mean, he's, we can get him through them. But it's, it was something that struck me that it's a unique space, and not very much is known about how to make it work for him. So they, you know, throw things at it. It's hope it's been it sticks so far. Right?KeoluYeah. I mean, we I mean, you know, things get even more complex, when you're you come from a place like Hawaii, they showed in the census data, that we are the most diverse state state in the United States of America. And we, I mean that in by and that's like a long shot. And also we have the highest percentage of mixed ancestry people. And it's been like that for a while. And you know, and that that means that things get a little more complex. And we need to really think about what the future of medicine is going to look like, especially if it's predictive and preventative.Patty 28:10I’m just thinking it's not that long ago that people were saying that Indigenous people were genetically predisposed to alcoholism. I remember hearing that as a kid. And I think there was a brochure had just come out not that long ago. About some Cree guides, it was a, it was a fishing camp. In northern, I think it was Manitoba, did not to give alcohol to the guides, because they're genetically predisposed to alcoholism. And it was like, these ideas and they take root. They take root, and they don't go anywhere, because they keep medicine, you know, Western medicine, Western scientists, they keep looking for the problem in us. There is something wrong with our genetics, something wrong with our makeup, you got to fix us. There's nothing wrong with colonialism. And with the imposition of you know, this change in diet. And I mean, one of the things in this book that they talk about is the salmon run and how it's gone. It's 4% of what had happened. And that's, you know, so that's a significant change in their diet, which leads to a significant change in their health. You know, because like you said, now they're eating spam and flour.KeoluOh, yeah. I think that's so fascinating. It's like we it's kind of like a slippery slope Sometimes, though, because we can point to actual examples where where we are, I mean, and sickle cell is such a great example. And so is high elevation, adaption and all of these incredible ways in which we are a reflection of the Āina. You know, but when I tell my colleagues, we're going to empirically measure the impact of colonialism on the genome, they're like, whoa whoa whoa, I don't like that. We don't like that. You know, and you have to think about it. I mean, it's it's about how we choose to. I mean, I obviously like I often do that to make people feel uncomfortable, because I want them to know how we felt going through these medical schools and education programs throughout the whole time, because now we're wielding the power of being able to prioritize the question, and that's unique now. And it feels good. But but but also, but also, um, we want it to have impact. You know, I don't we don't want to tell people where they came from. That's not important to us. That's not a question we prioritize. But if it has a role in thinking about how we can predict and prevent disease, or create treatments that speak to our history, then that's important. And I think I think we're getting there. And yeah, we just, you know, we need to we need more students that like and where the prototype Wait, till you see the next generation? Man? They're like,Patty Yeah, well, I know. You know, we, we have been talking about, you know, studying Kerry often talks about epigenetics, you know, kind of studying the long term impacts of trauma. And I've heard a few people asking what where's the long term studies on the impact of affluence or influence on the impact of greed on some of these ultra wealthy families? What how does that affect their genome? Like, are they genetically predisposed to being selfish a******s? What's going on?KeoluRegarding the epigenetic stuff, we have a new project that we're working on. And yeah, and I mean, I think we're gonna get get to the point of point, point and position where we have tools that are sensitive enough to, you know, ask answer the questions that we that we have, and provide solutions that might result in better better treatments for our people, right.And one of them is the effect of testing nuclear bombs in the Pacific. And this is, you know, my auntie, who is a female, Native Hawaiian colonel, she's retired now. Amazing person. But she spent a lot of time in various places. And I mean, the things that we've we, you know, she's she's told me about and the types of health infrastructure that exists and the rates of different types of cancer that are telltale signatures of nuclear radiation exposure. I mean, it is just astonishing, what you'll see in the Marshall Islands and how Henry Kissinger is like, ah, 50,000 people, that's just a statistic, who cares? Or Jacques Chirac, reinstating nuclear testing programs in French Polynesia, or, you know, among the Tuamotu Island archipelgaos there and Mururoa. And the rates of cancer were seen. And these are telltale signatures, you know, the, the thyroid cancers, the lymph node cancers, the leukemias, and I guess the question is, one, can you detect that? Is it is it going to be a signature of in the genome that is independent of inherited cancer? Is it baked into the genome in a transgenerational way, which would be, that'd be epigenetic inheritance, which in my opinion, is straight up genocide, there should be real reparations for this. And then can we design better types of chemotherapy that speak to that, because if it is, has a unique architecture, and it is a unique signature, then we need better drugs for our people. And the French people need to pay for it. And those are the facts.And so and so here, we are now approaching new questions that we can use these tools for ones that allow us to move forward in terms of medical advancement, but also in terms of our goals of achieving justice. And I am so stoked about these new projects, because I feel like I was born for this s**t. Also, also, because we're capable, and our people deserve better. You know, and I think that's going to inspire other scientists who are way more brilliant than, than I am. To, to come up with with with solutions. But this these are some of the new projects that we're working on.And I'm not afraid of the French government. They know what they did. They tested 193 nuclear bombs over from 1966 to 1996. Think about how recent that is, wow. And then they had the nerve to name their new hospital after Jacques Chirac. And that was when I was like in Paeete in Tahiti, that's such a slap in the face. So from my point of view, and these are my brothers and sisters, you know, those are my my ancestors, my kupuna so you got to understand when you test nuclear bombs in the Pacific, it doesn't just sit there. I mean, you have ocean currents, wind currents, I mean, some of the stuff we're hearing about. So, and those happen to be this is the most important part, these happen to be questions that that community has prioritized as far as health issues go. So here we are.Patty Yeah. And it's, and that's so important because they, they come, people come in, they have these ideas, they want to, you know, with colonial, you know, they see the problem, they're gonna fix it, they're gonna, you know, they're, and then they're, you know, they're doing their studies and their, you know, their outcome measures and all the rest of it. And there's no, there's no relationship, there's no relationship building, at the front end, any relationship that they start is just so that they can come in and help and so that they can come in and fix this. And it's like, they keep doing this. And things just keep getting worse from our point of view. But then that just keeps clearing more land from their point of view. So I understand why ...KeoluMm hmm.Kerry That, you know, I think it gives a new meaning to that saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I very often feel that, you know, it's too we see how there seems to be a playbook. And the playbook shows up over and over and over. And any Indigenous any, you know, native communities of any origin around the world. And that idea that the Western colonial system has to come in and fix us. Right, Oh, normally has that underlying agenda, where, you know, they're, they're coming to help. But then, you know, it was like a backhanded help. Because we're, we're always, you know, ass out, pardon my French, you know, especially with the French and any of the other colonials that have come in and created the systems to which we're now having to dig out and build our resiliency up against. And that's, I think, also, another part of this that I'd love to see or hear what your thoughts on about it, is the remarkable way that we have been able to adjust and adapt. Right. Yeah, I really think that that's something that has been so powerful amongst peopleKeoluYeah, I totally agree with that. I'm, my mom is such a genius. She's like the Hawaiian MacGyver, you know, like, she just really figures out ways to engineer all kinds of systems with limited resources. And we live in a pretty rural, isolated place. And, you know, I'm on the phone with her. And she's like, oh, yeah, the truck door, it's not coming for three months, it's on backorder, or this generator part. It's not, it's not coming. But we did this, and so on and so forth. And you see how much ingenuity and genius exists in our communities in all these beautiful ways. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Unless, you know, things became very differently.Now, when we contrast like where we live with other areas, where there's like hotel and tourism, infrastructure, I mean, the things that they need come like *finger snap*, you know, agriculture from the mainland, protein from the mainland, other things. So you just see this contrast and like, what about when we need medical things in our community in the outer islands? Why are you prioritizing capitalism, and profit over our community's health just over and over and over and over again. And I can point to our toxic relationship with tourism throughout this pandemic, because we had an opportunity to push the reset button, right, we had an opportunity to reform and recalibrate and we didn't do it. And that's because we have too many corrupt politicians that are you know what I mean, I'm gonna call it like I see it. I just feel like we had the opportunity to move forward with other forms other, just develop forms of our circular economy, an island system that has all forms of renewable energy.I mean, the island that we live on alone has 11 out of 13 biomes on planet Earth, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet Earth. So why are we the extinction capital of the world? Why are we the invasive species capital of the world? Right? Why do you want to build a golf course here? You know, that's stupid. That's not even a sport, you don't even sweat when you play that I'm talking about. So like that we are very familiar with all these, I mean, the forms of exploitation and the forms of of genius and ingenuity and Futurism, you know, I think that Hawaii is a really incredible place for that. We will continue and whether it's agriculture or ranching or energy sustainability solutions, oceanic sciences, geology, like anything, that's why all these people want to come to our islands to make hay. You know, you know, that we've been, we've been prac .. How do you think we found these islands? Science? You know? So,Patty yeah, like, when you think like you had talked earlier about, you know, kind of about the Pacific, diaspora and, and, you know, kind of traveling, those are some pretty huge distances requiring some pretty significant knowledge of not just celestial navigation, but winds and ocean currents, and who else is out there, and things that want to eat you and making sure that you have enough food. You know, and who are you gonna call for help when you're on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you got to be pretty resourceful. And like, we don't, we don't often think about that. And that's like, you know, we're so impressed with you know, Columbus, right? It was just Columbus, Indigenous peoples, or whatever. You know, and whoo, you know, he crossed the ocean, whatever. And, you know, 1492, you know, and that was such a major accomplishment. But y'all were all over the Pacific a long time before that.KeoluYou're preaching to the choir, you know, honestly, I just wrote this piece for Indigenous People’s day, Indigenous futures day. And I told you earlier before it's late, yeah. So it'll be out in like, the next 24 hours. But it's about many of those ideas. I mean, we had all of these we had and have all of these super complex. I mean, if you ever get to work or meet some of these master navigators, I mean, they are, they are treasures, like Hawaiian treasures. You know, I mean, they're not all Hawaiin. And, you know, but they're there throughout the Pacific. But, I mean, you're talking about bird migration patterns for land, finding birds, the green turquoise glint on the bottom of a cloud that lets you identify a lagoon from 300 miles away. I mean, you work with these people, and you understand that. It's humbling, you know, people that that are that are operating, and have that skill set.And yeah, I mean, we just got we it was the fastest in less than 1000 years, our kupuna traversed a territory or space of the space of Eurasia, and it wasn't just unidirectional, right. It's like, oceanic superhighway. Complex, dynamic routes back and forth. And I think we're still only beginning to understand what, how truly remarkable that level of travel and comfort on the ocean was. And then when you talk about, like being in tune with the Āina, and how the ocean shapes your genome, I mean, we're talking about people that really understood navigation. And if you're ever out there in the middle of the ocean, and it's not at night, because at night, it gives you a little comfort, and you can use the Milky Way. Right. But, but I mean, during the day, it's just like overwhelmingly confusing. But over there with with the, you know, the Inuit and the Yupik that very similar, I've been been to that part of town and I'm like, oh, it's white everywhere. And it's kind of scary.Patty It just keeps going. I’ve been up to Iqaluit on Baffin Island. You don't want to leave, like my son lived. My son lived there for 18 months. And he would like to go hiking out on the on the tundra. And he was warned, don't go too far. Like make sure that you can keep certain landmarks in sight. Because you get past the wrong hill. And you're done. You can walk for three days and you won't find anything. So you know to navigate that is just .. and yet they navigated it circumpolar navigation there. You know, traveling across it only looks far apart. And then you tip the Earth on its side and you can see how connected those circumpolar people are and how actually close together they are. And we forget, we don't think about it like that, because we're so used to looking at the Globe in a particular way. And it's a very Eurocentric way of looking at it.KeoluOh, yeah. No doubt about that. But I saw these little maps, these wooden carved maps, and they were made. I forget, I want to say it was Upik. But it might have been anyway. But it was a used by people who are hunting. They use it as a way to like, understand the coastline in which they're cruising. Oh, I forget what it's called. Yeah, I'll try to find it. I'll send it to you guys afterwards. “Yeah, probably, it's called this.”Patty:*laughing* And I'll remember what you were talking about.Kerry I love that so much. You see what I'm what really comes to me through this whole course of the conversation is what how brilliant. We all are. And, and when we are given the opportunity to stand and feel into and create our own truths. It shifts this enormous and enormously, we shift the space, we really get these new, innovative, which really are connecting back into the old ways anyway. But we can we can get this beautiful space of melding the old, into the new and refreshing allowing ourselves to remember what I think we've already known. And and when I hear, you know, that they're, they're now starting to study the how how people were navigating the seas, and that, you know, it's like a superhighway. And once again, what keeps resoundingly in my head, I always say the ancestors sit on my shoulders. And I'm hearing somebody's going, of course, it was, you know, sometimes we are so removed, because of the view that we sit in right from this colonial Western viewpoint. That it always was. And we're not just talking about, like a period of time, we're talking about real time, people who were living their lives, people who were, you know, creating these experiences, you know, determining their destinies and the end the laneways of the oceans. And I think it's so important to bring that piece of the humanity back, understanding that Mother Earth, Gaia, whatever we want to call this space was connected to that space connected to that be. And I think that's what innately we bring. If that makes sense.KeoluOh, absolutely. It makes sense. I was reading this thing recently about the way that whale bladders are used to make all of the, the skin for the different kayak. They did like this mathematical approximation of like, what would be the perfect aerodynamic or hydrogen dynamic dimensions of this watercraft? And what would it look like if you were to, like, optimize it. And the I mean, over time, First Nations people hit it on the nose, it's absolutely perfectly engineered. It's light, it's packable. And the material I mean you speak to you like using all of the materials of the creature that you're honoring, you know. And that bladder is the perfect material, it’s material sciences. I mean, it's lightweight, its transparent and almost almost camouflaged. And it is impermeable, and it is the same exact thing they used for their parka.And I got I was thinking about that I couldn't stop thinking about it, because it is so perfectly optimized over time. And that it speaks to the local complexity of that environment. And this is the problem with a lot of capitalism, too. It's like, we started this Indigenous Futures Institute here. And the whole goal is to seek that local complexity in every technology that we engineer. Everything that we create should be in context to that environment, just like our genomes, just like that parka just like that the waapa, the way that our ancestors over a long ass period of time finally figured out that if you put two hulls next to each other, you can go anywhere in the world to the most remote islands in the world. If you displace weight and water and make it hydrodynamic that way. And look at all of the models they use for like the America's Cup, for all these like carbon fiber. They're all catamarans and trimarans and so that's our intellectual property, and Larry Ellison better recognize that and pay my people. Because you, you know what I mean, you're talking about these are the fastest boats in the world. That's our stuff. So like, but I just look to all of the ingenuity and context of the environment. And I'm like, Man, I can't stop my mouth is just like *pantomimes open mouth*, amazing. It's amazing. So I just, you know, basically want to spend the rest of my life looking for more that it's everywhere. Yeah.Patty And then what capitalism does though is it takes that one particular model, and then it just wants to replicate it all over the world. It works here. And let's just do this everywhere. Let's just manufacture mass manufacturing, everywhere. And that's, I love what you're talking about with that Institute. Let's look at the local diversity, that and then look at, look at that local diversity and build that as opposed to just let's just, you know, now we're just gonna scatter it all over the world. And everybody's got to do it.KeoluYes. That's our EK, like, I was thinking about this new initiative in Vancouver, like, if you're listening all my Indigenous peeps in Vancouver, and you're doing that four block stretch, and you're the architect and engineering people on that job. And this is some serious land back stuff. So what they do with it is the most important thing, because you have to show the rest of the world that you're the leader in this s**t. Do not borrow ideas from other places in the world. Make sure that that speaks to your heritage, your accomplishments, your peoples engineering, and make the most be and it will be perfect. But if you try to borrow ideas, we're gonna put Hanging Gardens from India, these bridges and da da, that no, that's that's their thing in Kerala. That's right, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's a trap.Kerry I love this so much, because I think you're right. And I, I think what you're saying too, is, is it's so timely. And it's almost imperative that we hear that, because the earth as we are moving into this next phase environmentally, we have seen that, that idea of just kind of taking some, you know, status quo prototype sort of thing and dumping it here and dumping it here, there doesn't work well. And I to really, for us to look at this, and I think shifts some of the tides, we're gonna have to get creative, innovative, in so much of understanding each ecosystem, and this idea of the biodiversity of spaces, and working out uniquely, how are we going to be able to affect it to slow down what you know is going on right now, this is very, right, like this is a time where we really have to bring that front and center. And I think these are some of the conversations that I haven't heard really happening, least from the governmental but you know, whoever is in charge spaces, they're just talking about cutting emissions. But I think that idea of narrowing it down has to come front and center,KeoluAgreed Trudeau has to take the colonial wax out of his ears and pay attention to the geniuses in your community. Like pay attention. I think it's so interesting too, because in Hawaii, you know, we we grew up with this, not only was our genome shaped by this ingenuity, but we watched this like dialectically intertwined phenomenon. So we have this Ahupua`a system in Hawaii. So from the top of the the moku all the way down to the ocean, we have this this like sustainable gardening gravity system. And the way it works is like you have freshwater at the top that leads to you know your sweet potato, people in what you're gonna kill me. Sweet potato patch and then you know those from the sweet potato patch and all the phytonutrients from there go into this next garden and all the phytonutrients from there go into the lo’I which is the taro patch and then those then that bacteria goes into the fish pond where you've created this, you know, artificial fishery environment right on the water and you've stacked stones around so you get like the fish growing and eating in the mangroves and then it cannot go out the hole that it came in because it's too big so can't even get to the reef and it's this complete, then you take the leftover fish and you bring it to the top for fertilize you get I'm saying like it's a complete circular economic system. It's engineered for its invisibleOkay, that's why John Mayer arrives in f*****g excuse me. He arrives in Yosemite and he's like, Wow, this place is pristine and did it and these people are like, bro, we've been cultivating this Āina for 1000s of years, right? That's our our technology systems are invisible. They have been designed to be infinity loops. Right, we talk about the parka. I mean, I could break down any one of those technologies and show you why it's an invisible infinity loop. Let's contrast that with capitalism and optimizing every single system for exponential growth and profit. If it's going this way (upwards), that's not good. It needs to go this way (circular). And so if it's not working within the circular system, and then you have all these other people who's the lady who's talking about donut economics, it's like, okay, you stole our IP. Maybe they're going to give you a MacArthur Genius Grant, another one that should have went to an Indigenous person, you know, can you do, but I think that the that a lot of these large institutions are starting to get hip to it and realize that, that, that they the things that were invisible to them are starting to take shape. You know,Kerry What, what's in the dark always comes to light. And, and I find that interesting, though, is that, you know, just based on what we know, a western culture to do, is that a space that, you know, we want them to know, in that way? I think, for me, what what comes up is making sure we stay front and center and that we're ready to snatch back.KeoluYeah, right. Your IP, the IP thing. I mean, I think we really need to get in I'm we've started a whole kind of Indigenous ventures focus on intellectual property, because we have to position our communities, because that is a great way. And we've started a number of different companies that are really focused on that mechanism. It's like benefit sharing. How do we bring the money back to the people? So let's like for example, let's say you have a community that's adapted to high elevation in the Himalayas, okay, I'm just going to pick them. And we find a genetic mutation that allows us to expedite the development of a new drug to make the next I don't know Viagra. Okay,Pattyokay. High altitude Viagra. But,KeoluI mean, I'm saying this, and it sounds like science fiction, but this is happening. Now, there are multiple companies that are interested in this, okay? Right, okay. Because they know that who did all the legwork for you? Evolution, and if I can zero in on them on a molecule that allows me to understand how to make a new drug, I will do that. And I will patent that information. And I will put that drug on the market.Now, what this company Variant Bio is doing is they're saying, no, actually, we give X percentage of the royalties and intellectual property to the community in which it's derived, they have benefit, they have a benefit sharing clause, okay. And a large portion of that money goes back into select programs that are involved in cultural revitalization practices, education, health care, all the drugs that are created, in partnership with that community, they're either given to the community for free or at cost. So, none of these like Vertex Drug. Americans are the worst the drug hits the market, it's $300,000 a year and you have can only get access to it through your insurance company. So they're like disrupting the whole relationship.Now, here's the beauty of it. That's because these companies, if they make money on that, this is the they can buy back land, the exact same land that shaped their genome in the first place. And that's a circular economy there. So, we just have to think about re engineering all of these criminal industries, whether it's big pharma, any sort of energy or resource based company, you know, we're big into Indigenous data sovereignty, right? We've been talking about all of these opportunities, and just recognizing data as a resource, just like timber, just like oil, just like diamonds, any rare earth mineral, you know, and I know that the largest companies in the world are all based on generating, mining, modeling data, big data as a resource, and it's a form of economic value. It is the forum, surpassing oil in 2018, as the most important, valuable commodity on planet Earth. So why aren’t our people getting a cut of that?Kerry We you've touched something, I would love to hear more about that. Maybe sending out some research just at the center of understanding of intellectual property, I would love to hear more and how, you know, because that to me, now. Now we're talking about a real way, tangible, fundamental way to shift power. And I think that that one will speak it speaks so loudly and in a language that the capitalist system would understand. And I think if we that that's something powerful to spread the word on,KeoluI was going to say we're starting a kind of Indigenous intellectual property patent troll entity, because we have to play offense, it seems like often more often than not, were reacting to things or we're writing like these policy pieces, or, dare I say, ethics pieces where we're trying to get people to play book. And then then like a lot of our colleagues, they end up kind of window dressing and referencing our paper, but they don't actually do the things we're telling you to do. So, you know, I'm relatively young. So I'm observing this and seeing who's referencing our papers and see why and you know what, f**k this. We're about to make technologies. Now. We're about to make deterrent technologies, safeguarding technologies, and counter technologies, because we have to get in line and be in control.And, you know, a lot of the things we're doing with like native bio data consortium, we recognize what was Ford's secret sauce, when he created the Model T, vertical integration, they controlled everything from the rubber that they extracted in the Amazon, to the ball bearings to the engine, manufacturing, everything on the manufacturing line, they have complete vertical control of our communities need ready, and not limited to: satellites, so we can decrease the digital divide, write our own cloud based web services, so that we can process our own information and safeguard it, right? file repositories and store our genomes. We have to I mean, we need we need infrastructure. And we need people to stop investing in these bunk, just criminal and dare I say it, mediocre with the lack of innovation, infrastructures that already exist and invest in our people.Kerry I love this so much. I'm, I'm, wow, this This to me is a conversation that I would really like even just take, take this part of it, and when I really enjoy this, because seriously, I think you're that, to me, is a real, practical, revolutionary idea. And not just an idea, you guys are putting it into practice. And it speaks to me, because we often talk in the Black community about doing very much the same thing, building our own infrastructure. And and talking about claiming these pieces. And I think, you know, sharing that information is powerful, because this is the way we can exist in the system, and claim it back for ourselves and reshape it because it's literally a monster, it's like with eight heads. And these are the ways we can cut off some of the heads and maybe they don't grow back. You know, so I would love for us to maybe do this as another conversation like, Wow, very interesting.Patty But we talked so much about presence, right about, about presence, and being visible in things, but presence is not power. No, we can dominate a room, right? Like we can have, like the whole faculty, you know, be Indigenous people. But that doesn't mean that we have any power over the knowledge that we're creating, or the things that we're putting out there, because somebody is still controlling what papers get published, and somebody you know, and the funding for the projects. So you know, so we can have all the presence in the world, that doesn't mean that we have our overt the ability to control our own genetic material, you know, you know, that goes out there, or what happens with, you know, like we were talking about very early on, you know, the stories that get told about the stuff that you know about the things that are already out there, and the meaning that gets invested in that stuff, and then how that drives medical research. And they keep looking for answers in places that only wind up that only support the colonial system. So this is a really interesting and important application of the things that of you know, of the things that we started off talking about.KeoluYeah, I mean, we're just getting started with building a lot of these infrastructures and companies and training the next generation of people so that they can fill these roles and who knows what amazing ideas they're going to have. I mean, we were we're holding it down. I mean, in the health and genomic space. But I think there, just there are other people, I think that are really thinking about ideas in different directions. And I'm looking forward to learning from them. I mean, a lot and a lot of this applies to other things too, like repatriation of ancestors and museum settings and artifacts.Patty Well, we just talked with Paulette Steeve's about about that. Yeah.KeoluOh mahalo nui for the opportunity, you know, for so long we've not been able to to make decisions or have major leadership roles. I appreciate you guys having me on here and the conversation. And I'd love to come back sometime so …Kerry Oh, well consider it done, we are going arrange that to happen. Consider it done. This was phenomenal. I really appreciate it.Patty Thank you. So thank you so much. I really thought this was so interesting.KerryThank you bye.PattyBaamaapii This is a public episode. 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Today's Big IdeaWhat does it mean to have faith in your country?Do you have faith in the currently selected leaders of your country?Or only part of the country that you agree with politically?Or maybe you believe in the founding fathers' ideal of your country after the constitution was signed and the bill of rights added?Or maybe you believe in a past period of your country's history?I don't know. I've never thought about it until now.I believe in a country like America but one with sound money, personal property rights (which includes rights for all humans, not just one skin color), and that stays out of global conflicts.This means I don't believe in America today.So there's probably not a point in time in my country's history that I could have ever fully believed my country and the government supposed to uphold these hard-fought values.The US has been "at war" about 93% of the time since the Declaration of Independence.Some examples of the destructive American machine throughout history include:The Iraq war was about the Petrodollar. So was Afghanistan. Bin laden used to work with the CIA and his family was Saudi Arabian construction billionaires. Watch the Petrodollar film.Three countries that were wanted to sell their oil for something other than dollars, like the Euro, were attacked by the US government.Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, all had dictators overthrown by the US government, each of which was trying to get around the U.S. dollar to sell their oil. Fishy, huh?The Civil War was about half the country wanting to succeed had little to do with slavery, even though Lincoln gets credit as this great humanitarian.Vietnam was just a political sham.Hawaii took over: On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.On and on the list goes.In fact, for 97% of the time since the signing of the declaration of independence in 1774, the United States has been at war.Since then, the public narrative feeds the masses through mainstream media, and the industrial education complex (which includes higher education too) has been convincing Americans that we are righteous and just.America, The Global BullyThe reality is, America has been a bully for years. Since World War 2, we've been raping and pillaging the world under the banner of "democracy" and "freedom" when it's been about money, power, and control.What makes this possible are men—yes, mostly men, though there are some real warmongering gems of people like Madam Albright in this psychopathic response—that tell themselves stories to justify their actions, such as: "it's for the greater good," and we need to "free the people" by basically destroying them first, so on and so forth.Power corrupts, and absolute power absolutely corrupts, as Lord Byron said.This has nothing to do with power and everything to do with human nature and power.Human beings are not designed to have power this way. Let's take a very quick break to explore and anthropologist observed anecdotes from a hunter-gatherer tribe. Forgive me as I forgot the source, but it went something like this.Excerpt about shaming the meat.By understanding a ritual like this, we can get a glimpse into nature's way of evolving human groups and human biology, which were designed to thrive in this group setting since we have removed violence and social rituals like this that would have otherwise created a decentralization of power by keeping everyone on the same level (known as "fierce egalitarianism", you would never have a human amass so much power.Human BullyingAnother interesting
Prior to opening the main discussion the host contextualises the current delta variant lockdown that is resulting in an online semester delivery that Dr. Andrea Low is helping out with. There are a couple of examples given of early 20th century commercial representations of the Pacific and issues of skilled performances and musical innovation entangled within race, power, and colonialism. Discussion with Dr. Low begins at 14:16 Curator and ethnomusicologist Andrea Low joins this episode to discuss the invention of the kīkā kila (Hawaiian steel guitar) by La‘ie, Oahu local Joseph Kekuku, as well as her grandfather the ukulele maestro Ernest Ka‘ai, and more. We explore Hawaiian musical inventions, contributions, and global transmission, such as traveling troupes. Early 20th century commercial musical production drew from many sources across various racial and cultural lines, whose marginalised interactions led to crosscurrents of exchange and inspiration. From Mexican/Paniolo/Latin vaqueros (cowboys) arrival in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, bringing Spanish guitars, to the musicians that emerged after the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani's monarchy, who travelled around the world performing their unique musical styles. The kīkā kila and slack key guitar sounds from Hawai‘i found their way across the region and the world, influencing various Pacific/Moana/Wansolwara musics, delta blues, country western, and more. We end on the ideas of cosmopolitanism during this period and some local adaptations, such as Bill Savesi and the legacy of the orange ballroom in Auckland.
Hawaii - Myths - Legends - Kings - Queens - History - All The Stuff Tolkien Loved! Hi, I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit podcast. This week we are going in a totally different direction – literally and figuratively- doing something we've never done before. Inspired by Tolkien's love of mythology and genealogy, his fondness for names and the combination of all these put together, we are going to spend a week talking about one of the most enchanting and remote places on earth- the islands of Hawaii. Christy, from a historical perspective, Hawaii's history is fascinating, and in some ways a micro-expression of a lot of what has happened all over the world. It is a place of immense beauty, incredible tragedy- a place where people have been exploited and brutalized, but also a place that starts and ends every conversation with a greeting of love- aloha. I went there for the first time years ago and lived for a short while. As a teacher, I was on summer break and I spent every day in the sun with my beautiful three year old daughter, Emily. We played on the sand of the beaches and watched the surfers- mostly just soaking in the sights, sounds and smells of a place that felt so far away from the MidWest of my birth or Memphis. I had hardly ever even flown on an airplane up to that point in my life. It was the only time in my life where I had a tan I could be proud of. I'm one of those people that burns and not tans. I was mesmerized by much of it. I was always enchanted with it as well- without ever having been. I remember when my grandparents went there on their 50th anniversary. My grandmother, who married my grandfather at the age of 15, who never went to high school, who worked for the telephone company all of her life, came back gushing from Hawaii talking about how beautiful and magical it was. She also talked about meeting Tom Selleck, but that's another point. Today, though, we're going to explore just a little bit about the stories that make up this amazing place. We also want to put Hawaii into the larger context of the Polynesian islands. It's a part of the United States as a state, but that is only its most recent history. The history of Hawaii is rich and old; its language and culture deep, charming and connected to a much larger story. If you go to Hawaii, one of the must do's is to participate in a Luau. It might feel like a touristy thing, but it's more than that really- it's a story. The Luau started in 1819 when King Kamehameha II ended the taboo system that forbade men and women from eating together. It's a feast. There is always music, food, hula dancing and stories. They might be a family story celebrating a rite of passage, but it can also be the story of the island. Today, we are going to look at the stories of Hawaii: a few ancient myths- a true story turned myth, but we're going to end with an inspirational true story of a great and inspirational woman- Queen Lili'uo-kalani . Her legacy lives and is most definitely not a myth as we understand that word, but enduring fact. Sounds like we have a lot to get through…. I know- it may be too much, but let's see how it goes. First, let's start with the big picture- what is Polynesia? We know Hawaii is a Polynesian island but what is that. Well, it's certainly not one place- so dispel that myth- pardon the pun- the word poly means many and there are over 1000 islands scattered over 800,000 square miles. What is interesting is that even though there are many different indigenous people that live quite separately on these different islands, there are actually many things they have in common- including their DNA- they share a common origin. When James Cook first landed in Hawaii, one of the things that shocked him was that the language of the Hawaiians shared cognates with languages used in other islands thousands of miles away. He thought he was a discoverer, an explorer, and he was in the sense that he was discovering and exploring what he didn't know- but he was not uncovering something formerly unknown or unconnected. There were connections of language, of culture, of religion that were far-reaching. The Polynesian islands of Hawaii makes up a triangle and Hawaii is the top of the Triangle. - Easter Island off the coast of Chile makes up one end of the triangle, and new Zealand is the third point in the triangle- so – if you can imagine just a gigantic triangle across the Pacific ocean, that's Polynesia. If we look at a globe instead of a map, we can see just how much space this triangle covers. In fact, it's actually incredible to think that well before the Vikings and the Europeans were making ships to cross the Atlantic ocean, Polynesians had already developed the technology to travel over thousands of miles of water- and were doing it for thousands of years using the stars and even the oceans currents- that's a very interesting story in and of itself, but for another podcast. Well, Disney cashed in on the story of Polynesia, although I'm embarrassed to say I haven't watched the movie, although I know it's popular. I just kind of quit watching cartoons when my girls grew out of them. I probably should have watched it before this podcast, but I didn't, so I did the second best thing and googled about it. What I wanted to know was how well-received the movie version was to people who love the real story of Polynesia. And unsurprisingly, I g got mixed reviews. On the plus side, Disney picked a good name for the heroine of their story. The word “moana” means Ocean. For Hawaiian people- not just Hawaiian people, but we'll center our focus on Hawaii, the ocean is not something that divides the world, but something that connects it- which I think is a nice idea. So, Moana is a nice choice of a name for your protagonist. One inaccuracy that annoys people is with the demi-god called Maui. Now, Disney's Maui is an orphan- and even though there are 20 something slightly different versions of the Maui story across Polynesia, an orphan is in none of them. . Hawaiian tradition has four Maui brothers. The Maui stories are very important and are one of those links between the islands that lets modern people see how connected these people were culturally- as technologically impossible as that seems. But another point of annoyance with the movie is that Hina is missing. Who's that? A Goddess- Maui is just a demi-god. But Hina is different things in different islands, but in all of them she is a god connected to Maui. She is The wife or sister or even mother of Maui, depending on the version of the legend. But in all cases, she's a powerful female deity, why would we want to delete that? HA! I'm sure you wouldn't have had you been the Disney executive in charge. Did you really read that a lot of people are upset she's not in the movie, or is that just your opinion? No, that's a real thing… but let's get to the legend of Maui. There are lots of myths we could tell, some probably more important than the ones we're going to tell, but Maui is the most recognizable name of Polynesian legends- in part because of the movie, but also because of the island named Maui. First of all, the Hawaiian word Mo'olelo can be translated as legend, story or history- which an important point to start with as we talk about myths, legends and histories in general. And it's interesting to point out the distinctions that are NOT being made by using the same word for history as you use for myth- these things intermingle in Hawaiian culture- they would definitely agree with Tolkien that myths are true. And histories may be legends. Well, I want to point out that and I'll point it out very specifically later in the podcast, but history and myth intermingle in all cultures and with all peoples- we just don't highlight that the way the Hawaiian language does. I also think it's interesting how there are protocols about how important stories, histories, legends should be told. There were specific highly skilled people trained to remember the tales- for the sole purpose to make sure the stories were kept intact and authentic. The Hawaiian people, called Kanaka Maoli, have an incredibly strong oral tradition. Their language was an oral one for most of its history. In fact, the Hawaiian language did not even have a written alphabet until 1826 when Christian missionaries created one and then went on to develop the written form of the language. Doing that is Something that has gotten mixed reviews from historians and cultural critics as time has passed- Print culture as well as missionary influence. Next week we will introduce Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart, I want to get into a little more about the controversy of Christian missionaries and local cultures because in Africa that is a large part of the narrative, but in Hawaii, the Christian influence has been, although checkered at times, more well received by indigenous people, and definitely not the most controversial part of the story we are going to tell today. However, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's go back in time to Maui. Okay..one version of his story goes like this, one day Maui realized that people were being held down by the sky. They couldn't stand up. The sky had flattened leaves and was keeping plants and trees from growing. People were suffering. He realizes he needs to help. So, he visits a Kahuna, a Hawaiian priest or healer. The Kahuna tattoos Maui with a magical symbol on his forearm giving him great powers. He also went to a Kapuna, an elder, and she gave him a drink for her gourd. This made him supernaturally strong and he was able to push the sky above the mountains where it is today. At another time, Maui's mother, Hina complains that her kapa cloth doesn'thave time to dry because the days are too short, so Maui climbs to the top of the Haleakala volcano and waits at the top for the sun to rise. He uses a. magical lasso made from his sisters hair andsnares the the sun's rays. The sun agrees to slow its pace across the sky increasing the growing season. And here's another one- probably the most widely known, one day Maui pulls p the Hawaiian islands by tricking his brothers into paddling their canoes with all of their might to haul up each island. He then went on to hook them using a great and magical fishhook called Manaiakalani. The brothers thought they were pulling up massive fish, but really they pulled up all the Hawaiian islands. These stories are really fun. Lots of them are short. But if you just want to look for some literary stylistic things that are distinctive- you will see that lots of them glorify the hero of the tale, who in Polynesian cultures corresponds to the chief, of course, as these groups are all non-democratic groups led by chiefs. The myths use a lot of hyperbole and metaphor to enhance his attractiveness and his deeds. There is a rich use of personal names- names are very important in these cultures. Natural things like rocks, valleys, even the sun have been modified by the hero and nature is anthropomorphized- in another words, is its own character- like the sun. Nature is beautiful and spectacular but engages the characters as its own character. Well, there are some things that cross over with the Greek myths we're more familiar with, but some that are definitely unique. For sure. Before we leave Maui and the ancient myths, I think we should share the one where he discovers fire. Okay, again Maui is out fishing one day with his brothers and he sees a very small plum of white smoke. He goes over to see what it is and discovers an hen stamping out and trying to hide the fire. Maui hides and watches the hen start another fire. The next day, the hen goes out to make her fire but sees that Maui isn't in the canoe with his brothers, so she doesn't make the fire. Maui realizes the hen is on to him, so the next day, he puts a large human-shaped thing in the canoe and tricks the hen into thinking he's gone. The hen makes the fire rubbing limbs together. Maui jumps out, grabs the hen by the neck and demands to be taught how to make fire. At first the hen lies to him telling him to rub water plants together, but eventually she shows him how to rub the dry sticks together. Maui, as punishment for lying to him, burns the crest on the top of the bird head- and that is why the adult alae-‘ula or Hawaiian hen has a red crest. There you go. Well, let's transition from ancient myths to more modern ones. And this is where the Hawaiians are on to something by using the same word for myth and history and the point I was making earlier. The next story I want to share is not a myth, but something that actually happened, but over the years, because of how we record history, the events have been exaggerated not too differently than the Maui stories, really. So, On January 19, 1778, the Hawaiians welcomed a British explorer, Captain James Cook. He is considered the first European to ever visit the islands, although that's not undisputed. I mentioned him before. He's a very famous person in British history during this time period. . He sailed all over the world up and down the coasts of Canada, three expeditions into the Pacific islands, to Antarctica, ,He was very successful in terms of what he was setting out to do and the things he was learning about the world made a huge impact in his home country. He was disciplined with his crew, kept them alive by keeping an eye on their behaviors and their diets, and just this made him very successful. But one reason history remembers him so well, is the same reason we remember Florence, Italy so well. We talked about this during the Machiavelli episodes. Cook kept copious records, not just about what happened but what he was learning. He recorded scientific discoveries, cultural discoveries, language discoveries. Lots of things that were new to Europeans, and as I've said before- history belongs to the one who records it. So, since we have so much written by him, he gets to frame a lot of the record. What we know about that encounter was written down eventually by both native Hawaiians as well as in the record log of Captain Cook himself. However, even though there is some direct record, over the years, the narrative of the events that took place has evolved based on people's interpretations afterwards, and many would argue were mythologized likely inaccurately for a variety of different reasons. So, in some form or fashion, the long and short of it, Captain Cook showed up and as circumstance would have it, it was during a holiday event where local islanders were celebrating the Polynesian god, Lono. Lono is one of the four gods in Hawaiian mythology- ironically the god of peace and agriculture. Let me point out the that's different than Maui who was a demi-god-. In the mythologized version- which was accepted as fact for many years, the locals believed that Captain Cook WAS the god Lono and treated him like a god because he arrived during this celebration in a sacred bay dedicated to Lono. Apparently, the ship was well received and they had a wonderful time with the natives- some of these activities introducing diseases to the island- again another story for another podcast. But they stayed a month before leaving to hunt for the Northwest Passage. The part that historians have come to question over the years is if the locals really think he was a god, or is that just something that has grown out of the story because of cultural misunderstandings of what was going on and what was being said? We know the Hawaiians were impressed with some of his iron because Cook mentioned in his log they recognized it. He made note of it because they had seen it before which struck him. Is there enough evidence to support the whole god- thing? There is some, but it's not clear cut, and that's not the end of the story. Captain Cook and his crew leave Kealakekua Bay, but unfortunately they get into a storm and have to come back because their ship, the Resolution is messed up. This time when they come back into the bay, there's a brawl of some sorts for reasons that are not entirely clear. Captain Cook actually was killed in the altercation as well as 30 plus Hawaiians. Now, the part of the original versions that has been questioned over the years as to why Captain Cook was killed. The original story states that the Hawaiians realize he's not a god and kill him for that because in the Lono myth, he's not supposed to come back. But honestly, more recent scholarship that reads the first hand accounts of both Cook and the Hawaiians who later recorded the story, tell a story that is less dramatic and more humanized- maybe even accidental. Of course, what actually happened, we can never know for sure. But Captain Cook's name is heavily associated with the history of Hawaii especially as it begins to interact with the Western Colonizing world. In fact, when we end the podcast, reading an introduction to a translation of an Hawaiian ancient text, Captain Cook's name and this story is mentioned. So, why did the story become fact that the native Hawaiians thought Cook was god. It's interesting, at least for us who are interested in how history is recorded. We believe it because that is how a Hawaiian named Kamakau wrote this history in 1866. Well, that sounds definitely and clear cut. But it isn't. Culture is never clear cut. The events happened in 1778- that's 88 years previously and Kamakau wasn't a witness. He was recording in written form what had been passed down orally, and what have we just learned from reading the Maui legends, Hawaiians often use hyperbole when describing the chief- in their oral tradition. They also use a lot of metaphors. That's cultural. If a Hawaiian used the word Lono to describe Cook later, it's possible it was a comparison like what they were thinking when he showed up- not a literal interpretation. Also, as the leaders of the Hawaiians spoke to Cook, isn't it likely they used flattery in order get what they wanted. They may have called him Lono, the person who told the story heard it as such, but it wasn't because the Chiefs thought that is who they were actually talking to. We know for a fact that Cook gave them a knife during their first meeting. So, there are many possible explanations as to the encounter. It's just one of the many problems historians have- and so that's why I say, making the word myth and history the same, in some sense, is likely a smart thing to do. That way, everyone knows, that some things are potentially questionable or at least open to multiple interpretations. Well, I want to end with a story that is very very documented about a real person- and this person history inarguably is a great American hero- although, she was never American-at least not by choice. Queen Lili‘uokalani, As a little girl they called her Lydia. She was born on September 2, 1838, attended missionary schools and was highly highly educated- notice also that is only 60 years after Cook shows up in Hawaii for the first time. That is not long. No, it isn't. HOW she became the Queen of Hawaii is interesting in itself- genealogy and names are such an important part of Hawaiian culture, but that is a story for another day. Long story short, she became queen after her brother died and she was the heir apparent. This again will show you how inglorious history is. Hawaii, after being discovered by Western people, quickly became a popular spot in the Pacific. It was geographically in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The weather was perfect. Growing conditions were perfect. So, obviously financial interests, specifically American financial interests saw an opportunity to grow sugar cane, among other things. Long story short, and this happened not too long before Queen Queen Lili‘uokalani began her reign, Her brother King David Kalakaua signed what today we “the Bayonet Constitution” which basically limited the power of the monarchy and disenfranchised the native population. Why would he do that? He did it because the businessmen on the island literally forced him to at gun point. That's why it's called the Bayonet Constitution. This constitution linked voting rights to land ownership which cut out local people who did't own land, and allowed non-native immigrants to vote just because they did. When Queen Liluokalani became queen, her first order of business was to amend the bogus constitution, restore her own power and re-enfranchise the native Hawaiians. Local businessmen, afraid of the influence of the queen and how it would affect business, basically conspired with the American media/technology industries of their day to use their influence to run a dis-information campaign about what was happening in Hawaii. They villainized her, got the House of Representatives in the United States to get involved, and were able to bring in the US Marines to force Queen Lili‘uokalani to surrender the Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States in 1893. Ironically, the person who was proclaimed the president of the Republic of Hawaii was a man by the name of Sanford B. Dole- yes, as in Dole Pineapples- he was the son of the most influential businessman on the island. It's a terrible story. Queen Liluokalani was imprisoned for 8 months at the Iolani Palace which you can visit to this day. Those were dark days for her and she really had no assurances she would be released. She was and actually went to Washington DC to advocate for her people and for herself. She met with President Cleveland, held a reception for reporters and members of congress and their families. She also attended the inauguration of President McKinley and then made a formal appeal to the US Government. Let's read it: I declare such treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawaii, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown, and finally an act of gross injustice to me. Because, the official protests made by me on the 17th day of January, 1893, to the so-called provisional government was signed by me and received by said government with the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of America for arbitration. Because, that protest and my communications to the United States government immediately thereafter expressly declare that I yielded my authority to the forces of the United States, in order to avoid bloodshed and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power. Because, the President of the United States, the Secretary of State and an envoy commissioned by them reported in official documents that my government was unlawfully coerced by the forces, diplomatic and naval, of the United States, and that I was at the date of their investigations the constitutional ruler of my people. Therefore, I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, do hereby call upon the President of that nation to whom alone I yielded my property and my authority, to withdraw said treaty (ceding said lands) from further consideration. I ask the honorable Senate of the United States to decline to ratify said treaty, and I implore the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity as may be in accord with the principles of their fathers. And to the Almighty Ruler of the universe, to Him Who judgeth righteously, I commit my cause. Done at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this seventeenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. (Signed) LILIUOKALANI. Well, it just wasn't ever going to happen. All of world history, not just American history, world history is the story of these kinds of conflicts. In 1898, William McKinley signed into law a joint resolution of Congress to annex Hawaii to the United States, although, the legality of doing something like this is obviously disputed to this day. This was just a few weeks before Queen Liliuokalani turned 60 years old. She would never be queen again. On Queen Liliuokalani's 73rd birthday, she gave a birthday present to her people. She had her trustees set aside a piece of property to create the Liliuokalani Garden, then when she died, in her will she created an estate to provide for orphan children of Hawaiian blood. It's since been amended to include other races of children as well. But her legacy lives through the ongoing Liliuokalani trust which is still active today supporting orphans. Her story is so intermingled with the story of Hawaii which is shocking looking back, but it's also encouraging on a personal level. She didn't win her battle, but she never stopped advocating for her people- the ones she loved. In spite of all that was so discouraging, losing her country- she still made her life count in a significant way and has improved the lives of many years after her death. She also left an important literary legacy- and that's the last thing I want to talk about. While she was locked up imprisoned she used her time to do two things: first she made a quilt- an important Hawaiian tradition- but in her case, besides just a piece of art, she was making an important political document. She wanted to document the overthrow of her government. You can see the quilt today in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. And of course, in 1894, when the Hawaiian flag came down and the American flag went up, many many people began making quilts out of the Hawaiian flag, as a form of protest. Often they would hide them under their bed, but they had them. They wanted to remember the monarchy. The second thing that Queen Liliuokalani did while locked away was to translate a sacred Hawaiian text- called the Kumulipo. It's a creation chant. She transcribed over 16 eras that incorporate the emergence of sea creatures, insects, land plants, animals and eventually humans. We'll end the episode today by reading the preface to the chant…allowing Queen Liliuokalani to speak directly to use. The chant itself reads like a genealogy and would be difficult to read, but you can look at it online. Her translation is also an important historical document. Let's read her introduction, remember, she is writing this while imprisoned. THERE are several reasons for the publication of this work, the translation of which pleasantly employed me while imprisoned by the present rulers of Hawaii. It will be to my friends a souvenir of that part of my own life, and possibly it may also be of value to genealogists and scientific men of a few societies to which a copy will be forwarded. The folk-lore or traditions of an aboriginal people have of late years been considered of inestimable value; language itself changes, and there are terms and allusions herein to the natural history of Hawaii, which might be forgotten in future years without some such history as this to preserve them to posterity. Further, it is the special property of the latest ruling family of the Hawaiian Islands, being nothing less than the genealogy in remote times of the late King Kalakaua,--who had it printed in the original Hawaiian language,--and myself. This is the very chant which was sung by Puou, the High Priest of our ancient worship, to Captain Cook whom they had surnamed Lono, one of the four chief gods, dwelling high in the heavens, but at times appearing on the earth. This was the cause of the deification of Captain Cook under that name, and of the offerings to him made at the temple or Heiau at Hikiau, Kealakekua, where this song was rendered. Captain Cook's appearance was regarded by our people then as a confirmation of their own traditions. For it was prophesied by priests at the time of the death of Ka-I-i-mamao that he, Lono, would return anew from the sea in a Spanish man-of-war or Auwaalalua. To the great navigator they accordingly gave a welcome with the name of Lono. She goes on to list the geneology of the monarchy and makes historical connections that consist of a lot of names, we might get lost in if I read them, but I want to pick back up her words at the end where she says this… It will be seen, therefore, that as connecting the earlier kings of ancient history with the monarchs latest upon the throne this chant is a contribution to the history of the Hawaiian Islands, and as it is the only record of its kind in existence it seemed to me worthy of preservation in convenient form. I have endeavored to give the definition of each name as far as it came within my knowledge of words, but in some cases this could not be done because the true signification has been lost. The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers, and the terms used appertained to the heavens, the stars, terrestrial science, and the gods. Curious students will notice in this chant analogies between its accounts of the creation and that given by modern science or Sacred Scripture. As with other religions, our ancient people recognized an all-powerful evil spirit: Mea was the King of Milu as Satan is of the infernal regions, or hell. I hope that to some interested in all that pertains to Hawaii, this may give one-half the pleasure which it gave to me in the translation and preparation of the manuscript. And that is our hope with this podcast as well. We hope we've introduced you to just a small part of the long and complex story of a wonderful people – the Hawaiian people- a people that greet and send off everyone they meet with aloha- a way of life where you share your essence of love and friendship at every coming and going. Oh, and if you recognize the song that we're playing on at the beginning and at the end, it was written by Queen Liliuakalani herself, and even Elvis Presley has recorded it. This week instead of saying peace out- we say aloha!
Starting in earnest in the early 1880s the US embarked on a prototypical regime change operation: propaganda demonizing the targeted regime, financial control of the targeted state, suborning of key government officials, deactivation and destruction of the sovereign military force from within, a coup, followed by an invasion disavowing any US ambition or interest, and … Continue reading "Civilizations 37b – Yankee Imperialism pt2 – Regime Change 1893: The US overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii"
Sipping on a new twist on an island cocktail, we go back to Victorian era Hawaii. Bekah recounts the life and times of Queen Liliuokalani while Shelley describes the last days of Jane Stanford. Drinking: The Royal Hawaiian 1.5 oz. Empress 1908 Gin 1 oz. pineapple juice .5 oz. fresh lemon juice .5 oz. orgeat syrup Pineapple slice Shake all ingredients except gin with ice. Strain into collins glass with crushed ice. Layer gin on top. Garnish with pineapple slice.
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What's up to my tremulous tangelos and incendiary isopods! Welcome back to another fire edition of the BNP y'all! Thank you for tuning in! This episode is Part Two of my chat with Elijah Kalá McShane, an inspiring and insightful Kanaka Maoli calling in all the way from Oahu. In the second part of our chat we finish discussing Hawaiian history from a decolonized perspective. Elijah also shares some practical advice for connecting with one's ancestors, and blesses us with a beautiful Hawaiian prayer to end the episode. Big Mahalo Nui Loa to Elijah once again for jumping on the pod and sharing his insights with us. You don't want to miss this episode y'all. Enjoy! For more info on Hawaiian Kingdom: https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/Connect with Elijah: IG: https://instagram.com/sonofoahu?igshid=bsl30yn2w681FB: https://m.facebook.com/awakenedaloha/Awakened Aloha: https://instagram.com/awakenedaloha?igshid=7wm8hwvh9ao7YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCZRhl8n7G2G6TQgD7xQkR6wFollow the BNP on IG @conantannerSupport the podcast for as little as $1/month at: www.patreon.com/noetics. Help keep me on the air and incur all the positive karma when you do.Thank you for spreading the word and telling a friend about the BNP! Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe wherever you listen to pods.Until next week,Be good to yourselvesand to each other. One Love,Conan TRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE Mndsgn & Sofie - Abejo Dykotomi - Corvid Crunk Dylan Witherow - Before Sunrise (Mix) Kealamauloa Alcon - We ChantingHawaii's Last Queen (documentary excerpt)Arumi - Still Summer (Mix)Lofi Girl - 1 AM Study Session Lo Fi (Mix)Hawaiian Souljah - Hawaiian Pride Queen Lili'uokalani - Aloha'Oe (composed while she was under house arrest in Iolani Palace)Casiio & Sleepermane - Underneath Ka'ikena Scanlan - I Am Not AmericanSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/noetics)
What's up to my marvelous monk seals and halcyon hoary bats! (Hawai‘i has no native land mammals save for the diminutive Hawaiian Hoary Bat, an endangered, reclusive and rarely seen creature.)Welcome back to the BNP y'all, and man do I have a stellar episode on offer this week. I'm incredibly excited to introduce to the BNP fam Elijah Kalā McShane, a Kānaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) speaker, poet, educator, and student of Hawaiian history and consciousness. Elijah was kind enough to jump on the pod, calling in all the way from Oahu, to share with us his insights into the real deal Hawaiian history from the Hawaiian perspective, as well as to discuss the significance and cultural context of the ongoing struggle for Hawaiian Sovereignty. Elijah also describes the crucial importance of decolonizing the spiritual and connecting with one's ancestors. This episode is Part One of my conversation with Elijah. Part Two will drop next week. Please check out Elijah's YouTube channel here: Elijah McShane TV: Lā Kuʻokoʻa - Official VideoFind out more about Elijah's Awakened Aloha Healing Arts work here: https://www.yelp.com/biz/awakened-aloha-healing-arts-kapoleiThank you for spreading the word and telling a friend about the BNP! Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow the BNP on IG @conantanner. Support the BNP financially for as little as $1/month at www.patreon.com/noetics. You receive a dream interpretation coupon as well as bonus content when you sign up.Until next week everyone, Be good to yourselves and to each other. One Love, Conan TRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE J Dilla - Life (Instrumental)Dykotomi - Corvid CrunkJ Dilla - Soul Vibe (Instrumental Mix)Sons of Yeshua - We Are Mauna Kea Side Streets Lo Fi MixEpic Ka Mate Haka + Audiomachine's ManticoreIsrael KaleohanoHugo ChavezSons of Yeshua - We Are Mauna Kea Part 2 Na Hana Nui A Maui - Mark Keali'i Ho'omaluLofi Girl - Saturday ChillinChicano Batman - The Taker StorySupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/noetics)
Driving History Day....Queen Liliuokalani's Carriages and the development of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Kathleen Haak & Gary Grisham, from the Hawaii Driving Club tell us about the royal carriages of Hawaii. Barry Dickinson shares the history of the Dutch Harness Horses as he actually drove the Hackney horse stallion, Cambridge Cole, the father of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Its Martin's Auctions 50th Anniversary and Karen and Paul Martin will let us know how to attend in person or online. Donna Kay Rule shares her experience using Pro-Stride & acupuncture to keep her champion barrel horse, High Valor in top condition. Listen in....HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 2612 – Show Notes and Links:Show Host: Glenn the Geek (see host bios) and Dr. Wendy YingVisit our Facebook page for all the pics and posts.Title Sponsor: Pro-StridePic: Queen Liliuokalani's CarriageTraditional Chinese Medicine: Professional Barrel-Racer Donna Kay RuleProduct of the Month: Equine Du HuoCarriages 101: Kathleen from the Carriage Association of America and Garry Grisham from Hawaii.Guest: Lauren Reece of the American Driving SocietyGuest: Karen and Paul Martin of Martin's AuctionGuest: Barry Dickinson Tremont Training Tip: NAThere’s an App for that! Download our FREE new Horse Radio Network App for iPhone and AndroidFollow Horse Radio Network on TwitterSupport for this podcast provided by: American Driving Society, Dr. Wendy YingSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)
Driving History Day....Queen Liliuokalani's Carriages and the development of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Kathleen Haak & Gary Grisham, from the Hawaii Driving Club tell us about the royal carriages of Hawaii. Barry Dickinson shares the history of the Dutch Harness Horses as he actually drove the Hackney horse stallion, Cambridge Cole, the father of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Its Martin's Auctions 50th Anniversary and Karen and Paul Martin will let us know how to attend in person or online. Donna Kay Rule shares her experience using Pro-Stride & acupuncture to keep her champion barrel horse, High Valor in top condition. Listen in....
Driving History Day....Queen Liliuokalani's Carriages and the development of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Kathleen Haak & Gary Grisham, from the Hawaii Driving Club tell us about the royal carriages of Hawaii. Barry Dickinson shares the history of the Dutch Harness Horses as he actually drove the Hackney horse stallion, Cambridge Cole, the father of the modern Dutch Harness Horse. Its Martin's Auctions 50th Anniversary and Karen and Paul Martin will let us know how to attend in person or online. Donna Kay Rule shares her experience using Pro-Stride & acupuncture to keep her champion barrel horse, High Valor in top condition. Listen in....HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 2612 – Show Notes and Links:Show Host: Glenn the Geek (see host bios) and Dr. Wendy YingVisit our Facebook page for all the pics and posts.Title Sponsor: Pro-StridePic: Queen Liliuokalani's CarriageTraditional Chinese Medicine: Professional Barrel-Racer Donna Kay RuleProduct of the Month: Equine Du HuoCarriages 101: Kathleen from the Carriage Association of America and Garry Grisham from Hawaii.Guest: Lauren Reece of the American Driving SocietyGuest: Karen and Paul Martin of Martin's AuctionGuest: Barry Dickinson Tremont Training Tip: NAThere’s an App for that! Download our FREE new Horse Radio Network App for iPhone and AndroidFollow Horse Radio Network on TwitterSupport for this podcast provided by: American Driving Society, Dr. Wendy YingSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)
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In today's episode, we discuss Queen Liliuokalani who was the first and last Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Full of rich history, we discuss the revered legacy of Queen Liliuokalani, and remorse on the destruction of the Hawaiian culture and Kingdom by the United States. There's laughter, crying, but overall lots of ranting!If you want a birthday shoutout in our next episode, email us at TheNameDayProject@gmail.com
We discuss the last Monarchs of Hawaii. Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kaʻiulani. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/histerical0/support
Advocate for her people, heart too kind for this world, fiercely intelligent, and a musical genius! These are just a few of the things I would say to describe Queen Liliʻuokalani. But don't just sit here reading the description, take a listen!! I promise you'll like it! Instagram : fortheloveof_history Further Research Hawaiian creation story http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0beckwit2-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&d=D0&toc=0 (http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0beckwit2-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&d=D0&toc=0) Smithsonian article on Queen Liliʻuokalani's Music https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-music-hawaiis-last-ruler-guided-islands-people-through-crisis-180971783/ (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-music-hawaiis-last-ruler-guided-islands-people-through-crisis-180971783/) A short biography of Queen Liliʻuokalani https://www.biography.com/royalty/liliuokalani (https://www.biography.com/royalty/liliuokalani) Royal Line Explanation https://www.crownofhawaii.com/royal-school (https://www.crownofhawaii.com/royal-school) A brief history of Queen Liliʻuokalani's Rule https://onipaa.org/pages/her-history (https://onipaa.org/pages/her-history) Music Queen's Jubilee, written by Queen Liliuokalani, performed by Malia Ka'ai Barrett and Halau Mele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJb2VVjHMVc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJb2VVjHMVc) Wiliwili Wai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVV6WGqCYA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVV6WGqCYA) Manu Kapalulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz80QPie6Pg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz80QPie6Pg) Queen Lili'uokalani - Aloha'Oe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bIxMYPlas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bIxMYPlas) Foundation recourses https://www.iolanipalace.org/history/queens-imprisonment/ (https://www.iolanipalace.org/history/queens-imprisonment/) https://onipaa.org/pages/the-trust (https://onipaa.org/pages/the-trust)
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Episode 9: “Ohio v. Annexation” (Hawaii). Mele kalikimaka and happy holidays! Alex journeys to the Aloha State to discover the story of the overthrow of the Hawaii Kingdom in the 1890s by a group of mostly American businessmen. We sit down with Australian author and historian, Stephen Dando-Collins, to discuss his book Taking Hawaii: How 13 Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With A Bluff. Purchase this awesome book here: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Hawaii-Thirteen-Businessmen-Overthrew/dp/B00RYB6WWS Alex follows the life of one of those 13 businessmen from the “Committee of Safety” that led the coup of the Hawaiian kingdom, Cincinnati, Ohio’s own, John Emmuluth. Our story tracks the history from the arrival of American missionaries in 1820 to the eventual annexation of Hawaii in 1898 and its later addition to become the 50th state in 1959. Stephen Dando-Collins leads us through the “bluff” pulled off by Emmuluth and his co-conspirators to dethrone Queen Liliuokalani on January 17, 1893 in a mostly bloodless coup. “Ohio v. Annexation” analyzes the rise of American business interests and the political machinations of these sugar barons and business elites into taking over Hawaii for their own political and financial gain. This was only possible with the help of the American ambassador and military stationed just offshore. Thanks to Stephen for his help in explaining this convoluted and tragic story during the US’ imperial past. Buy Stephen’s excellent book Taking Hawaii here: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Hawaii-Thirteen-Businessmen-Overthrew/dp/B00RYB6WWS Also, his new book is available and I’m throughly enjoying it, Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome. Link here: https://www.amazon.com/Caligula-Emperor-Rome-Stephen-Dando-Collins/dp/1684422868 Special thanks to Matt Crumpton for his assistance on the original music used for this episode and don’t forget to email the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com with show ideas comments, etc. Also rate and review the show and we will read it on air. Happy New Year…see you all in the Twenties.
Native Hawaiians have been fighting against outside influences for sovereignty of their land, preservation of their culture, and respect for their identity since sugar planters and businessmen forced the abdication of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893.In many ways, the continued resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii is more than a protest against a massive and destructive construction project. It is an extension of that 126 years-long fight for the right to the self-determination of Native Hawaiians, and it is also part of the longer fight for self-determination for indigenous and Native peoples around the world
Native Hawaiians have been fighting against outside influences for sovereignty of their land, preservation of their culture, and respect for their identity since sugar planters and businessmen forced the abdication of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893. In many ways, the continued resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii is more than a protest against a massive and destructive construction project. It is an extension of that 126 years-long fight for the right to the self-determination of Native Hawaiians, and it is also part of the longer fight for self-determination for indigenous and Native peoples around the world. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate.
The same day Queen Liliuokalani proposed a new constitution for Hawaii that would restore power to the monarchy and grant native Hawaiians the right to vote in elections, a group of white businessmen met at a law office in Honolulu, and hatched a plan that would change the course of nations.
We will discuss the events leading up to February 10, 1843, when Lord Paulet of the British Royal Navy sailed into Honolulu Harbor and captured the town, the occupation and negotiations that followed, the eventual arrival of Admiral Richard D. Thomas from England with a proclamation from Queen Victoria disapproving Lord's Paulet's actions, the meaning of King Kamehameha III’s proclamation, "Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono", the precedent these events set for Queen Liliuokalani’s decision to yield to the United States in 1893, and modern efforts to reconcile for the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The host for this episode is Mark Shklov. The guest for this episode is Troy J.H. Andrade Ph.D.
Hosts John Fenn and Stephen Winick, along with Library of Congress staff members Stephanie Hall, Michelle Stefano, and Muhannad Salhi, explore the work of "hidden folklorists," that is, people whose folklore work is sometimes overlooked because they came from marginalized communities and/or were more famous for other activities. This episode looks at four folklorists or folklore families. The famous 19th century detective Allan Pinkerton and his wife Joan compiled an early book of Scottish ballads, and were featured in a blog post by Stephen Winick. King David Kalakaua and his sister Queen Liliuokalani, last monarchs of Hawai'i, published and translated the sacred chants of their people, and were featured in blogs by Stephanie Hall. Sarah P. Jamali, an English professor and wife of an Iraqi prime minister, collected audio recordings of Iraqi folktales and published them in English translation, and was written about by Michelle Stefano; and Ralph Ellison, prominent novelist, whose Invisible Man was partly inspired by a story he collected in New York, as revealed by Stephen Winick.
Aloha nō kākou, I am Cameron and I am Leilani and we are Graduate Research assistants at Native Hawaiian Student Services also known NHSS. This is an initiative of the Lahui Hawaii Research Center, also known as LHRC, which is only made possible through NHSS. LHRC focuses on promoting and engaging in Oiwi scholarship from Hawaii and around the world. This has inspired us to create paakea podcast as a platform to engage and share Oiwi scholarship. One of our main goals for LHRC is to give voice to Oiwi scholars to establish that higher education is a part of Kanaka Oiwi intellectual genealogies. We decided to name our podcast paakea, after the original name for Dole Street which divides the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa campus, creating a landmark for students, faculty, and peoples residing in Hawaii. Sanford B. Dole was one of the main conspirators of the illegal overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and it is in this light that we decided to name our podcast after the Hawaiian name of this street in order to establish that UHM and Hawaii are still residing within the Hawaiian Kingdom. Today, we have Dr. Rosie Alegado an assistant researcher at the Center for Microbial Oceanography. Come join us in listening to Dr. Alegado explore the past limitations and exciting new potentials of research and community engagement.
Larry is back in studio this week as we tackle the straight up goofy tale of Queen Liliuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaii.
Larry is back in studio as we tackled the straight up goofy tale of Queen Liliuokalani, The Last Queen of Hawaii.
Something a little different this episode. I look at the life of Queen Liliuokalani and try to extract wisdom from her acts of courage, love and the willingness to never give up on her people. I was inspired when I discovered the story of this heroic woman and hope others might be also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jnu0zhZrU
Hawaii The history of Hawaii describes the era of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. That history begins sometime between 124 and 800 CE, with some theories dating the earliest Polynesian settlements to the 10th or even 13th century. Around 1200, Tahitian explorers found and began settling the area.[inconsistent] This began the rise of the Hawaiian civilization. It remained isolated from the rest of the world for another 500 years. Europeans led by British explorer James Cook arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. Within five years, European military technology helped Kamehameha I conquer and unify the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii. The kingdom was prosperous and important for its agriculture and strategic location in the Pacific. American immigration began almost immediately after European contact, led by Protestant missionaries. American farmers began cultivating sugar. Their methods of plantation farming required substantial labor. Waves of permanent immigrants came from Japan, China and the Philippines to work in the fields. The native population succumbed to disease brought by the Europeans (particularly smallpox), declining from 300,000 in the 1770s over 60,000 in the 1850s to 24,000 in 1920.[1] Americans within the kingdom government rewrote the constitution, severely curtailing the power of King "David" Kalākaua, and disenfranchising the rights of most Native Hawaiians and Asian citizens to vote, through excessively high property and income requirements. This gave a sizeable advantage to plantation owners. Queen Liliuokalani attempted to restore royal powers in 1893, but was placed under house arrest by businessmen with help from the US military. Against the Queen's wishes, the Republic of Hawaii was formed for a short time, led by men of European ancestry. These men included Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston, who had been born in Hawaii but had strong financial, political, and family ties to the United States. This government agreed on behalf of Hawaii to join the US in 1898 as the Territory of Hawaii. In 1959, the islands became the state of Hawaii of the United States. Information Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hawaii Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions History Footage downloaded and edited by Jason Roeseke at PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJb YouTube
Apparently Jessica doesn't write descriptions for her episodes anymore. This is Queen Liliuokalani, she did stuff, we talk about it. Also featuring boobs, Lindsay Lohan movies, and white men being the wo-orst, surprise surprise. Email us at nastywomenpodcast@gmail.com if you read descriptions.
Today in 1838, Queen Lili‘uokalani -- the last royal leader of the Hawaiian Kingdom -- was born. Queen Lili‘u was part of a highly musical family, and she and three siblings became known as the “Royal Fours.” On today's "A Classical Day in the Life" we explore the musical legacy of the queen.
Celina Mahinalani Garza is a true spirit warrior. After having her on our podcast recently, there is simply no doubt about that fact. Celina is of the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) people, Hispanic and Portuguese . She is a Mind/Body Wellness Practitioner and Advocate who incorporates tradition, spirituality, holistic modalities and interactive, education-based activities into presentations; all serving as motivational tools to success. Celina is a Certified Facilitator for Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs (CDSMP), Diabetes Self-Management Programs; and a School Health Index Trainer with the Association of American Indian Physicians. Celina specializes in Motivational Inspiration, Empowerment, Stress Management, Healing/Wellness,Communication, Staff Development Programs: Teambuilding, Job Readiness Programs, Cultural Exchanges and Hawaiian Entertainment. Born September 2, exactly 150 years to the date of Hawaii's last queen's birth; Queen Liliuokalani. Celina has been given and overcame several challenges and obstacles due to a great calling on her life….To educate and perpetuate. CEL: Celebrate.Every.Life with Unconditional Love. She brings a joyous level of intensity to her purpose filled life. Whether that be in how she raises her children or serves in her community. Whether it be in her approach to holistic health or passing along the culture of her ancestors. Celina Mahinalani Garza is here to leave a lasting impact on every single person she encounters on her path. And believe us when Eddie and I say, it wasn't always a path of ease. Celina was hit hard by a near life shattering experience. An experience that threatened to take away one of her most prized possessions…her voice. But you will find out in this episode how the struggle she faced is now allowing her the opportunity to speak even louder than ever before! Tune in as Celina Mahinalani Garza shares her heartfelt and spiritual journey. As well as blessing our show with an unexpected musical gift. Don't miss this one folks! If you wish to reach out to Celina, feel free and contact over on Facebook on her page at Celina Mahinalani Garza Gratitude is the Attitude that Gives Our Dreams Altitude!!! Jason “J-Boom” Legaard The post Celina Mahinalani Garza: Song of Strength appeared first on .
In 1893, the monarch of Hawai'i, Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) was overthrown by a group of American sugar plantation owners led by Sanford Ballard Dole (1844-1926). Ever since, generations of Native Hawai'ians have viewed the Americans as occupiers in their homeland having never ceded sovereignty. The issue has become even more complex as Hawai'i has become a military base for America and its economy is entirely dependent on American goods. In the meantime, Native Hawai'ians are reduced to tourist stereotypes. In the early 2000's Anne Keala Kelly started documenting the militirisation of Hawai'i which then, led to an exploration of the reality of life in Hawai'i for Native Hawai'ians. The result, a documentary Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai'i (2008). On a recent visit to Aotearoa, Kelly sat down with Maraea Rakuraku and discussed the film.
In 1893, the monarch of Hawai'i, Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) was overthrown by a group of American sugar plantation owners led by Sanford Ballard Dole (1844-1926). Ever since, generations of Native Hawai'ians have viewed the Americans as occupiers in their homeland having never ceded sovereignty. The issue has become even more complex as Hawai'i has become a military base for America and its economy is entirely dependent on American goods. In the meantime, Native Hawai'ians are reduced to tourist stereotypes. In the early 2000's Anne Keala Kelly started documenting the militirisation of Hawai'i which then, led to an exploration of the reality of life in Hawai'i for Native Hawai'ians. The result, a documentary Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai'i (2008). On a recent visit to Aotearoa, Kelly sat down with Maraea Rakuraku and discussed the film.
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