The Kanaka Maoli

Work Cited

Minton, N.(producer). (1992). Ahupua‘a, Fishponds, and Lo‘i[documentary]. Honolulu, HI: Na Maka o Ka „Āina.

Silva, N. K. (2004). Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books

Peoples, J., & Bailey, G. (2011). Culture and Nature: Interacting with the Environment. Humanity: an introduction to cultural anthropology. (9th ed., pp. 112-141 373-374). Stamford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Incorporated

Fish Kashay, J. (2008). From "KAPUS" to Christianity: The Disestablishment of the Hawaiian Religion and Chiefly Appropriation of Calvinist Christianity. Western Historical Quarterly , 39 (1), 17-39.

Conclusion

The Kanaka Maoli people lived peacefully for hundreds of years until globalization took over their territory.

Due to globalization the Kanaka Maoli had to suffer with changes of religion, language, and the lost of their homeland.

It is up to us and all future generations to protect ingenuous groups and their cultures, not exploit them.

The H1 Highway

The building of the Interstate H1 highway in Hawaii started in 1959 when Hawaii officially became a U.S. state.

The Natives did not want this highway due to it passing threw sacred and spiritual land, but the United States government built it anyway. (Minton, N.(producer). (1992)).

The H1 Highway

Going threw changes

Hotels were starting to become big business in Hawaii.

With the influx of people now coming to the Hawaiian islands by the end of the 19th century native Hawaiians became the minority on their own homeland. (People and Bailey, 2009, p.374)

Industrialization

The Kanaka Maoli

Many American entrepreneurs saw an opportunity once the United States took Control over the Hawaiian Islands.

From 1900-1960 Industrialization over the islands was taking place at a very fast past. Turning some of the Kanaka Maoli's sacred grounds into tourist attractions.

The business men didn't even use local workers, they imported cheaper labor from Asia. (People and Bailey, 2009, p.373)

American Takeover

On January 16, 1893 American troops landed on the Hawaii Island O'ahu from the ship the U.S.S Boston.

The United States never left the Islands.

On the 21st of August, 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America.

The First contact with others.

It wasn't until 1778 when the Kanaka Maoli people came into contact with visitors for the first time. The visitors were Captain James Cook and his men who traveled to the islands on the Resolution and the Discovery.

Captain Cook and his men brought diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea to the island.

When Cook visited the islands again he tried to take the chief hostage and was killed on February 14, 1779.( Peoples, J., & Bailey, G. (2011)).

The Kanaka Maoli Way

Before Globalization the Kanaka Maoli had polytheism beliefs, meaning they worshiped many gods. This was until 1820 when missionaries came to Hawaii and started converting the Kanaka Maoli people into Christianity. The American missionaries condemned most of what the Kanaka Maoli people practiced. Things like the traditional Hawaiian dance, the Hula, and healing practices were no longer allowed and American ideologies were imposed instead.(Fish Kashay, J. 2008).

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Who are the Kanaka Maoli?

The Kanaka Maoli are native Hawaiians and are a very unique indigenous group.

One hypothesis is that they arrived in Hawaii in the 3rd century from Marquesas

They would speak the Hawaiian language until 1896 when a new law required them to only teach and speak English in both public and private schools.(Silva. N. K, 2004 pg154)