New Books in the Library 2016: Week of May 2

Ho'oulu marks the end of a process for Dr. Manu Meyer, a Harvard educated, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo professor of Education. With the publication of this book, Manu leaves Western construct behind and embraces Native Hawaiian and indigenous education and life models. Ho'oulu gathers her writings and ruminations on transforming information to knowledge, facts to metaphor, and sensation to contemplation.

The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Nāea Chun traces the origins from both Hawaiian language and Euro-American sources to tell an intriguing story of the influence of Kamehameha's feathered gods, their connection with ancient Tahiti and the Cook Islands and their function as war and sorcery gods. It brings to light certain cultural insights that have been missed by previous scholars, as such as ears and movable mouths; that some of the gods have and the traditional names of several of the gods than one universal one, and the connections with the ancestral homeland.

As a member and an ethnographer, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan analyzes how the group's mostly middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, woodcarving, and cultural ceremonies. Some of their practices are heavily influenced by or borrowed from other indigenous Polynesian traditions, including those of the Māori. The men of the Hale Mua enact their refashioned identities as they participate in temple rites, protest marches, public lectures, and cultural fairs.

Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, the author demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. A powerful critique of colonial historiography, Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism.

An account of those difficult years at the end of the nineteenth century, when native Hawaiian historian David Malo's 1837 prophecy concerning 'the small ones' being 'gobbled up' came true for the Hawaiian islands. When this book was first published in 1898, it was an international plea for justice. Just as Admiral Thomas had restored Hawaiian sovereignty in 1843 following an illegal action by Lord Paulet, Queen Liliuokalani prayed that the American nation would similarly re-establish the Hawaiian throne. Queen Liliuokalani died on November 11, 1917, her poignant plea for justice unanswered. Seventy years later, her people still wait.

The contributors to The Value of Hawaiʻi outline the origins of our current state, and offer points of departure for a Hawaiʻi-wide debate on our future. The brief essays address a wide range of topics--Education, the Environment, Hawaiian Issues, Tourism, the Arts, Political Culture, Law, Labor, the Military, Transportation, Homelessness, and many more--but the contributors share a belief that taking stock of where we are right now, what we need to remember, and what we need to preserve and to change, is the challenge that all of us must face now.
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The fresh voices gathered in this book share their inspiring work and ideas for creating value, addressing a wide range of topics- including community health, agriculture, public education, local business, energy, gender, rural lifestyles, sacred community, activism, storytelling, mo'olelo, migration, voyaging, visual art, music, and the 'aina we continue to love and malama. E-BOOK VERSION

Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic conclusions will have broad implications for further research in Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history.

The definitive resource for understanding critical legal issues affecting Native Hawaiians. This extensively revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking 1991 Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of specific topics within this complex area of law including: Native Hawaiians and U.S. Law, Native Hawaiians and International Law, The Public Land Trust, Water Rights, Traditional and Customary Access and Gathering Rights, Burial Rights, The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, The Island of Kahoʻolawe, Indigenous Cultural Property, Native Hawaiian Health, Hawaiian Language and Education, And much more.

A veteran of Bishop Street's boardroom, Wesley T. Park knows the importance of local values in doing business in the Islands. In this companion volume to his best-selling Lessons Learned on the Corner in Kalihi, Park offers a treasury of simple lessonspowerful, effective management tools that are just as useful in our everyday lives.

In 1975, Hawaiian scholars Rubellite Kawena Johnson and John Kaipo Mahelona published Nā Inoa Hōkū,a Catalogue of Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names. Nā Inoa Hōkū is still widely regarded as a definitive source of reference for anyone studying the use of astronomy in Polynesian voyaging as well as the nature and development of ritual and calendrical practices throughout the Pacific. This new edition of Nā Inoa Hōkū is completely overhauled, vastly expanded, and includes new translations of many key original Hawaiian sources from the mid-19th century onwards.

In this compelling, reflective, and sometimes humorous memoir, the son of a dark-skinned, tough-as-nails Hawaiian father and a frantic, no-nonsense Hawaiian mother is born with red hair. The Red-headed Hawaiian is about the hard work and sacrifices that have to be made in order to achieve one's dreams.

Breadfruit, called 'ulu in Hawaiian, was one of the plants Polynesians brought in their sailing canoes when they discovered the Hawaiian Islands. It is a staple food throughout the Pacific, and in ancient Hawai'i it was a crop of much greater nutritional, cultural, and political significance than its present-day status here suggests.

This document includes a look at fishpond production and activities associated with farming fish in fishponds today and much more. (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture) PDF DIGITAL VERSION