Hawai‘i A Sense of Place

‘Ōpūkahonua the Story of Papa and Wākea

Mele

Mele

Oli Hula

MeleOli Hula History

Mo‘o‘ōlelo

Mo‘olelo

History

Past ---- Present ---- Future

wā mua -- wā ‘ānō -- wā hope

Mo‘okū‘auhau Cosmogonic Genealogies

David Malo

Abraham Fornander

Mo‘okū‘auhau Cosmogonic Genealogies

Kumulipo ‘Ōpūkahonua

Kumulipo

2,108 line chant

Kalaninui‘Īamamao (Hawai‘i island)

16 wā - 8 in pō; 8 in ao

‘ŌpūkahonuaCosmogonic genealogy - how to live

Best way to learn this is for me to tell it as a mo‘olelo. Therefore, sit back, relax (but don’t fall asleep), and I’ll try to be as dynamic and exciting a speaker as possible.

WākeaPapahānaumoku =

Lesson 1: Nī‘aupi‘o ** to create akua on earth

Hawai‘i

Ho‘ohōkūkalaniMāui

WākeaPapahānaumoku =

Lesson 2: ‘Aikapu

Religio-political system to regulate Hawaiian life

System of segregation of the female and male tasks in order for society to exist constantly in a state of pono

Ho‘ohōkūkalaniWākea=

HāloanakalaukapaliliHāloa

Lesson 3: Mālama ‘Āina

Lesson 3: Mālama ‘Āina

Creation of a familial relationship to the land

Kua‘ana a me ke kaikaina

Papahānaumoku=Lua

O‘ahu-a-Lua

Hawai‘i

Ho‘ohōkūkalaniMāui

WākeaPapahānaumoku ==Lua

O‘ahu

= Ho‘ohōkūkalani

Hāloanakalaukapalili

Hāloa

Kaua‘i Ni‘ihau Ka‘ula Lehua

Kaho‘olawe as afterbirth

Cook to the Missionaries

Lono/Kū

1778, February 1779

Approx 200,000 - one million Hawaiians alive

ABCFM (1820)

1848-Great Māhele -- pop. 88,000

SUGAR

First Sugar Plantation (1835)

Popularity and ease of growth led to importation of international labor

International LaborChinese: 39,000 between 1852-1897

Pac Isle: 2,450 between 1877-1887

Portuguese: 10,000 btw 1878-1887

Portuguese: 13,000 btw 1906-1913

Japanese: starts in 1884; by 1924 200,000+ arrivals in Hawai‘i

Philippines: 100,000 btw 1907-1930

Big Five and Reciprocity TreatyBig Five - Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors (Amfac), and Theo H. Davies & Co.

1875 - Free access to the US market for sugar, et al for Pu‘u Loa (Pearl Harbor)

By 1878, fewer than 50,000 Hawaiians

Akaka Bill

Native Hawaiian Government Reorg Act of 2009

Started in 2000 (Sen. Daniel Akaka)

Federal recognition for NH under the status of the Kingdom of Hawai’i

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Kau Inoa

Kana’iolowalu

Native Hawaiian Roll Commission

Kamana’opono Crabbe