1st Edition

Rethinking the Native Hawaiian Past

By Kanalu G. Terry Young Copyright 1998
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This innovative study challenges scholars to rethink standard approaches to the study of Hawai'ian history by proposing a Native-centered historiography based on concepts derived from the Hawai'ian language and oral traditions. Historical approaches to traditional Hawai'i have tended to focus on the Ali'i Nui (high chiefs) as leaders of a stratified society, and on the decisions they made in the... Read more
Chapter 1 “Ka Mana‘o o ka W? Mamua”; Chapter 2 “He Leo No Ke Ko‘ihonua”; Chapter 3 Hana Lawelawe i ka Wa ‘Aikapu; Chapter 4 Hana Lawelawe i Ka W? ‘Ainoa; Chapter 5 “He Lei Ho‘okahi no Moana”;

Biography

Terry Young, Kanalu G.