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Leaving Paradise - Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 (Paperback)
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Leaving Paradise - Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 (Paperback)
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Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787.
Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or
as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century
more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the
Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have
gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through
painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California,
and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is
known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to
1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United
States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical
entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and
invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as
indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur
trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and
most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with
indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout
the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of
their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers
in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the
early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and
easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of
fields-Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and
Western Canadian history, diaspora studies-will find Leaving
Paradise an indispensable work.
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