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Aloha Betrayed - Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Paperback)
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Aloha Betrayed - Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Paperback)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States
to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition
drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population
signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the
U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians
until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of
researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai'i
have been based exclusively on English-language sources. They have
not taken into account the thousands of pages of newspapers, books,
and letters written in the mother tongue of native Hawaiians. By
rigorously analyzing many of these documents, Silva fills a crucial
gap in the historical record. In so doing, she refutes the
long-held idea that native Hawaiians passively accepted the erosion
of their culture and loss of their nation, showing that they
actively resisted political, economic, linguistic, and cultural
domination. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily
newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth,
Silva 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.
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