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