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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Hawaiians"”.
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"We Were Queens": Historical Loss Among Native Hawaiians: Exploring Historical Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention
… <em>māhū</em> and/or queer (LGBTQM) Native Hawaiians, face health and mental health disparities that are disproportionate when compared with other racial/ethnic minorities in Hawai`i, and when compared to the United States as a whole. Native Hawaiians have the highest mortality rates for …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
Hawai‘i was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws …
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The Making of the Ahupuaa of Laie into a Gathering Place and Plantation: The Creation of an Alternative Space to Capitalism
… from Utah, and it was a metaphor appropriated by Hawaiians and infused with their own cultural meanings, particularly the importance of the land. In order to economically support the gathering place, the missionaries turned to a plantation model. The plantation they developed was unusual in …
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Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: The Effects of Post-1893 Land Law Changes On Native Hawaiians - Population Demographics Supplement or Supplant?
… American immigration while dispossessing Native Hawaiians concurrently. The Land Act was an integral part of a systemic racist process designed to supplant Kanaka Maoli in their homeland and disconnect them from ʻāina, a legacy that lives on today. This dissertation, “Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: …
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Native Hawaiian Well-Being at Hawaiʻi Community College, An Initiative for Academic Success
… the community which continues to affect Native Hawaiians’ sense of well-being. There is further discussion on the lasting effect of institutional barriers to success for Native Hawaiians who continue to languish behind their peers in educational attainment in public schools to this day. A …
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Articulated Indigeneity and Tourism in Hawaiʻi
… Hawaiʻi. I seek to question the narrative that Hawaiians consent to, and prosper from, the largely unregulated mass tourism complex that has become a focal point of the post-colonial state. Native Hawaiians have actively resisted the erosion of their culture, lands, and nation through strategies …
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The Contemporary Perspective of Wellness through the Voices of the Kūpuna
… Hawaiian wellness. For over two hundred years, Hawaiians have been influenced by a changing landscape mostly imposed upon Hawaiians and Hawaiian lands as a consequence of being conquered by powerful Western cultures. This grounded theory study utilized video elicitation and focus group …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… who would then be equal to whites. Native Hawaiians and Creeks attending these boarding schools sought the knowledge of whites to preserve their sovereignty and to adapt to the many upheavals that accompanied the colonization of their lands. When some native Hawaiians and Creeks put …
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The Relationship of Cultural Affiliation and Cultural Congruency to Depression, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being among Native Hawaiian College Students
Native Hawaiians are the indigenous people of Hawai'i or those living descendants from the original inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands. Despite the preponderance of evidence of health disparities within this community there is a scarcity of research on the mental health and psychological …
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He Lāhui Ano Maikaʻi Keia: Japanese Immigration and the Intersections of Ethnicity and Sovereignty in Kalakaua's Hawaiʻi
… mind to build a coalition of nationalist Hawaiians in order to restore native traditions and seek out allies abroad in the hopes of resisting America's military and economic might. Using the labor supply as a wedge, Kalakaua was able to achieve substantial gains in the political sphere by …
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Representing the Mixed Plate: Involving Descendant Communities and Kānaka Maoli in Hawai’i Plantation Museums
… effect on <em>Kānaka Maoli</em> (Native Hawaiians), displacing them from their lands, replacing them with immigrant laborers, and putting into motion the chain of events that led to Hawai’i’s annexation in 1898. The current-day population in Hawai’i continues to reflect these significant …
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The Power of the Hula: A Performance Text for Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth
… cultural extinction. As a result, many First Hawaiians do not clearly understand the richness of their own history. Without this understanding, it is difficult for them to have an idea of who they are today. Moreover, the past is also critical for appropriating a better future. Therefore, the …
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Native Hawaiian Values and Identity: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Kānaka ʻŌiwi Educators and Educator Leaders
… in shaping the identity of Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) educators and educator leaders with an aim of advancing the existing scholarship about Native Hawaiian values and identity. A qualitative study using interpretive phenomenological analysis was conducted with 15 Kānaka ʻŌiwi educators and …
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Haole Like Me: Identity Construction and Politics in Hawaii
… <em>hapa</em> (mixed race) people, and ethnic Hawaiians—followed by the analyzing of these interviews, and ending with my personal engagement with these findings autoethnographically. Writing this thesis has changed how I see my own identity in Hawaii. I have used this autoethnographic method …
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He Lāhui Hawaiʻi Ma O Ka Hoʻomomona Hou I Ka ʻĀina: Nā Moʻolelo Lōkahi Ma Ka Mokupuni ʻO Oʻahu (A Hawaiian Nation Through The Restoration Of ʻĀina Momona: Stories Of Unity– Among Ourselves, That Which Feeds, Community, And Spirit–On The Island Of Oʻahu)
… cared for us, including the Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) whose kūpuna (ancestors) have regenerated with their kulāiwi (ancestral homelands) for 100 generations. While I do not trace my biological lineage to Kānaka ʻŌiwi, I learned through my moʻolelo moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy story) that my roots …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… history between white settlers and Native Hawaiians, where rather than feigning innocence, white settlers instead consider histories of colonialism as sites on which to build responsible relationalities that may be productive for efforts of decolonization. This project demonstrates how …
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EXAMINING STRUCTURAL RACISM AS A CAUSE OF HEALTH INEQUITIES AMONG PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: AN EXPLORATORY COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY
<p>Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in the United States are known to experience profound and persistent disparities across most indicators of socioeconomic status and health when compared to the majority population. Similarly, the Indigenous Māori and Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New …
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Reimagining the Polynesian Pipeline Phenomenon: An Intersectionality of Race & Athletics in the College-Going Decisions of Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander High School Student-Athletes
<p>Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) high school student-athletes are highly sought after by collegiate athletic programs across the country, creating the Polynesian Pipeline phenomenon (Johnston, 1976; Tengan and Markham, 2009; Uperesa, 2014; Vainuku and Cohn, 2015). However, the …