Hawaiʻi - EA Hawaiian Activism Movements 1960-2010: ʻĀina

Published in the Hawaiian Journal of History, this article goes into detail the circumstances that lead up to the Kalama valley evictions from Bishop Estate. Trask covers the individuals who rose in this crisis and became one of the most significant Hawaiian movements of the post-statehood. Available online via eVols.

This dissertation in history of consciousness explores local protest and literary production in late-twentieth century Hawai'i. It argues that in local literature, as in Local activism in the early '70s with the Kalama Valley struggle, what began as a multiethnic collaborative effort, Local movement, was instrumental in sowing the seeds for the late-twentieth century resurgence in indigenous Hawaiian politics and poetry. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

The Kalama Valley protests triggered broader and more militant concerns about land, race, ownership, and ultimately autonomy and sovereignty for Kanaka Maoli. Published in the Hawaiian Journal of History, this article presents a profile of the Kalama controversy and its context, then develops a perspective that links home, homeland, and citizenship. Finally uses this perspective to analyze the Kalama Valley controversy and its impact on Hawaiian nationalism. Available online via eVols.

In an era of climate change crisis precipitated by global extraction of resources and defended by a military-industrial complex, Kanaka Maoli, or the First Peoples of Hawai’i, have struggled over the decades to resist the militarization of our homeland. The struggle for return of land is intrinsically tied to the resistance to military and the capitalistic exploitation via the development, occupation, and sale of our homelands. By exploring the key struggles of the Kalama Valley and Wai’ahole/Waikane resistance, the reawakening of culture reveals how indigenous systems of sustainability, based on traditional technology and science, provide a pathway forward during these troublesome times. Available online via EBSCOhost & Duke University Press for UHM patrons.

Edwina Moanikeala Akaka was among the 32 persons arrested on May 11, 1971 in Kalama Valley, protesting the mass eviction of farmers and Native Hawaiians. She also talks about her active role in the protests at Hilo airport. Available online via ScholarSpace.

4 videodiscs. This film documents the Kalama Valley anti-eviction struggle (1970-1971), a militant struggle that pitted working people against the Bishop Estate, the largest private landowner in Hawaiʻi, and its allies in the Hawaiʻi state government. Though the struggle was eventually won by the powers-that-be, the Kalama Valley struggle became the opening shot of the anti-eviction, working class and Hawaiian sovereignty struggles that erupted subsequently throughout the Hawaiian archipelago.

A KV2020 Production oral history with Kalani Ohelo, a member of Kokua Hawaii and long-time activist, about the anti-eviction struggle in Kalama Valley (1970-1971). The act of resistance by the residents and activists or “outside agitators” in Kalama Valley would forever change the political consciousness of Pae‘āina Hawai‘i, the Hawaiian Islands. This was the first time that an organized land struggle was popularized and gained wide support from the community-at-large. The unity of young activists with the residents and their conscious resistance set the tone of the many anti-eviction, working-class and Hawaiian sovereignty struggles that erupted over the entire Hawaiian landscape.

In A Nation Rising, p.125-136. Puhipau, also known as Abraham Ahmed, made regular delieries of ice to Sand Island residents and lived there himself from 1970 to 1980. Politicized by the stateʻs arrest and subsequent destruction of 135 homes, Puhipau joined forces with Joan Lander to become of the the most prolific and widely known documentary film teams in Hawaiʻi - Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, the eyes of the land. Available online via Ebook central for UHM patrons.

This special presentation consists of two documentaries on Hawaiian land evictions, past and present. Anahola follows the story of Michael Grace and Sondra Field Grace, facing eviction in Anahola Beach Park, Kauai, and frames it in context of Hawaiian history and the taking of land from Native Hawaiians. The documentary concludes with their arrest and the demolition of the structures in the park. A list of evictions from 1970 to 1987, primarily on Oahu, follows, introduced by Haunani-Kay Trask. The second presentation is The Sand Island story, which interviews local residents of the island and shows the eviction and destruction of their homes. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

A look at four months of attempts by Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian residents of an abandoned strip of state-owned shoreline in Honolulu to resist eviction and create a Hawaiian fishing community. The residents viewed the area, known as Sand Island, as the last opportunity for preserving a way of life which their ancestors knew. Available online via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVtqxw5MYfo.

Examines the status of Hawaiian culture in present day Hawaii from a historical perspective. Reviews the history of Hawaii from the time of Kamehameha I to the present. Also presents the problems of Hawaiians, such as the eviction of squatters on Sand Island, crime, and education. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

Dissertation covers three different sites currently undergoing restoration in the He‘eia ahupua‘a, I examine the ways in which Kānaka Maoli are, 1) rehabilitating and restoring once degraded ʻāina and resources; 2) using and implementing ʻike kupuna, and integrating Western and Indigenous science in the restorative process; and 3) utilizing mālama ʻāina strategies that are framed by an ahupuaʻa systems approach. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

In A Nation Rising, p.86-97. Describes the efforts of Kauaʻi locals to protect their communities from displacement by tourist development in Niumalu. Then with the subsequent evolution of the Kauaʻi grassroots movement and it efforts to realize a vision for the island resulting in a reputation for rebellion, activism and what some would consider antidevelopment sentiment. Available online via Ebook Central.

George Cooper was a student at the University of Hawaii when he first met members of the island activist group Kokua Hawaii in the 1970s and become involved in opposing developments at Niumalu-Nawiliwili on Kauai. Avaliable online via ScholarSpace.

Documents the eviction on June 3, 1985 by police of a group of houseless native Hawaiians whom took a stand for their right to live at Waimānalo Beach Park, an area set aside as Hawaiian Home Lands. Trailer can be viewed;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVlZtphn03w>.

Shows how grassroots support is mobilized by Waiahole and Waikane Valley tenant farmers who face the threat of eviction from their leased lands which will be used for a housing development. Available online via YouTube;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcCp-hHRMu0&t=5s>

This article analyzes the history of landholding in Hawai i and concludes that a different approach is necessary; the use of the ceded lands trust for the benefit of native Hawaiians should not be subject to Fourteenth Amendment equal protection scrutiny. Available online via HeinOnline, Nexis Uni, and JSTOR for UHM patrons.

Review of 1993, after discussion of the lease of land to the Save the Nation Foundation in Waimanalo, the attempted eviction of Marie Belcham. The review discussion includes Hawaii's poor economy, local politics and Hawaiian sovereignty with the 100th year anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

Hayden Aluli discusses Hawaiian sovereignty and in particular the case of one of his clients Dennis "Bumpy" Kanahele, being held in jail without bail on three federal charges.

This analysis of non-violent action in native Hawaiian protest uses the occupations of Makapuʻu as an example. Available online via JSTOR for UHM patrons.

This article condemns the imprisonment of Bumpy Kanahele after the Makapuʻu occupation and looking at how those events came into play comparing to a novel by Kiana Davenport, Shark Dialogues. Available online via EBSCOhost and UH Law Library for UHM patrons and Taylor & Francis Online for public.

This dissertation offers an examination of the concept of sustainability, via an ethnography of geothermal life in the district of Puna on Hawaiʻi Island. Close examination of what sustainable measures have meant for life in the district of Puna on Hawaiʻi Island, however, reveal the ties of discourses on and enactments of ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable’ living to the sustenance of market, colonial inheritance and renewability, and the manufacture of narratives that erase forms of existence—human and nonhuman, including and especially the geological. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

Documents include news release and the document "An economic analysis of the Kilauea Geothermal Development and Inter-Island Cable Project. Available online via ScholarSpace.

Native Hawaiians express the concerns about keeping geothermal development out of the volcano areas by relating the importance of the land and forests for the present and the future.

This is a study of the environmental regulation and the analyzation of the policies of the Federal, State, and local governments from the initial exploration and development of geothermal energy on the island of Hawaiʻi in the 1970s to the publication.

This dissertation is a study of Native Hawaiians on Hawai'i Island who are engaged in this Movement, and in particular of three organizations: The Pele Defense Fund, Ka 'Ohana, O KaLae, and Free Association. The original intent of this research centered around three questions which focused on the construction of cultural identity in the Movement, the way in which the past is used and represented, and the relationship between activists and anthropologists. While activism and cultural identity have been the dominant themes throughout this research, the issue of identity as a construction has been overshadowed by a concern with how Hawaiians in this Movement experience their activism in the daily struggle for survival. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

In A Nation Rising, p.180-198. This chapter discusses the nature of this proposed development of geothermal energy in the Wao Kele O Puna volcanic rainforest that threatened to destroy this forest, obstruct access to natural resources by kānaka Hawaiʻi cultural practitioners, and desecrate the goddess Pelehonuamea. Covers the nature of the struggle and some of the actions undertaken by the Pele practitioners from 1983 through 1994, and highlights major accomplishments. Available online via Ebook central for UHM patrons.

Focuses on the efforts of the group called the Pele Defense Fund to prevent the efforts to tap a live volcano in Hawaii and harness its steam. Success of the group's full-page advertisements on The New York Times; Advertisement's stress on the importance of native religious rites; Fund's calls for a boycott of Hawaii's products. Available online via EBSCOhost for UHM patrons.

This folder holds part 5 of the Joint Hearings before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs and the House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. This oversight hearing on the administration of Native Hawaiian home lands was held on August 11, 1989, in Hilo, Hawai'i. OHA trustee Moanikeala Akaka gives testimony for the events that happened on September 6, 1978 when native Hawaiian protesters marched onto the Hilo Airpot runway in protest of the airport being on Department of Hawaiian Homes Land. Available online via eVols.

Article reporting on an arrest of nine Hawaiʻi newsman along with 51 native Hawaiians who where occupying the Hilo Airport runway in protest of the airport being on Department of Hawaiian Homes Land.

Edwina Moanikeala Akaka was among the 32 persons arrested on May 11, 1971 in Kalama Valley, protesting the mass eviction of farmers and Native Hawaiians. She also talks about her active role in the protests at Hilo airport. Available online via ScholarSpace.

This dissertation examines the Hale Mohalu struggle of 1978-1983, while placing it in the larger context of more than a century of Hawaiian resistance against injustice. Native Hawaiians defied the colonial, paternalistic attitude of the Hawai'i State Department of Health in a standoff for self-determination at Hale Mohalu, the residential leprosy facility in Pearl City, Honolulu. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

In Kalaupapa, 2017, p.485-494. Kalaupapa combines more than 200 hours of interviews with archival documents, including over 300 letters and petitions written by the earliest residents translated from Hawaiian. This book presents at long last the story of Kalaupapa as told by its people.

Released as a videocassette. Discussion of the forced eviction of Hansen's disease patients from their home, Hale Mohalu, Pearl City, Hawaii. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

A periodical journal with the latest happenings regarding the Hale Mohalu struggle.