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Hawaiʻi - Land Tenure Resources & Readings

Land Tenure

History | Land Court | Surveying | Kuleana Rights | Case Studies | Ownership

History

(1847) Principles adopted by the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles... by Hawaii Land Commission
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) HD1181 .H28
(1882) A brief history of land titles in the Hawaiian kingdom by Alexander, W. D.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1181 .H287
(1893) Evolution of Hawaiian land tenures... by Dole, Sanford B.
Call Number: Hawaiian DU620 .H397 no.3
Available in eVols
(1920) Land titles and surveys in Hawaii by Alexander, Arthur C. (Arthur Chambers)
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1181 .A44
(1935) Hawaii, a pageant of the soil by Hobbs, Jean
Call Number: Hawaiian HD191 .H63
Also available in HathiTrust
(1945) Hawaiian land titles by King, Robert Davis, 1882-1954
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1181 .K55
Includes excellent charts describing types of land records
(1956) Changes in land tenure in Hawaii, 1778-1850. by Kelly, Marion
Call Number: Hawaiian CB5 .H3 no.346
(1958) The Great Mahele : Hawaii's land division of 1848 by Chinen, Jon J.
Call Number: Hawaiian Reference (Library Use Only) HD216 .C45
Available in HathiTrust
(1971) Original land titles in Hawaii by Chinen, Jon J.
Call Number: Hawaiian KFH114.A1 C54 1971
Earlier version 1961
(1974) The origin of Hawaii land titles and of the rights of native tenants by Cannelora, Louis
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1181 .C35
(1980) Holy quest : the Puritan Americanization of Hawaii : the antifeudal Hawaiian revolution, 1839-1850 by Stauffer, Robert H.
Call Number: Hawaiian CB5 .H3 no.1455
(1986) Land and the promise of capitalism : a dilemma for the Hawaiian chiefs of the 1848 Māhele by Kameʻeleihiwa, Lilikalā
Call Number: Hawaiian AC1 .H3 no.2069
(1989) Native American estate : the struggle over Indian and Hawaiian lands by Parker, Linda S. (Linda Sue)
Call Number: Hawaiian E98.L3 P37 1989
Available in HathiTrust
(1992) Native land and foreign desires: Pehea lā e pono ai? = How shall we live in harmony? by Kame'eleihiwa, Lilikalā
Call Number: Hawaiian Reference (Library Use Only) DU624.65 .K357 1992
Available in HathiTrust
(2002) They cried for help : the Hawaiian land revolution of the 1840s & 1850s by Chinen, Jon J.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1333.U62 H33 2002
(2007) Nā Kuaʻāina : living Hawaiian culture by McGregor, Davianna
Call Number: Hawaiian Reference Place Names (Library Use Only) DU624.65 .M39 2007
Available in HathiTrust
(2007) Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska by Banner, Stuart
Call Number: Pacific DU29 .B24 2007
Also available online in OneSearch
(2010) The emperical writes back : re-examining Hawaiian dispossession resulting from the Māhele of 1848 by Preza, Donovan C.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) CB5 .H3 no.3652
(2011) The rise of western land and water regulation on the Hawaiian Islands : an historical analysis of land, property, and water governance, 1840s-1910s by Tamayose, Beth Chiyo
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) IN CATALOGING 3389353
Also available online in ProQuest
(2013) Kuleana: A genealogy of native tenant rights by Perkins, Mark
Call Number: Not available in print
Available in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
(2014) No mākou ka mana : liberating the nation by Beamer, Kamanamaikalani
Call Number: Hawaiian Reference (Library Use Only) DU627.2 .B43 2014

Land Court

(1903) Rules of the Court of Land Registration, Territory of Hawaii by Hawaii. Court of Land Registration
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) KFH126 .A4 1903
Available in HathiTrust
(1946) Land court registration (Torrens titles) and conveyancing in Hawaii by Hawaii. Land Court.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1208 .H25 1946
Second edition, First edition 1936
(1904) Land registration act of Hawaii, enacted as Act 56 of the session laws of 1903, with the decisions declaring its constitutionality, some introductory notes, simple forms of conveyance, table of costs and an index.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1208 .H275

Surveying

(1903) A history of the Hawaiian government survey with notes on land matters in Hawaii by Lyons, Curtis J. (Curtis Jere), 1833-1914.; Hawaii. Survey Department
Call Number: Hawaiian GA87.H3 L9a
Also available in eVols
(1937) Land surveying in Hawaii by Whitehouse, L. M.; Mulholland, P. H.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) HD1181 .W455
(1994) Boundary disputes in Hawaii by Bays, A. Bernard.; National Business Institute.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) KFH123.B6 B68 1994
(1995) Boundary law in Hawaii by Bays, A. Bernard.; Cummins, Patrick M.; Leuteneker, Tom C.; National Business Institute.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) KFH123.B6 B683 1995
Earlier versions: 1990; 1993
(1995) Surveying the Mahele : mapping the Hawaiian land revolution by Moffat, Riley Moore; Fitzpatrick, Gary L.
Call Number: Hawaiian Reference (Library Use Only) GA419.5 .P34 1986 v.2
Available on Ulukau
(2005) Huli ka palena by Beamer, B. Kamanamaikalani
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) CB5 .H3 no.3228
Available in ScholarSpace

Kuleana Rights

(1975) Native Hawaiian land rights by Levy, Neil M.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD226 .L49
Available Online via OneSearch
(1976) Land access and gathering rights as aboriginal rights of the commoner native Hawaiians by Baxa, Artemio C.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) HD1181 .B39
Also available in Hamilton
(2012) Hoʻohana aku, a hoʻōla aku : a legal primer for traditional and customary rights in Hawaiʻi by Forman, David M., author.; Serrano, Susan, author.; William S. Richardson School of Law.; Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Call Number: Hawaiian KFH411 .F67 2012
Also available in ScholarSpace
(2012) Where blood runs with the land : partition actions and the loss of native Hawaiian ancestral land by Chen, Stephanie M. author.; Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.
Call Number: Hawaiian KFH505.6.C57 W44 2012
Also available in ScholarSpace

Case Studies

(1973) Mapping of kuleana lands in Kahaluu by Hawaii Environmental Simulation Laboratory
Call Number: Hawaiian KFH114.K8 H38
(1990) Land tenure and land use in the ahupuaʻa of Moanalua, Oʻahu during the Great Mahele, 1848-1855 by Rigler, Malia Ann
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) CB5 .H3 no.2055
(1990) Land tenure in Kahana, Hawaiʻi, 1846-1920 by Stauffer, Robert H.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) AC1 .H3 no.2488
(1990) Land use at Kaʻawaloa, Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park, South Kona, Island of Hawaii, 1848-present by Alvarez, Patricia M.; Hawaii. Division of State Parks.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) DU629.K339 A58 1990
(1993) Land tenure and land use in Kawaihāpai, Oʻahu by Alameida, Roy Kakulu
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) CB5 .H3 no.2298
(1993) Settlement pattern for Waikapū, Wailuku District, Maui, Hawaii; LCAs for the ahupuaʻa of Waikapu, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii by Creed, Victoria
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) DU629.W3555 C74 1993
(1993) The Mahele documents of Wailua, Kauaʻi by Stauffer, Robert H.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1263.H3 S73 1993
(1995) Contested images of place in a multicultural context : the ahupuaʻa of Kanaio and Aʻuahi, Maui by Bordner, R. (Richard M.)
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) AC1 .H3 no.3122
Available in ScholarSpace
(1997) The legacy of the 1848 Māhele and Kuleana Act of 1850 : a case study of the Lāʻie Wai and Lāʻie Maloʻo ahupuaʻa, 1846-1930 by Stover, Jeffrey
Call Number: Hawaiian CB5 .H3 no.2641
(2001) Hāʻena, Ahupuaʻa : towards a Hawaiian geography by Andrade, Carlos L.
Call Number: Hawaiian AC1 .H3 no.4131
(2001) Historical land tenure in the Puna District, Island of Hawaii by Parrish, Abraham Kaleo
Call Number: Hawaiian DU629.P86 P37 2001
(2004) Kahana : how the land was lost by Stauffer, Robert H.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD1333.U62 H368 2004
Available Online
(2008) Hāʻena : through the eyes of the ancestors by Andrade, Carlos
Call Number: Hawaiian DU629.H18 A53 2008
(2002) Kīpāhoehoe ma Kapalilua--Kona Hema, Hawaiʻi : a cultural study of Kīpāhoehoe and neighboring lands in Kapalilaua, South Kona, Island of Hawaiʻi by Maly, Kepā, author.; Maly, Onaona, author.; Hawaii. Department of Land and Natural Resources, sponsoring agency.; NARS (Program); Kumu Pono Associates
Call Number: Hawaiian DU629.K65 M365 2002
Available Online

Ownership

(1932) Old Hawaiian land huis - their development and dissolution by Watson, Leslie James
Call Number: Hawaiian KFH455 .G68 2006
(1945) Land monopoly in Hawaii by Hanna, Hal F.
Call Number: Hawaiian HD191 .H35
(1957) A study of large land owners in Hawaii by Tanimura, Clinton T.; Kamins, Robert M.; University of Hawaii, Legislative Reference Bureau
Call Number: Hawaiian HD191 .T35
Also available in Hamilton Main
(1958) Reference materials on land problems in Hawaii by Midkiff, Frank E.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) HD266.H3 M54 1958
Focuses on the consolidation of land ownership in Hawaiʻi
(1961) Major landholdings in Hawaii; data on land ownership and land use by University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Legislative Reference Bureau
Call Number: Hawaiian HD191 .H39
(1963) Hawaii's lands and the changing regime by Horwitz, Robert H.
Call Number: Hawaiian (Library Use Only) HN933 .S6 v.26 p.65-69