Making a nation and faking a state: illegal annexation and sovereignty miseducation in Hawai’i
As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship among aca- demics, which counter the U.S. history of annexation and occupation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa scholars have been addressing the discourse on De-occupation instead of pursuing a nation-with...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pazifische Studien e.V.
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Pacific Geographies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/PG46_Hermes.pdf |
| Summary: | As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship among aca- demics, which counter the U.S. history of annexation and occupation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa scholars have been addressing the discourse on De-occupation instead of pursuing a nation-within-a-nation arrangement of U.S. federal recognition.
This article describes the February 2016 ‘Aha Na’i Aupuni, a self-governance and constitution-writing meeting for and by Native Hawaiians, and includes the first-hand observations of one of the participating delegates. This Na’i Aupuni process is tied in with the recent protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea on Hawai’i Island in early 2015. The momentum of the Mauna Kea protests has led to a renewed sense of responsibility to educate on the history of illegal annexation, and on the significance of land for Hawaiians and Hawaiian sovereignty in particular. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-1468 2199-9104 |