Making ‘Aha: Independent Hawaiian Pasts, Presents & Futures | Zendy

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘o̱pua | Zendy; Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada | Zendy

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Making ‘Aha: Independent Hawaiian Pasts, Presents & Futures

Author(s) -

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘o̱pua,

Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

daedalus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1548-6192

pISSN - 0011-5266

DOI - 10.1162/daed_a_00489

Subject(s) - sovereignty , futures contract , colonialism , resistance (ecology) , politics , history , genealogy , ethnology , political science , law , archaeology , ecology , biology , economics , financial economics

We use Hawaiian methods of knowledge production to weave together contemporary and historical instances of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) political resistance to U.S. imperialism and settler colonialism. Our departure point is the summer of 2014, when hundreds of Kānaka came forward to assert unbroken Hawaiian sovereignty and reject a U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) proposal to create a pathway for federal recognition of a reorganized Native Hawaiian governing entity. This essay situates testimonies from these hearings within a longer genealogy of Kanaka assertions of “ea” (sovereignty, life, breath) against the prolonged U.S. military occupation of Hawai'i that began in 1898 and extends to the present.

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