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All Things Depending: Renewing Interdependence in Oceania
Author(s) -
Osorio Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2011.tb00109.x
Subject(s) - samoan , politics , pacific islanders , position (finance) , the arts , sociology , political science , history , environmental ethics , ethnology , anthropology , law , ethnic group , business , philosophy , linguistics , finance
Despite the enormous efforts made to civilize the Hawaiian, the Maori, the Samoan, and Fijian, Islanders have not forgotten all of their stories and in fact many Pacific peoples are in a position to recover much of the knowledge that sustained communities for thousands of years. There is hope in what we have done to reclaim our heritages—finding our voices in our languages, stories, and songs, our perspectives in our arts and literatures, our muscle and will in our own political advocacy and pursuit of our rights in courts and international arenas. There is need, however, for a new vision that reunites human beings with all of their relations in the world, a vision necessary to sustain a very difficult struggle.