Overview

Contains a sworn affidavit detailing the Native Hawaiian perspective on natural resources, particularly water, the aquaculture of loʻi kalo, and cultural values between Hawaiian farmers and konohiki. Additionally discusses the impact of private ownership by plantation owners, leading to the deprivation of water and lands, and the erasure of Kānaka use-rights. Includes hand-written notes.

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Contains a presentation identifying the problems which contributed to a decline in Hawaiʻiʻs once self-sufficient, subsistence economy, and details background history on subsistence practices, how land was privatized in Hawaiʻi, and how land was taken from the people of Hawaiʻi. [NOTE; Two copies are as they containt different annotations.\

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Contains a speech regarding the sophisticated water sharing system of Native Hawaiians, including their philosophies. Includes a faxed description of instructions as to how the presentations on water would be ordered and located. Additionally includes handwritten notes.

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Contains a presentation given to the Pacific Beach Hotel about the history of land tenure in Hawai'i, and how and why it changed from use rights to private ownership.

Overview Contains testimony linking the development of the H-3 to Hawaiʻi’s market economy and the political influence and debts incurred by the plantation system. Highlights flawed decision-making processes, citing inadequate archaeological evidence and conclusions regarding Northern Halawa which allowed the H-3 to be built. Included are maps of the H-3 route, surveys by Bishop Museum, and memorandums discussing historic preservation review and archaeological mitigation plans, revealing oversights...

Scope and Contents Contains a speech given at the Womenʻs Conference at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa regarding the matrilineal society of Native Hawaiians, and how that shifted upon missionary influence. Includes a second draft additionally detailing missionary control of chiefs, settlement of Christians, privatization of land, land tax of 1859, adverse possession, and other taxing laws. Further includes historical white supremacy in the U.S., two supplemental documents, one of which is a retyped...

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Background information and a resolution on preserving the Luluku Agricultural Terraces, to be discussed at a session during the World Archaeological Congress conference. Includes correspondence and conference materials related to the World Archaeological Congress.