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by Gregory Rosenthal


  79. Honokaa Sugar Company, Cash Book 1875–1877, HSC V.2A, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Archive, Hawaiian Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Honokaa Sugar Company, Payroll Book 1876–1878, HSC O-1/1, ibid. I use the contemporary spelling “Honokaʻa” when referring to the place on Hawaiʻi Island, but the older spelling “Honokaa” when referring to the eponymously named nineteenth-century company.

  EPILOGUE

  1. Matthew Kester, Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, and Religion in the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). On Hawaiians and Mormonism, see Hōkūlani K. Aikau, A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012).

  2. “Defining America: Exploring the 2010 Census,” CNN, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/defining.america/map/index.html?hpt=hp_abar (accessed July 4, 2016); Toshio Meronek, “Islands in the Sand: Why Thousands of Hawaiian Prisoners are Languishing in the Arizona Desert,” Hyphen, January 24, 2013.

  3. Corrections Corporation of America, “A Commitment to Culture,” January 28, 2009, https://www.cca.com/insidecca/a-commitment-to-culture (accessed July 4, 2016); Meronek, “Islands in the Sand”; Audrey McAvoy, “Isle Inmates in Arizona Win Class-Action Status for Religion Suit,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, October 4, 2014; Eli Hager and Rui Kaneya, “The Prison Visit that Cost My Family $2,370: How Loved Ones Bear the Hidden Cost of Shipping Inmates Out of State,” The Marshall Project, April 12, 2016; Nelson Daranciang, “Inmate Sues State over Prison Policy Banning Letters Written in Hawaiian,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 3, 2016. On this topic, also see Healani Sonoda, “A Nation Incarcerated,” in Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi, ed. Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Y. Okamura (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2008), 99–115.

  4. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, “Report on Homelessness Among American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians,” September 27, 2012, https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/report-on-homelessness-among-american-indians-alaska-natives (accessed July 4, 2016); Anna Keala Kelly, “Portrait. Marie Beltran and Annie Pau: Resistance to Empire, Erasure, and Selling Out,” in A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty, ed. Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 36–47; Kalamaokaʻāina Niheu, “Puʻuhonua: Sanctuary and Struggle at Mākua,” in ibid., 161–79.

  5. Nathan Eagle, “Homeless in Hawaii? State Will Fly You Back to Family on Mainland,” Honolulu Civil Beat, July 23, 2013.

  6. Brittany Lyte, “Hawaiian Natives Have Been Waiting Since 1920 for Promised Land,” Al Jazeera America, July 11, 2015. For a history of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, see J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).

  7. Lindsay Hixson, Bradford B. Hepler, and Myoung Ouk Kim, “The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Briefs, May 2012, http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-12.pdf (accessed July 4, 2016). On late twentieth-century life in the Hawaiian diaspora, see Rona Tamiko Halualani, In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

  8. Caspar Whitney, Hawaiian America: Something of its History, Resources, and Prospects (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899), 51, 67; William W. Goodale, “Brief History of Hawaiian Unskilled Labor,” Thrum’s Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1914 (1913): 170–91, esp. 170–71, 183; Joseph Nāwahī, as quoted in Noenoe K. Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 137–38. On cultural work, also see Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Adria L. Imada, Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).

  9. Kalamaokaʻaina Niheu, Laurel Mei Turbin, and Seiji Yamada, “The Impact of the Military Presence in Hawaiʻi on the Health of Na Kānaka Maoli,” Developing Human Resources for Health in the Pacific 14, no. 1 (2007): 205–12; Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh, “Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawaiʻi” (Ph.D. diss., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2016).

  10. On food sovereignty, see Leʻa Malia Kanehe, “Kūʻē Mana Māhele: The Hawaiian Movement to Resist Biocolonialism,” in A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty, edited by Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 331–53; Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaʻakahaʻopulani Hobart, “Tropical Necessities: Ice, Taste, and Territory in Settler Colonial Hawaiʻi” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 2016).

  11. Eric Pape, “Living Hawaii: Where the Rent Is Too Damn High,” Honolulu Civil Beat, November 25, 2014; Office of Hawaiian Affairs, “An Assessment of Rental Housing Affordability and its Impact in Native Hawaiian Communities,” Hoʻokahua Waiwai (Economic Self-Sufficiency) Fact Sheet 2015, no. 1 (September 2015), http://www.oha.org/wp-content/uploads/An-Assessment-of-Rental-Housing-Affordability-and-its-Impact-in-Native-Hawaiian-Communities.-2015.pdf (accessed July 4, 2016).

  GLOSSARY

  Nouns in the Hawaiian language are generally preceded by a particle that signifies whether the word is singular or plural. Singular particles include ka and ke; a common plural particle is nā. For example, ka ʻāina (land) versus nā ʻāina (lands). Readers may at times encounter these particles in the text preceding Hawaiian-language terms. The following glossary provides simple definitions that are used in this book. For further elaboration on the multiple meanings of these words, see Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian, rev. ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1986).

  AHObreath

  AHUPUAʻAtraditional Hawaiian land division

  ʻĀINAland

  ʻĀINA ʻĒforeign land

  ʻAʻOshearwater (bird)

  AKUAgod

  ʻALAfragrant; fragrance

  ALIʻIchief; ruler

  ALIʻI NUIhigh chief

  ALOHAlove; greetings; affection; sentiments

  DALA (KĀLĀ)“dollar”; money

  EAsovereignty; independence

  ʻEHUspray; foam; mist; dust; pollen

  HAEflag

  HALEhouse

  HANAwork

  HAOLEforeigner; white person

  HAPA HAOLEsomeone of mixed Hawaiian/white ancestry

  HAWAIʻI NEIthis beloved Hawaiʻi

  HEIAUtemple

  HOʻOKUPUtribute

  ʻILIskin

  ʻILIAHIsandalwood (plant)

  ʻILIMAsida fallax (plant)

  KAIsea

  KĀKAU“tattoo”

  KALOtaro (plant)

  KAMAʻĀINAsomeone considered a local of a place; sometimes used to describe a Hawaiʻi-born person but not necessarily Native/indigenous

  KANAKA (S.) / KĀNAKA (PL.)person/people, sometimes gendered as man/men; in contemporary usage, and when capitalized as Kanaka/Kānaka, specifically refers to Native Hawaiian people. European and Euro-American usage of the term “kanaka” has its own history. See pages 2–5.

  KAONAhidden meaning, in the context of literature, poetry, and song lyrics

  KAPAcloth; clothing, traditionally made from bark of the wauke tree

  KAPU“taboo”; law; restriction; sacred

  KAUĀservant; slave

  KEIKIchild; boy

  KIAʻĀINAgovernor

  KINObody; physical self

  KIOEAcurlew (bird)

  KŌsugar cane (plant)

  KOAʻEtropicbird

  KOHOLĀwhale

  KŌLEAplover (bird)

  KONOHIKIland manager; later, tax collector

  KUA LEHOlit., “calloused back”

  KUANO“guano”

  KŪKAE MANUguano

&nbs
p; KUKUIcandlenut (plant)

  KULEANAright; privilege; responsibility

  LĀʻAUwood; tree

  LĀHUInation; people

  LĀLĀbranch; limb

  LE“lay” (a percentage of total profits distributed to a whale worker at the end of the voyage)

  LEInecklace

  LIMAHANAlaborer

  LUKAU“lookout” (job on a whaling ship)

  LUNAboss; overseer

  MĀHELEdivision; to divide; to apportion

  MAʻIdisease; sickness; illness

  MAʻI PĀKĒ“Chinese disease”; an early term used for Hansen’s disease, or leprosy

  MAKAʻĀINANAcommoner

  MAKANIwind

  MAKEdead; death

  MĀLAMA ʻĀINAcare for the land

  MANApower; divine power; sacred power; political authority

  MELEsong; poetry; lyrics

  MOANAocean

  MŌʻīmonarch; king

  MOKUship; island; district

  NŪ HOUnews

  NŪPEPAnewspaper

  ʻOHANAfamily

  ʻŌLELOlanguage; word

  ʻŌLELO HAWAIʻIHawaiian language

  PAʻI ʻAIundiluted, cooked kalo (taro), in a dough-like state

  PĀKĒearly term used to denote a Chinese person

  PALAOAsperm whale

  PALAPALAreading; writing; text

  PANIPANIsexual intercourse

  PAUdone; completed; finished

  PAU HANAthe end of the workday

  PILIKIAtrouble; burden

  POIcooked kalo (taro), mashed and thinned with water

  PONOjust; proper; right; the ways things should be

  PŪLEHOLEHOcowry shell

  ʻUALAsweet potato (plant)

  UKUwage

  UKU MALAMAmonthly wage

  ʻŪLILItattler (bird)

  WAHINEwoman

  WAIMAKAtears

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

  Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts

  James Hunnewell, Business Papers, 1823–1883

  Isaiah Lewis Letter Book

  The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

  Kimball Hale Dimmick Papers

  Documentos para la historia de California, 1827–1858

  Fitch Family Papers

  William Little Lee letters

  William A. Leidesdorff Papers

  Papers on the History of California, 1846–1865

  Margaret A. Ramsland and Henry Keʻaʻaʻla Azbill, “The Forgotten Californians”

  John Augustus Sutter Papers

  Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Library and Archives, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

  D.C. Waterman & Co. Business correspondence

  G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut

  Chelsea (ship), Journal

  Hannibal (ship), Journal

  New London Crew Lists Index, 1803–1878

  California Historical Society, San Francisco

  William A. Leidesdorff collection

  Letter books of the U.S. Consul in Hawaii

  Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  Honokaa Sugar Company, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Archive

  Lihue Plantation Company, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Archive

  Hawaiʻi State Archives, Honolulu

  Collector General of Customs Seamen’s Records, Record Group 88

  Correspondence with Hawaiian Officials Abroad, 1842–1900, Record Group 404

  Harbormaster’s Shipping Articles, 1862–1900, Record Group 89

  Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

  Castle & Cooke Business Papers, 1850–1915

  Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Pacific Islands Missions Records, 1819–1960

  Josiah Marshall Letters and Accounts

  The Huntington Library, San Marino, California

  Edward Brinley, Jr. Papers

  Dole Family Papers

  George H. Dole Papers

  Early California Population Project Database, 2006. Accessed July 17, 2013. http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPmain.htm.

  Nathaniel Bright Emerson Papers

  Log of the ship Hillman

  Journal and Logbook of John T. Hudson

  William A. Leidesdorff Papers

  Log of the ship Reindeer

  Letters of Giles Waldo

  Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

  Log of the ship Atahualpa

  Charles B. Bullard Letterbook

  Lewis Coolidge Diary, 1806–1811

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Journal of a Voyage to the Coast of California, 1834–1836

  Edward Horatio Faucon Logbooks

  John Percival Papers

  Charles Pickering Journal, 1838–1841

  William Sturgis Papers

  Sultan (ship) Account Book

  John Suter Papers

  New-York Historical Society

  James B. Ames, Diary, 1829–1830

  Henry Erben, Jr. Papers

  Isaac Iselin, Notes and Excerpts, 1880

  Italy (ship) Account book

  Charles Bernhard Richard, Travel Sketches, being a Narrative of his Travels from 1846 to 1849

  New York Public Library

  Adeline (ship) Logbook

  Samuel Hill Papers

  Levant (ship) Logbook

  NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

  Daily Alta California

  The Friend

  Ka Elele Hawaii

  Ka Hae Hawaii

  Ka Hoku Loa

  Ka Hoku o Ka Pakipika

  Ka Lahui Hawaii

  Ka Nonanona

  Ka Nupepa Kuokoa

  Ke Au Okoa

  Ke Koo o Hawaii

  The New York Times

  Sacramento Daily Union

  Sacramento Transcript

  Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society

  HAWAIIAN-LANGUAGE PRIMARY SOURCES

  Halaulani, J.A.K. “Ke holo nei ka Hookamakama o na wahine o Hilo [The going-ons of Prostitution of the women of Hilo].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, April 27, 1865.

  “He Goula Ma Kalifornia [Gold at California].” Ka Elele Hawaii, August 26, 1848.

  “He lono mai ke Kai Anu o Alika [News from the Cold Sea of the Arctic].” Ka Lahui Hawaii, October 7, 1875.

  “He mai Pake [Chinese disease].” Ka Hae Hawaii, May 2, 1860.

  “He mau wahi olelo no ka holo ana o na kanaka maoli i Kaliponia [A few words on the going of Hawaiians to California].” Ka Hae Hawaii, April 17, 1861.

  “He Mele Inoa no Kekaulike [A Name Song for Kekaulike].” Ke Koo o Hawaii, September 12, 1883.

  “Ina makamaka me na pili koko o . . . [If friends with the blood relatives of . . . ].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, June 28, 1873.

  Ioane [John]. Letter to the editor. Ka Nonanona, April 25, 1843.

  “Ka Hae Hawaii [The Hawaiian Flag].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, January 1, 1862.

  “Ka Hoomainoino i na Pake [The Abuse of the Chinese].” Ka Hae Hawaii, September 19, 1860.

  “Ka Mai Pake [Chinese Disease].” Ke Au Okoa, June 26, 1865.

  “Ka Moku Kipi Kenedoa [The Rebel Ship Shenandoah].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, June 29, 1865.

  Kaelemakule, J.A. “Kohola [Whales].” Ka Hae Hawaii, May 5, 1858.

  ———. “No ka Mahi ko [Concerning the Sugar Plantation].” Ka Hoku o Ka Pakipika, December 26, 1861.

  Kailiopio, J.M. “Mai Puakailima mai [From Puakailima].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, December 23, 1865.

  ———. “Moolelo o ka Mokupuni Baker’s Is. Puakailima [History of Baker’s Island/Puakailima].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, July 7, 1866.

  Kalākaua, David. Statement on behalf of “ka Papa Hoopae Lima Hana [The Board to Land Laborers].” Ke Au Okoa, July 24, 1865.

  “Kalifornia [California].
” Ka Elele Hawaii, August 26, 1848.

  Kaluahine, G.W. “Make ma Bakers Island Puakailima [Death at Baker’s Island/Puakailima].” Ka Hae Hawaii, August 14, 1861.

  ———. “No na Aina Kukae Manu [Concerning the Guano Lands].” Ka Hae Hawaii, August 24, 1859.

  Kamae, B.E. “No ke aloha o ka poe Kalifonia [Concerning the love of the California people].” Ka Hae Hawaii, July 14, 1858.

  Kamakau, S.M. “O ke ano o kekahi mau mea o ka Lahui Hawaii [The character of some things of the Hawaiian Nation].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, August 8, 1868.

  Kamika, L. [Lowell Smith]. “Ku holo ana o L. Kamika mai Sacramenato i Coloma [The going of L. Smith from Sacramento to Coloma].” Ka Hae Hawaii, January 12, 1859.

  Kamipele, T.B. “No Kalifonia Mai [From California].” Ka Hae Hawaii, July 3, 1861.

  Kaonowai, J.H. “No ka poe mai ino Pake [Concerning the people with the wicked Chinese disease].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, March 9, 1865.

  Kapu, J. “No ka mai Colera [Concerning the Cholera sickness].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, November 30, 1867.

  ———. “Palapala mai Kaleponi mai: No Ka Auhau Ana o Na Holoholona Ma Calefonia Mei, a me Na Pili [Letter From California: Concerning the Taxing of Animals in California, and Grass].” Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, July 11, 1868.

  Kaulainamoku, S.W.B. “No ka maikai o na Aina Kukaemanu o G.P. Judd [Concerning the well-being of the Guano Lands of G.P. Judd].” Ka Hae Hawaii, December 14, 1859.

  Kaulainamoku, [S.W.B.], et al. “Mea hou ma Jarvis Island [News at Jarvis Island].” Ka Hae Hawaii, November 9, 1859.

  “Ke emi wawe loa nei ka nui o na mokukohola . . . [The number of whaling ships is presently very quickly diminishing . . . ].” Ka Hae Hawaii, April 17, 1861.

  Kealoha, Charles Edward. “He Moolelo Walohia! Ka noho pio ana iwaena o ka Lahui Naguru ma Alika! Ka ike hou ana i ka aina! [A Heartwrenching Tale! Living as a captive amongst the Naguru people in the Arctic! Seeing Land Again!]” Ka Lahui Hawaii, November 8 and 15, 1877.

 

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