#haunani-kay trask

[freehawaii]

SAY IT

#free hawaii #hawaiian kingdom #haunani-kay trask

[allaroundtheworld55]

#55 #555 #5555 #land back #stolen land #hawaii #haunani-kay trask

[thozhar]

“We are not American. We are not American. We are not American. Say it in your hearts. Say it in your sleep. We are not American. We will die as Hawaiians. We will never be Americans.”

— Haunani-Kay Trask

#haunani-kay trask #hawaii

[lowcountry-gothic]

When historians wrote that the [Hawaiian] king owned the land and the common people were bound to it, they were saying that ownership was the only way human beings in their world could relate to the land, and in that relationship, some one person had to control both the land and the interaction between humans. And when they said that our chiefs were despotic, they were telling of their own society, where hierarchy always resulted in domination. Thus, any authority or elder was automatically suspected of tyranny. And when they wrote that Hawaiians were lazy, they meant that work must be continuous and ever a burden. And when they wrote that we were promiscuous, they meant that lovemaking in the Christian West was a sin. And when they wrote that we were racist because we preferred our own ways to theirs, they meant that their culture needed to dominate other cultures. And when they wrote that we were superstitious, believing in the mana of nature and people, they meant that the West has long since lost a deep spiritual and cultural relationship to the earth. And when they wrote that Hawaiians were ‘primitive’ in their grief over the passing of loved ones, they meant that the West grieves for the living who do not walk among their ancestors.

Haunani Kay-Trask, From a Native Daughter, p. 117-118

#quotes #haunani kay-trask #from a native daughter #hawaii #history #imperialism

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Haunani-Kay Trask! (October 3, 1949)

A leading figure in the movement for Hawaiian independence, Haunani-Kay Trask was born in San Francisco before her family moved to O'ahu. She pursued an academic career, earning her PhD in political science in 1981. A Native Hawaiian, Trask founded the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and heavily promoted and pioneered Hawaiian Studies as a discipline. Politically, Trask identified with left-wing currents, protesting against the Vietnam War and supporting the Black Panther Party. She utilized feminist theory, although she criticized mainstream American feminism as overly focused on white womanhood, and opposed the US military's presence in Hawaii while also opposing tourism to the islands. She was also opposed to efforts to group Native Hawaiians together legally with Native American tribes, and any efforts to further erode Hawaiian sovereignty. Her book From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi is considered to be a seminal work of anti-colonial literature. Trask continued her advocacy and work until her death in 2021.

"Our story remains unwritten. It rests within the culture, which is inseparable from the land. To know this is to know our history. To write this is to write of the land and the people who are born from her."

#birthdays #haunani kay trask

[antiwaradvocates]

“We are not American! We are not American! Say it in your hearts, say it when you sleep. We are not American, we will die as Hawaiians. We will never be Americans...They took our land. They imprisoned our queen. They banned our language. They forcibly made us a colony of the United States.” - Haunani Kay Trask

#colonialism #Hawaii #colonialization #America #USA #hawai’i #haunani kay trask #free hawaii

[garadinervi]

Haunani-Kay Trask, (1993), Native Student Organizing: The Case of the University of Hawai'i, in From a Native Daughter. Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, in association with the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1999, Revised edition, pp. 185-192

#graphic design #book #haunani kay trask #honolulu university of hawai'i press #kamakakūokalani center for hawaiian studies #1990s

[rafaelsilvasource]

Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask was a Kanaka Maoli activist, author, and poet who fought and organized relentlessly for Indigenous sovereignty of Kanaka Maoli land.

She served as leader of the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement and she was a founding member of Ka Lahui Hawaii, an organization that promotes self-determination for Native Kanaka Maoli.

Her passion is undeniable as seen in this clip and it resonates to this day. “You think you are in America. You are not in America. You are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken.”

Link | Shared by Rafael Silva via IG Stories - May 31, 2022

#instagram #ig stories #may 2022 #dr haunani-kay trask

[unavernales]

me: hotels are money hungry corporations that don’t care about native hawaiians

people who refuse to do a cursory google search: source?

#like brooooo do you even know how many hotels are on this island #the Hawaiian Renaissance didn’t happen for y’all to give hotels built on burial grounds the benefit of the doubt #ooc; hand over the gender #say what you want about haunani Kay trask but if she were still here she would be on NECKS #bissen and green would be pissing themselves and so would the entirety of wailea

[paddy-garcia-70]

#haunani Kay trask #sovereignty #Hawaii #decolonization

[freehawaii]

ON JEOPARDY - MAY 24, 2022

#what is hawaii #jeopardy #haunani-kay trask #free hawaii #hawaiian kingdom

[padawan-historian]

If you are talking about the human tragedy and climate disaster impacting Hawai’i ONLY in relation to tourism or your (postponed) vacation plans . . . therein lies the problem.

Hawai'i is not an "eat, pray, love" trip nor is she a cultural theme park.

Hawai’i is a collection of communities with deep indigenous roots and ancestral identities (many queer + colorful) that American + European colonizers once attempted to eradicate.

In the present day, empire-builders and colorblind colonizers are attempting to gentrify and commodify these ancestral spaces, not to benefit the indigenous, diaspora, and immigrant folks (folx) who steward and preserve those waterways and lands, but to protect the interests and properties of billionaires on vacation

Afronaut Note: This is not a discussion about policing language or shaming folks in your neighborhood who are sharing vacation pictures or lamenting their travel plans. This is about expanding our horizons to center decolonized, ancestral, and communal spaces. Imagine if after the Japanese tsunami (2011) or Hurricane Katrina (2005), people shared vacation pictures and complained about having to cancel their graduation trips.

Original post from @seedingsovereignty

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"Our culture has to be the core of our mana." Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask (1949 – 2021)⁠

A leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement & a fearless leader.⁠

Her memory is needed during these times. ⁠

Support the People of Hawai’i

#we are not americans #indigenous rights #Flowers for Hawai’i #our world #ecosystem of white supremacy #slow growth activism #our history is your history

[friedchiliflakess]

hello do you have an article from like a Respectable Source ™️ on hand about the exploitation of native Hawaiians? I'm trying to radicalize my lib mom on it and I can't find a solid overview.

it can definitely be a Long Read, I just want it to cover the colonialist history, the land theft, and the ongoing human rights abuses to support tourism like the fucked land grant program and the water rationing and stuff. I'm probably only gonna be able to get her to read one

"FROM A NATIVE DAUGHTER: COLONIALISM AND SOVEREIGNTY IN HAWAII" by Dr. Haunani Kay Trask is a good place to start.

"a provocative, well-reasoned attack against the rampant abuse of Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, and gender discrimination...the master plan of the Native Hawaiian self-governing organization Ka Lahui Hawai'i and its platform on the four political arenas of sovereignty; the 1989 Hawai'i declaration of the Hawai'i ecumenical coalition on tourism; and a typology on racism and imperialism."

its a book that everyone should read as it only rings more true as the years pass by.

but honestly if you just search up "books on the exploitation of native hawaiians" you're sure to find ones with lots of history and info (ones written by indigenous scholars are the way to go ofc).

i dont have any overarching articles on hand that cover everything but im sure local news sources will have past articles on specific issues if u search on them:

Honolulu Civil Beat

Hawaii News Now

i get most my info & updates from kānaka maoli & groups i follow on social media, but they usually have links to local articles where they get their info from. Some groups on instagram (that are also on twitter) that bring awareness to current events (like the fight to protect Mauna Kea from developers, the Red Hill navy fuel spill crisis, housing crisis across Hawaiʻi, struggle for native indigenous water rights, & protecting ʻāina) are:

AlohaAdvocacy

ʻĀina Momona

Kaʻohewai

Puʻuhuluhulu

these are only a few... check who they follow for more advocacy groups if youre interested.

also @tf2mobilegame had a few articles about the high cost of living in Hawaiʻi on their original post. i used to have a video saved about the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and how messed up it is (underfunded + slow rollout + native families have been on the list to get their ancestral lands back for DECADES but will not be home owners in their generation + 50% native blood quantum requirement) but i think it got deleted. if i find it i will link it here. but heres an article about the shit houses DHHL provided to native hawaiians who were finally able to get housed.

Dancette Yockman, just one out of 28,000 native hawaiians on the DHHL waitlist, who has been waiting 50 years for a piece of land to call her own.

lastly:

heres a MUTUAL AID post with donation links you can save, reblog, & donate to.

heres more links to PETITIONS & places to donate to help local organizations protect hawaiian land.

The Price of Paradise is another place to donate reparations to create grants for Native Hawaiian businesses, non-profits, families, & individuals.

TLDR; read From a Native Daughter by Dr. Haunani Kay Trask to start. Mahalo & Fa'afetai lava to anyone who shares or adds onto this!

#rbs & info appreciated!!!! #moot aid #hawaii #land back #indigenous rights #chili reply #colonialism #imperialism

[lowcountry-gothic]

…the history of indigenous people cannot be written from within Western culture. Such a story is merely the West’s story of itself.

Haunani Kay-Trask, From a Native Daughter, p. 120-121

#quotes #haunani kay-trask #from a native daughter #hawaii #indigenous people #imperialism #history

[kummatty]

hello. I think you have a great blog and amazing tastes and I was wondering if you had any book recommendations? fiction or non-fiction, though I tend to read more fiction. I'm afraid I do not read enough books that were written outside North America/Europe and I would love to change that. anyway, sorry for the disturbance, I hope you are well <3

hi dear anon, i hope you're well too <3 im so sorry this has been sitting in my inbox forever! i hope you see it. thank u for ur kind words, i'm happy to share some recs! they'll be a mix of authors from north america/europe as well as outside those regions, and most will be writers of color bc that's who I tend to look for and read, i also gravitate towards fiction but ill try to do both. * = i've read it and would definitely recommend, and the rest are on my tbr that ive heard good things about and/or really want to get to myself.

I would also look out for presses that publish specifically translations and non-Western stories - two lines press, europa, transit books, open books, greywolf press - and you can look to who they're interacting w as well to expand your search for these kinds of books. happy reading <3

fiction:

vagabonds! by eloghosa osunde*

annie john by jamaica kincaid*

if an egyptian cannot speak english by noor naga*

the remainder by alia trabucco zerán, trans. sophie hughes*

sula by toni morrison*

scattered all over the earth by yoko tawada, trans. margaret mitsutani*

the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhader*

a passage north by anuk arudpragasam*

the hour of the star by clarice lispector*

an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon*

the umbrella country by bino a. realuyo*

the unpassing by chia-chia lin*

aquarium by david vann*

bright by duanwad pimwana, trans. mui pooposakul

hostages of memory by haitham hussein, trans. jona fras

mother of 1084 by mahasweta devi, trans. samik bandyopadhyay

on a woman's madness by astrid h. roemer, trans. lucy scott

the wild hunt by emma seckel

ornamental by juan cárdenas, trans. lizzie davis

i stared at the night of the city by bakhtiyar ali, trans. kareem abdulrahman*

men in the sun, and other palestinian stories by ghassan kanafani (various translators)*

funny boy by shyam selvadurai

violets by kyung-sook shin, trans. anton hur

afterparties by anthony veasna so

nonfiction:

a map to the door of no return by dionne brand*

out of the sun: on race and storytelling by esi edugyan*

uncommon measure: a journey through music, performance, and the science of time by natalie hodges*

from a native daughter: colonialism and sovereignty in hawai'i by haunani-kay trask

braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by robin wall kimmerer

care work: dreaming disability justice by leah lakshmi piepzina-samarasinha

don't forget us here: lost and found at guantanamo by mansoor adayfi

the jakarta method: washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world by vincent bevins

a still life: a memoir by josie george

#i would love to know if you read any of these!

[antiwaradvocates]

The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. This loving obituary written by one of Trask’s mentees explores her powerful legacy.

#haunani kay trask #hawai’i #Hawaii #self determination #us imperialism