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Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

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In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow america to annex Hawai’i, native Hawaiians organized a major petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail within the U.S. Senate. This event used to be unknown to many up to date Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition within the process of researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai’i’ve been based exclusively on English-language sources. They’ve not taken into account the thousands of pages of newspapers, books, and letters written within the mother tongue of native Hawaiians. By rigorously analyzing many of these documents, Silva fills a a very powerful gap within the historical record. In so doing, she refutes the long-held idea that native Hawaiians passively accepted the erosion in their culture and lack of their nation, showing that they actively resisted political, economic, linguistic, and cultural domination. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced within the nineteenth century and early twentieth, Silva demonstrates that print media used to be central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. A powerful critique of colonial historiography, Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism.

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