Hawaii

Book Review of: A Nation Rising edited by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright.

Book review of: A Nation Rising edited by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright.

Book review of: A Nation Rising edited by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'öpua, Ikaika Hussey and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright.

Outlines key positions and legislation regarding Native education.

Report has information about demographics, reservations and land maps, community issues, educational issues, schools types, Indian Education Legislation and Native organizations.

Dialogue presents definitions and a history of education from a Hawaiian perspective.

Study involved three focus groups with a total of 33 participants aged 55 or older.

Scholarship program purposes are to increase the number of Native Hawaiians in health professions and to get them back to serving in communities in need.

Compares the different types of caregiving support offered and provided by Native Hawaiian, Asian and Caucasian males.

Comments on physicians who serve a medically underserved area/population.

Discusses the historic events that have impacted Native Hawaiians and reviews psychology research from an Indigenous perspective.

Looks at the problem of cancer in Native American communities and provides information on what works for prevention and control.

Study confirms that priorities for both researchers and Indigenous populations needs to be taken into account to ensure a mutually satisfying outcome.

Comments on the success of the Hawaiian medium education program and the challenges involved in expanding the program to include more children.

Discusses the Aha Punana Leo language immersion program which attempts to revitalize Hawaiian language, culture and values in children.

Notes on the Edward E. Ayer collection, located in The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Historical note:

"In 1911 Edward E. Ayer, a Chicago businessman, presented to The Newberry Library his collection of historical source material relating chiefly to the discovery, exploration and colonization of North America and to the native races of North America, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippine Islands. It contains at present about 49,000 volumes, bound pamphlets, manuscripts, documents and other accessioned pieces."

Discusses the tragic legacy of the U.S. nuclear testing program and the group made up of students from around the Pacific who are working in solidarity for a peaceful and just Oceania.

Book reviews of: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century North-west Coast by Paige Raibmon. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.

Comparative History of Ideas Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2005

Findings indicate that individuals with a greater net worth show a increased probability to earn a college degree.

Concluded that telemedicine has potential to supplement and improve patient-provider relationships and improve outcomes.

Discusses how asset-based social welfare interventions can assist Indigenous people in achieving financial independence and becoming financially self-sufficient.

Film about the Hawaiian approach to gender diversity and a true story about a girl who wants to be in an all-boy hula troupe at her school. For grades 6-12. Duration: 24:41 Discussion Guide.

Discussion guide to accompany A Place in the Middle, true story about a girl who wants to be in an all-boy hula troupe at her school. For grades 6-12. Watch A Place in the Middle.

To accompany film about the Hawaiian approach to gender diversity and the true story about a girl who wants to be in an all-boy hula troupe at her school. For use with Grades 4 to 12.

Academic and grey literature review conducted on: key issues; principles and desired outcomes; recent historical programs and policies; program and policy recommendations; and international program and policy examples. Options were then examined to determine whether they aligned with principles and desired outcomes, as well as feasibility and viability in current social context.

Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Leadership Studies Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Francisco, 2013.

Human rights advocates discusses her views on the rights of Indigenous peoples to own, develop and benefit from their traditional lands and natural resources.

A study looking at the connection between self-reported risk of negative life events and mental health symptoms among Indigenous and non-indigenous groups in Hawaii.

Looks at a program that specifically provides healthcare services to enrollees classified as aged, blind, disabled, in-state foster children and children who live out-of-state in subsidized adoption.

Speaker discusses ongoing activism by Hawaiians to assert sovereignty and protect their environment, the movement to stop the construction of a new telescope on the sacred peak of Mauna Kea, and how it has been utilizing social media. Duration 51:11.

Discusses examples of intellectual and aesthetic practices in Hawaiian literature that layer cultural and historic ideologies within deeper meanings and themes important to Hawaiian culture.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Liberty University, 2015.

Examines the memoirs of Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) which challenged the United States colonial construction of the Hawaiian nation, and became the historical foundation of the 1993 congressional apology to the Hawaiian people. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.

Study found symptoms of depression, anxiety, aggression, and substance abuse were correlated with suicide attempts.

Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.

Article explores the perception of Indigenous families' lack of interest in their children's education and finds socio-economic reasons that challenge conventional engagement.

Looks at the issues surrounding multiculturalism and multicultural education.

Gives a brief history of Hawaii, explains how the United States deprived an independent people of their right to self-determination, and discusses why Hawaii was used as command headquarters by the United States Pacific military forces.

Looks at the challenges of working within a western educational system while remaining true to self and cultural values.

History of Consciousness Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000.

Book review of, Remaking Pacific Pasts by Diana Looser.

The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

Studies community resistance to outside exploitation through methods rooted in Indigenous tradition and values.

Education Policy Studies (FIrst Nations Education) Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2001.