Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. About the Series xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. Life
8. Marie Beltran sits at a picnic table at Mokulēʻia, her ancestral home, where she and her family have asserted their right to remain even after several evictions by police. August 23, 1997. 36
9. Portrait. Marie Beltran and Annie Pau: Resistance to Empire, Erasure, and Selling Out 37
10. 1. Waiāhole-Waikāne 48
11. 2. “Our History, Our Way!”: Ethnic Studies for Hawaiʻi’s People 66
12. 3. E Ola Mau ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi: The Hawaiian Language Revitalization Movement 78
13. 4. Kauaʻi: Resisting Pressures to Change 86
14. 5. Kū i ka Pono: The Movement Continues 98
15. Portrait. Sam Kahaʻi Kaʻa 115
16. PART II. Land
17. Puhipau, also known as Abraham Ahmad, made regular deliveries of ice to Sand Island residents and lived there himself from 1970 to 1980. Politicized by the state’s arrests and subsequent destruction of 135 homes, Puhipau joined forces with Joan Lander to become one of the most prolific and widely known documentary film teams in Hawai‘i—Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, the eyes of the land. November 10, 1979. 126
18. (Self-)Portrait. Puhipau: The Ice Man Looks Back at the Sand Island Eviction 127
19. 6. Hawaiian Souls: The Movement to Stop the U.S. Military Bombing of Kahoʻolawe 137
20. 7. Pu‘uhonua: Sanctuary and Struggle at Mākua 161
21. 8. Wao Kele O Puna and the Pele Defense Fund 180
22. 9. A Question of Wai: Seeking Justice through Law for Hawaiʻi’s Streams and Communities 199
23. 10. Aia i Hea ka Wai a Kāne? (Where Indeed Is the Water of Kāne?): Examining the East Maui Water Battle 220
24. Portrait. Mauna a Wākea: Hānau ka Mauna, the Piko of Our Ea 233
25. PART III. Sovereignty
26. Aunty Nani Rogers sits at the beach on her island, Kauaʻi. Photograph used with permission of the photographer, Bryna Rose Storch 246
27. Portrait. Puanani Rogers 247
28. 11. Outside Shangri La: Colonization and the U.S. Occupation of Hawai‘i 252
29. 12. Makeʻe Pono Lāhui Hawaiʻi: A Student Liberation Moment 267
30. 13. Ka Hoʻokolokolonui Kānaka Maoli, 1993: The Peoples’ International Tribunal, Hawaiʻi 283
31. 14. Ke Kūʻē Kūpaʻa Loa Nei K/Mākou (We Most Solemnly Protest): A Memoir of 1998 303
32. 15. Resisting the Akaka Bill 312
33. 16. Kūʻē Mana Māhele: The Hawaiian Movement to Resist Biocolonialism 331
34. Portrait. Puanani Burgess: He Alo a he Alo 355
35. Bibliography 363
36. Contributors 379
37. General Index 383
38. Index to Hawaiʻi Place Names 391
39. Index to Personal Names 395