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Aloha Betrayed

Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

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Aloha Betrayed

By: Noenoe K. Silva
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
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In 1897, as a White oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.

This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai'i have been based exclusively on English-language sources. They have not taken into account the thousands of pages of newspapers, books, and letters written in the mother tongue of native Hawaiians. By rigorously analyzing many of these documents, Silva fills a crucial gap in the historical record. In so doing, she refutes the long-held idea that native Hawaiians passively accepted the erosion of their culture and loss of their nation, showing that they actively resisted political, economic, linguistic, and cultural domination. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the 19th century and early 20th, Silva demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture.

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Brilliant!!! To hear Hawai'is story of the overthrow and how Hawai'i has become illegally occupied by the US government. May Hawai'i continue in our love for the land to aloha ʻāina and for one another. Eō! Ola. Ola. Ola.

Hawai'is truth

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As if it weren't bad enough to overthrow a legitimate government for avaricious and militaristic ends. Or erase native mythology and legend with more "civilized" superstitions. The effort to whitewash the history of resistance may be the most egregious act of imperialism, as it seeks to demean the soul of a people. And the uncritical masses of the colonizing agent eat it up, and believe they're doing god's work. Again and again and again, and refuse to see the truth. A pitiful shame. Excellent book, very informative and enlightening.

Same story again and again

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very well done, enjoyed the book, narrator was well versed and pronunciations are done well, please maintain native people narrators, mahalo

maika’i no

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A great account of a black spot on U,S history. The author does a grest job of naration. All the reading in Hawaian was nerve racking at first, but I grew to appreciate it and the reason the author gave for using his native tounge were correct. He told the story of the cultural genacide that the colonizers conducted on the Hawaiian people.

Great scholarship

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This book was fascinating and heartbreaking too. So informative and I learned a lot. I appreciated the narrator using authentic Hawaiian language. Highly recommend!

Excellent title

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Wow, what a truly moving book! This is definitely a must read for anyone from Hawaii or planning on visiting Hawaii. Noenoe has brought to light a side of Hawaiian History that is not widely known. I highly recommend the audio book version because the narrator does an excellent job speaking in both Hawaiian and English.

An Eye Opening History Told Through the Lens of a Hawaiian

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The subject is absolutely fascinating and I have not encountered any other book on it. However, in his attempt to assure the reader of his accuracy, the author spends a great deal of effort explaining the many meanings a word in Hawaiian might have. I personally have difficulties with languages other than English. The pronunciation of names and Hawaiian words with which I am familiar was so different, it took several sentences for me to understand about whom the person was talking.

Best if you understand the Hawaiian language

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