Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania (Studies in North American Indian History)

Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries, diplomats, and travelers, shedding valuable light on the rich but understudied accounts of Hawaiians outside of Hawaiʻi. Native Hawaiian views of other islanders typically corresponded with their particular views and experiences of the Native Hawaiian past. The more positive their outlook, the more likely they were to seek cross-cultural connections. This is an important intervention in the growing field of Pacific and Oceanic history and the study of native peoples of the Americas, where books on indigenous Hawaiians are few and far between. Cook returns the study of Hawai'i to a central place in the history of cultural change in the Pacific. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Table of contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Footnotes Introduction 1 Ke Ao A Me Ka Pō Ke Ao, Ka Pō, and the Motivations for Mission Work Equality and Mission Work The Mission Field Hana Le'ale'a Natives, Missionaries, and Empires Tabiteauea: Christ and Tioba 2 Among the Wild Dogs Silence and Purge Aloha, Madness, and Witchcraft in the Mission Field Moekolohe: Sex and the Married Missionary 3 A Kindred People Kalakaua and the Polynesian Confederacy Ka Na'auao Hawai'i: Staffing the Legation Together in One Pahu: Developing the Treaty A Kindred People: Kinship Appeals The Uses of Aloha and 'Ohana “Very Few Live with Na'auao Like Ours”: Hawaiian Exceptionalism Spreading the Hawaiian Na'auao 4 The Hawaiian Model Spreading the Fa'a Hawai'i Nation Building and Mō'i Building Securing the Mō'i Bush, Poor, and the Nature of the Confederacy A Poor Sketch Aloha among Confederates, Diplomacy within the 'Ohana/'Aiga How the Kaimiloa Beat the Adler Things Fall Apart 5 “There Is Nothing That Separates Us” Prologue: Stephen Pupuhi John Tamatoa Baker: Kanaka Capitalist, Politician, and Traveler Tahiti: Networks and Connections Aloha 'Aina: Land Claims “There Is No Little Thing One Fails to Recognize”: Traces of an Oceanic Past I ka 'ōlelo Nō ke Ola: In the Language Is Life An Open Bowl and an Open Gourd The Haka Meets the Hula at Rotorua 6 Maka'āinana or Servants of the Dollar? The Gospel of the Oceanic Yeoman Land and Power under Empire Economic Diversity and Independence Wealth and Values Poro'i’s Critique: Akenui and Lawa Lawa and the Critique of Empire Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Special Collections and Archives Newspapers, Periodicals, and Annuals Published Primary Sources Secondary Index Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries, diplomats, and travelers, shedding valuable light on the rich but understudied accounts of Hawaiians outside of Hawaï. Native Hawaiian views of other islanders typically corresponded with their particular views and experiences of the Native Hawaiian past. The more positive their outlook, the more likely they were to seek cross-cultural connections. This is an important intervention in the growing field of Pacific and Oceanic history and the study of native peoples of the Americas, where books on indigenous Hawaiians are few and far between. Cook returns the study of Hawaï to a central place in the history of cultural change in the Pacific Most histories of interactions between different peoples/nations in Oceania tend to focus on relationships between Islanders and empires. This important new study instead unpacks the history of the connections between different groups of Pacific Islanders, focusing on Hawai'i both before and after annexation by the United States.