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Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787–1898
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2006
- Book Title
- Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwes...
- ISBN
- 9780824829438
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824829433
ISBN-13
9780824829438
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50482885
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Leaving Paradise : Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898
Publication Year
2006
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, North America, United States / General, Native American, Oceania
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-037659
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Leaving Paradise rescues a large and important Pacific Northwest community from relative obscurity. . . . The section entitled 'Hawaiians and Other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest' [is] particularly noteworthy. This appendix takes up approximately half the volume, and consists of detailed entries of all the people that the authors were able to track. This section is a remarkable sharing of the authors' database of the region, and though not primary source data, it is very close., Barman and Watson mined all extant sources to follow Hawaiian migration and subsequent settlement in the Pacific Northwest, including an extensive and exhaustive listing of individual arrivals, employment history, residence, and marriage and family patterns. The authors conclude that, despite racial discrimination in Canada and the United States, this is an immigrant success story, proof of 'what might have been in the Hawaiian Islands themselves.', Barman's and Watson's extensive research in fur trade and missionary records is truly impressive and is especially evident in the eight hundred or so biographical entries that compile the second half of the book. . . . [T]he fascinating sections on how many Hawaiians married indigenous men and women and melted into Northwest Native communities demonstrates the fluidity of ethno-racial categories and identities in this period and signals an important issue in need of further exploration.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
979.50049/942
Synopsis
Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. Kanakas (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of fields--Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies--will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work., Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of fields--Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies--will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work.
LC Classification Number
F855.2.H3B37 2006.
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