woman told how she was gang raped by six guards after one of them kicked her in the face and shattered her teeth. Another said she and three other women were raped by ten security personnel, one of whom forced her to swallow a used condom that he had used while raping two other victims.
This is just CRAZY!!!
as a Kanaka Maoli archaeologist, my kuleana is to ensure that the practice of archaeology in hawai‘i is respectful, pro-fessional, and beneficial to the descendants whose past we seek to under-stand.
I really like how she is an archaeologist that is tied into the work he is doing as he may interpreted the studies in a different perspective.
The population of Kanaka Maoli declined to horrifically low levels, just shy of 40,000 people in 1896, due to contact with foreigners and the alien diseases they brought to the islands
I find this interesting because this is not the first case of indigenous people becoming ill due to contact with foreigners in the pacific from our readings. at this point and time , did these foreigners know they were sick or were they oblivious just like the other book lindstrom I believe.
Moreover, many people told me that they are more “ashamed” to buy things on credit than to ask for gifts. This ability to display without hiding, to buy without immediately having to give, may be one reason why people start stores in the first place.
one way of taking advantage of the customs that are placed on this island. create your own store.
t is public signs of possession—that is, carrying food in front of others—that create the subjective feeling of shame (āliklik). One way to be a good person and avoid this shame is to give. The other way is to hide the signs themselves.
this is interesting because we know the people customs as for sharing if food is in plain sight, so then people rather go out of their ways to conceal their belongings to maintain what belongs to them. if that's the case on how most people live, then why not make a rule where what's yours is yours and what mine is mine? seems strange to me
but I could not figure out how to buy them without children seeing me and de-manding their share.
I just find it interesting to how some people feel obligated a share of something that is not theirs. This reminds me of how the Orokaiva people felt towards sharing. if one person has something then it needs to be displaced evenly within the community.
Missionaries and their converts could call up even bigger guns to protect their backs. British and French naval frigates patrolled the archipelago with increased frequency to show the ag, demonstrate sporadic authority, and ran-domly punish. Three men-of-war bombarded Tannese villages in , , and . HMSCuraçoa’s assault on Port Resolution in August was the most infamous of these attacks.
This is one way the Missionaries used to gain control and authority by bombarding the Tannese villages.
Local disputes once pursued with clubs, spears, bows and arrows, and throwing stones became deadlier
This was the beginning of a war within Tanna now that locals acquired weaponry such as guns and ammunition. A kinsman Kwaniamuk would end up killing Soarum's brother Nousi to get their hands on some tobacco.
increasing numbers of men and women were abandoning the disease-infested island. They jumped onto overseas labor-recruiting ships. The rst of these arrived in to embark indentured Islanders for newly established plantations and other enterprises in colonial Queensland, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and elsewhere in the New Hebrides. More than four thousand men and women le for Queensland alone between and . Many others le for work elsewhere abroad, and this from an island population base already much depleted.
while the island was infested with diseases, the many who survived fled to newer establishments such as Queensland for a better opportunity, just like in "Coral and Concrete"
Overseas vessels by then were common visitors. Every new ship carried alien microbes, and some of these escaped ashore to infect village aer village where people lacked immunity to European scourges. People put two and two together. They connected the newly arrived missionaries with intensifying waves of illness and death sweeping their villages
Another reason why western contact wasn't good for the indigenous people. The new visitors brought diseases which would later on spread throughout the villages.
A stream of Presbyterian volunteers from Scotland, Nova Scotia, and New Zealand followed the Geddies to the islands, moving into mission outposts on Aneityum, Tanna, and Erro-mango Islands rst established in the s by the London Missionary Soci-ety’s Polynesian teachers, or by Geddie’s own Aneityum converts. New Hebri-des mission reinforcements swelled from to
Soon after John Geddie's settlement, A whole bunch Presbyterian volunteers soon rushed the islands and pushed there religions.
Marshallese were typically separated from Koreans and other laborers in wartime construction battalions, but even earlier, during the civilian administration, there was a general policy of segregation in matters of labor and schooling
It's crazy to see that even during wartimes there was a policy of segregation between ethnicities.
The atomic bomb tests during the Cold War at Bikini and Enewetak, followed by the mis-sile testing at Kwajalein, the mobilization of the military in connec-tion with the Korean War and Vietnam War, and even the present-day global “wars on terror” would likely all be included in this Marshallese idea of their islands and oceans being used as a “perpetual battlefield.” But many Marshallese leaders describe the sacrifice of their land in terms of the global security it provides.
I always knew about the nuclear and missile tests that took place in the pacific but I've never seen the perspective of the Marshallese people. I find it fascinating that as these people watched their nearby lands get bombed by missiles. The Marshallese took it in as a positive way as these test could now bring security to not just themselves but also to the entire world.
But there’s always a war going on somewhere in this world, and you or I might have to go and fight someday. And that’s why I work here, so that we don’t have a big war, so that we’re all safe.”
I find this to be interesting that even if everyone was at peace, most countries will always have their forces prepared for the worst. Another thing I thought about through this quote, is the fact that when war comes it's always the general population having to face the consequences of putting their life at risk instead of the hierarchy of our government.
The third wave of the Tonga-Hawai‘i migration began one to two genera-tions ago—in the 1940s and 1950s
Was the beginning of a mass migration of Tongans that took place in the late 50's
WRiTiNG AS A FORM OF WEAviNG
I find this paragraph to be interesting on how they compared weaving and writing. it showed how the mats were just like books and how it told stories/information, which was used for the gatherings of relatives.