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...ce names for towns, mountains, bays, harbors, and other features; geographical descriptions of the state and the main islands; and an introduction to Hawaiian place names. This is followed by four sections on the physical, biotic, cultural, and social aspects of the Hawai'i environment. Geology, climate, the ocean, water, soils, and astronomy are among the topics discus...

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...ts -- xi -- Introduction -- xiii -- Kaua'i and Ni'ihau -- 3 -- O'ahu -- 7 -- Moloka'i and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resources -- 47 -- Climate -- 49 -- Hawai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- ...

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...The first edition of The Ahupuaa, published in 1979, was planned and developed by the Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian Studies Institute. It was the first publication undertaken by the institute, which was created in 1978 to consolidate the efforts of Hawaiian studies specialists from several Kamehameha programs. Kamehameha staff me...

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...In the time of umi, son of the great chief Liloa, the Hawaiian islands were divided into political regions. The four mokupuni (larger islands) of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii were divided into moku (districts). The smaller islands of Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe became moku of ...

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...When Polynesian people came to Hawaii, hundreds of years ago, they brought legends. We know this because the same stories and similar hero names are found in other Polynesian groups. Other legends grew about historical events in our islands, about real p...

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...Preface.Vii -- Acknowledgments.Viii -- PikoiRat Shooting.3 -- Enemies Of The Chief.7 -- Pikoi Sees Hawaii.19 -- PeleHow Hawaii Was Made Safe.29 -- How Hawaii Was Divided.42 -- Holua Sledding.45 -- The Puna Chief Who Boasted.49 -- The Girl Who Gave Breadfruit.51 -- Kalapana.56 -- The Pounded Water Of Kekela.61 -- Other Lege...

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...In this second series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore, with the exception of a few transpositions, as mentioned in the preceding volume, the order of the author has been observed in the main by grouping together, first, the more important legends and tradition...

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...Wins—He Hides His Fish in the King's Canoe—They Plan Another Race to Take Place in Kau, Life to be the Forfeit -- 124 -- Kuapakaa Chants the Winds of Hawaii—The King, Angered, Continues on—Winds of Kauai, Niihau and Kaula; Of Maui, Molokai, Halawa—Chants the Names of His Master, Uncle and Men—Pakaa Orders the Winds of Laamaomao Released -- 92 -- The Canoe Race in Kau—Kuapa...

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...R. S. Kuykendall spent four decades of his life writing the history of Hawaii. He came to the Islands in 1922 as executive secretary of the newly formed Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii. The Commission planned, among other projects, to publish a large-scale history: a general n...

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...This volume is one of the fruits of a project undertaken more than a dozen years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and carried on since 1932 by the University of Hawaii. The project called for the preparation of a comprehensive general history of Hawaii based upon a thorough study of original sources. The first phase of the under...

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...Preface. xi -- List of Abbreviations. xiii -- Introduction: A Glimpse of Ancient Hawaii. 1 -- Coming of the Foreigners. 12 -- Kamehameha and the Founding of the Kingdom. 29 -- 1819. 61 -- Kamehameha II. 71 -- Early Commercial Development. 82 -- New Religion and New Learning. 100 -- The Early Years of the ...

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...This book is the second of three volumes designed to provide a general history of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom. The first volume was published some years ago under the title, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854: Foundation and Transformation. The third volume, which explores the years 1874-1893, deals with the reigns of K...

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...The first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of Califo...

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...9 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. 66 -- The Queen's Hospital. 69 -- Leprosy. 72 -- Immigration. 75 -- The Royal Family. 78 -- Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church. 84 -- Other Religious Developments. 99...

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...er our heads. I’m not sure what they are called here, but I’ll go with my Hawaiian vocabulary until I get my linguistic sea legs. —―Gentlemen, ... ...er.‖ --―I was there many years ago. Balmy Bangalore, reminded me of Hawaii without the surf. Of course it is impossible to find surf in the hi...

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...re my dearest friends, Con . . .Ray . . .and Lee. You can‘t tell from his Hawaiian shirt but Ray is a priest. He‘s in disguise, but he thinks after h... ...ool. Playing with my daughter when she was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there we... ...er sixty years. Not to worry, China can lend it to us. Maybe they‘ll take Hawaii and Alaska in trade. Maybe Congress will have to stop spending the ... ...of the whole Christmas dinner, like looking at a flashlight rather than a Hawaiian sunset, like reading ‗Dick and Jane‘ rather than Hamlet. I feel so...

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...At the request of Stephanie Nagata, on behalf of the University of Hawaii-Office of Mauna Kea Management, Kumu Pono Associates LLC undertook research, compiled a detailed collection of archival-historical records, and conducted oral history interviews with kupuna and elder kamaaina, pertaini...

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... members of said Board shall be an engineer, both registered to practice in and who have been actively engaged in the practice of their profession in Hawaii for at least five years prior to their appointment. The members of the Board shall serve without pay, but they shall be allowed such reasonable expenses as are authorized by the Board and incurred in the immediate dis...

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...mercialized Crafts of Thailand. Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages. Univ. of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. Cohen, Paul T. 1984. Are the Spirit Cults of Nort... ...iety. (Translated by Peter and Stephanie Hawkes). The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ivanova, E. V. 1966. Hozjajstvo i materialnaja kul’tura ... ...d Reproduction in a Northeastern Thai Village. Ph.D thesis, University of Hawaii. — 1998. Buddhism and Thai World View. Amara Pongsapich (ed.), Trad... ...n : A Study of the Phuan in Central Thailand. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hawaii. — 1998. Thai Peasant World View. Amara Pongsapich (ed.), Tradition... ...993. Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. Watson, Keith 1980. Educational Development in Th...

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...The island of hawaii dominated the culture of the northernmost of the polynesian groups, even before the high chief kamehameha conquered the other islands and formed a united kingdom in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This trul...

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...s. 35 -- Caterpillar. 37 -- Bitter Gourd. 38 -- Psychic Aspect Of Community Relationship. 39 -- Iv. The Kinship System. 40 -- Table I. Kinship Terms, Hawaiian And Maori. 42 -- Relationship. 42 -- Grandparents And Grandchildren. 44 -- Blood Tie. 48 -- Husband And Wife. 51 -- Paternity. 52 -- Adoptive Platonic Marital Relationship. 54 -- Plural Mating. 56 -- Critique Of Morg...

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...g with the traditional history of the great chief ‘Umi and ending with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854, this volume covers the rediscovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook, the consolidation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by Kamehameha I, the coming of the missionaries and the changes affecting the kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. Origina...

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...d December 16, 1920, was entitled “A Tale of Kekuhaupi‘o, the Famous Warrior of the Era of Kamehameha the Great (Written for the readers of Ka Hoku o Hawaii). ” The serial initially focuses on the story of Kekuhaupi‘o, an exceptionally strong and skillful Hawaiian warrior from Ke‘ei, South Kona. As with most noted warriors, he was a master in the ways of battle strategy ...

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...Justice. 457 -- Kamehameha Meets Captain Barber. 459 -- Captain Barber’s Ship Goes Aground. 462 -- The Fragrant Wood of Hawai‘i Nei. 464 -- The First Hawaiian Flag. 466 -- The German Named Scheffer Arrives. 469 -- The Russian Fort and Captain Kotzebue. 472 -- Kotzebue Surveys Honolulu Harbor. 474 -- Kamehameha Becomes Ill. 477 -- Another Kahuna Called to Treat Kamehameha. ...

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...g with the traditional history of the great chief ‘Umi and ending with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854, this volume covers the rediscovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook, the consolidation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by Kamehameha I, the coming of the missionaries and the changes affecting the kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. Origina...

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...d December 16, 1920, was entitled “A Tale of Kekuhaupi‘o, the Famous Warrior of the Era of Kamehameha the Great (Written for the readers of Ka Hoku o Hawaii).” The serial initially focuses on the story of Kekuhaupi‘o, an exceptionally strong and skillful Hawaiian warrior from Ke‘ei, South Kona. As with most noted warriors, he was a master in the ways of battle strategy and...

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...Justice. 457 -- Kamehameha Meets Captain Barber. 459 -- Captain Barber’s Ship Goes Aground. 462 -- The Fragrant Wood of Hawai‘i Nei. 464 -- The First Hawaiian Flag. 466 -- The German Named Scheffer Arrives. 469 -- The Russian Fort and Captain Kotzebue. 472 -- Kotzebue Surveys Honolulu Harbor. 474Kamehameha Becomes Ill. 477 -- Another Kahuna Called to Treat Kamehameha. 479 ...

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...This third series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostly the result of S. N. Haleole...

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... -- Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies -- 2 -- Various Heathen Prayers -- 46 -- Concerning the Construction of the Heiau -- 52 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the Order of Sorcery -- 56 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time Called Hoomanamana -- 66 -- Explanatory Remarks—History of the Sorcery Priesthood—Divisions and Ordinances—Sacrifice Se...