The Queen and I: A Story of Dispossessions and Reconnections in Hawai'iIn this exposé Sydney L. Iaukea ties personal memories to newly procured political information about Hawai`i’s crucial Territorial era. Spurred by questions surrounding intergenerational property disputes in her immediate family, she delves into Hawai`i’s historical archives. There she discovers the central role played by her great-great-grandfather in the politics of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hawai`i—in particular, Curtis P. Iaukea’s trusted position with the Hawaiian Kingdom’s last ruling monarch, Queen Lili`uokalani. As Iaukea charts her ancestor’s efforts to defend a culture under siege, she reveals astonishing legal and legislative maneuvers that show us how capitalism reshaped cultural relationships. She finds resonant parallels and connections between her own upbringing in Maui’s housing projects, her family’s penchant for hiding property, and the Hawaiian peoples’ loss of their country and lands. |
Contents
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Chatty Maps and Memory | 14 |
The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 1921 and Defining Nativeness | 40 |
Queen Liliuokalanis Trust Deed and the Crown Lands | 61 |
Charging Queen Liliuokalani with Insanity and Holding the Trust Intact | 87 |
Kāhoaka Condemnation the Lele of Hamohamo Projects of Reclamation and Heartbreak | 115 |
Epilogue | 143 |
APPENDIX A List of Commissions and Appointments Received by Colonel Curtis P Iaukea | 147 |
APPENDIX B Queen Liliuokalanis Deed of Trust | 151 |
APPENDIX C Queen Liliuokalanis Petition to US President William H Taft | 163 |
NOTES | 171 |
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