Early Polynesians

The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was the end of the Hawaiian monarchy and officially became part of the U.S. territory in the 1900s. The people who had overthrown the kingdom were originally called the Hawaiian League. They were a group of planters and businessmen who wanted to control the Hawaiian Kingdom they eventually changed their names to the Annexation Club then to the Committee of Public of Safety. After they had overthrown the Hawaiian monarchy, they created a provisional government to lead the Hawaiian kingdom. Afterwards, on January 12, 1898, Hawaii was officially annexed to the United States. The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom negatively impacted the Hawaiian Kingdom because it made Queen Liliuokalani give up her throne, took the independence of Hawaii, and changed the voting

There has a lot of controversy over the Polynesian cultural based movie, Moana. Some Americans think they were justified in making the movie while others do not. Disney is actually justified in making the movie Moana because it does not offend the Polynesian culture, but instead compliments it,they put a lot of work into the movie to make it as authentic as possible, and they involved Polynesian people in the project.

The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom led to Hawaii being annexed to the United States. The overthrow involved many people and groups who supported Hawaii being annexed, such as Lorrin Thurston and The Committee of Safety. However, there were also many people who were against it including, Robert Wilcox, James Blount, and Aloha Aina. The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom happened on January 17, 1893, where the provisional government took over and declared martial law in Hawaii. The Hawaiian Kingdom was officially annexed by the United States on August 12, 1898. The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was unjustified because King Kalakaua was forced to sign the Bayonet constitution of 1887 which took all the power away from him and the monarchy.

Waimea Valley located on the North Shore of O’ahu is deeply rooted in the Hawaiian cultures, history, flora and fauna, and more importantly one of a few places in Hawaii that’s untouched by time. In Ancient Hawaiian time, as early as 1092 A.D Waimea was chosen to be an award to the Kahuna Nui in perpetuity due to its lush valley’s and abundant resources. In Hawaiian culture Kahuna Nui were apparently experts in this type of field. Because of that Waimea was home to many in the Kahuna class, thus was now known as “The Valley of the Priests”

Hawaiian Culture went through many rapid changes between the arrival of the first Europeans in the late 1700s and the fall of the Kingdom in 1893. With the quick transition from many Chiefdoms to a European styled monarchy, then lastly being enveloped by a larger democracy, the Hawaiian people experienced significant and sudden changes in their social relations of production. First a description of pre-kingdom Hawaii to the unifying conquests of the first Hawaiian king, Kamehameha, will be looked at analyzing the social relations of production. This is followed by a similar analysis of The Kingdom of Hawaii and how the social relations of production where effected by the conquest. The kahuna’s position in the relations of production will be

Holism is a perspective in anthropology which is the philosophy that functional systems, like body or a country, cannot be understood by looking just at the individual pieces but rather by comparing each individual piece to another and the whole. This writing will discuss the Tiwi peoples of Australia, on how their traditional beliefs and economy influence the marriage system and politics, and vice versa. In addition, how the modern life of the Tiwi has undergone changes in relation to these matters will be provided as evidence to support the discussion.

In this essay I will examine two different cultural groups the Rapa Nui of Easter Island and the Tiwi islanders of Australia’s Northern Territory. My main focus will be on the impact colonisation had on these two different cultural groups. I will explain how these two different cultural civilisations were colonised at different times in history and how this effected each culture. I will describe the differences that occurred on each island and how each group handled the different situations they were put into. I will state how these two Indigenous groups responded to the colonizers, with a discussion of the impacts of colonisation on each of the islands human population the changes that resulted because of these impacts. I will explain the

The debate over who rediscovered American as has been long lasting. Be it Leif Erikson of Christopher Columbus the mindset remained that a European was responsible. However, as technology advances and Eurocentric mindsets start to fade, new theories have been established. Now there is a theory that Polynesians rediscovered America long before Columbus sail the ocean blue or Erickson discovered Newfoundland.

When the first Islanders were brought to Queensland in the eaThe south sea islanders had a major impact on the economic perspective in Australia, as they availed start the sugar plantation and cotton industry. Between 1863 and 1904, an estimated 55,000 to 62,500 Islanders were brought to Australia to labour on sugar-cane and cotton farms in Queensland and northern Incipient South Wales. These labourers were called ‘Kanakas’ and their recruitment often involved coerced abstraction from their homes. This practice of abducting labour was kenned as ‘blackbirding’ (‘blackbird’ meaning slave). Most were adolescent men and boys aged from 9 to 30 years. There were relatively few women and girls. rly 1860s, there were no laws or labour contracts to bulwark them from the most extreme kinds of exploitation by their employers. Many were abducted then paid nothing for their labour and were efficaciously treated as slaves. Later in the 1860s, a law was passed to regulate labour trafficking into Queensland and establish an indentured (contract) labour system. Under this system, Islanders signed three year contracts and were paid a meagre wage. Even under the indentured labour system Islanders perpetuated to be exploited.

Diamond deduced that Europeans were only able to conquer the world because they possessed the agents of conquest: steel, germs and guns. Diamond believes that geographical inequality is the sole cause for the discrepancy in development between western nations and the impoverished regions. The development of productive farming enabled certain civilizations to develop specialized skills such as writing, trade and politics. As a result, most of technology that developed from these endeavors spread evenly through Europe and Asia. Isolated regions and islands such as the Inca and Papua New Guinea were left unexposed to these advancements.

They would probably say that it was great and the crew was trying to move the sail boat it was hard work but we got thru it.The Polynesian voyaging canoe, named Hklea, had sailed more than 40,000 nautical miles (74,000 kilometers). It went to many countries.During the trip, it spread a message of mlama honua. That means "caring for Earth." Crew members navigated the old way. They looked for signs from nature. They looked to the stars and felt the wind. They watched the birds. These ways of navigating were used by the Polynesians who first sailed to

Duluc is a mini island in the French Polynesian region. Its main town, Bua, is named after the monstrous volcano on the island. Their native tongue is Dordor, with a greeting of ‘dorella’. The name Duluc means ‘big fly’ in their native tongue because of the plane crash that happened back in the 1970’s. The island is around 10km2 with a volcano on the very edge of the island. The natives believe that their Gods are angry when the volcano erupts. They have owned the land for thousands of years, before the French discovered it. In the 1970’s, the island was accidently discovered when a French air force plane flew through the ashes from the volcano and sent an SOS message.

In the late 18th century, Europeans introduced alcohol to Polynesians causing a plethora of social changes to occur within their communities. Edwin M. Lemert analyzes the different forms of relationships drinking has directly within three Polynesian societies, focusing on Tahiti and Bora Bora in the Society Islands, Aitutaki, Rarotonga and Atiu in the Cook Islands, along with Upolu and Savaii in Western Samoa. The published work Lemert lays out in Forms and Pathology of Drinking in Three Polynesian Societies expresses the possible relationships between different forms of drinking, cultural values, cost and social control, together with certain tentative conclusions in regard to addictive drinking through the annotation of these Polynesian societies. In order to properly describe different types of drinking, Lemert limits his discussion to what he refers to as dominate patterns

The settings in Herman Melville’s “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life” and “Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas”

The first migration of humans began about 40,000 years ago in an area called Near Oceania. Over the years these humans produced culture diversity as well as linguistic and genetic diversity. Around 4,000 years ago people from the Asian mainland, “Austronesian speakers”, brought Lapita culture to Western Oceania. Around 1200 BC, the Austronesians expanded to Eastern Oceania. This led to the islands in the Eastern Pacific to be colonized as well as New Zealand in 1250 AD. It is believed the Polynesians made their way to the Americas because sweet potatoes from South America and Coconut Palm Trees from Central America spread throughout the Pacific basin at this time.