History Of The Palauan Island

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

8000- 500 BC was known as the “Archaic period.” During this period, mound building was a very common custom. Many of the mounds were built to elevate the village’s central ritual sites. The “Woodland period” (500 BC- AD 800)

The people of Hawaii and other Pacific Island Nation groups have experienced great injustice from their colonial powers and the acts of imperialism. Lands were seized, cultural practices banned, language lost, and people were even forced to move away from their homes for the purpose of bomb testing. The United States and other countries abroad sent out representatives to do their work for them; in return their future actions would be justified in describing the Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders as savages that need to have wider powers enforced upon them; thus resulting in a tangled web of political mythologies.

One famous Polynesian tradition is a celebration dinner to mark an important event. This typically features a feast of pig cooked in a pit oven, then entertainment including local dancing, drumming and fire-walking. In Hawaii these celebrations are well-known as ‘luaus’, in Fiji they are ‘lovos’, and for Maoris they are called ‘hangi’.

The state of Hawaii, also known collectively as the Hawaiian Islands, has a long history regarding its development. From migration, to the development of producing goods as a way of bartering, to an eventual governed society, the modernization of Hawaii has an illustrious history. The people who impacted this and were part of creating a globalized look at Hawaii played a part into modernization the state. This paper will illustrate the modernization of this land and its westernization throughout the years.

Mark Twain once described the Hawaiian Islands as “The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean”. Hawaii is the most unique of the states of America. To further understand the geography of Hawaii, one must understand how Hawaii was formed, how Hawaii was populated, and understand what Hawaii came to be today.

There was once a Native American clan that widely cohabitated in the Southwestern part of America. This clan would soon come to be recognized as the Anasazi or, the “Ancient One’s”, by researchers who studied in depth their culture and geographical movements. Artifacts and other findings have expressed to archaeologists that their lifestyle was not only very well established but also efficient. They had adapted methods of hunting and gathering, they were knowledgeable farmers who had actually developed their own method of an irrigation system to water their crops (maize, squash, and a variety of beans), and they were skilled builders. Their homes were known to be made of structured stone, often times organized in a way that is known today as cliff dwellings. In addition to these

War era in Hawaii was a historical time that Hawaii will never forget. Hawaii being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, made every country wanted to own Hawaii as it would be a great place to land military and naval bases. Military bases started as early as 1898 but real use of the military was not used until the attack on Pearl Harbor. By 1939 Pearl Harbor became the largest base in the Hawaiian Islands, which hosted “one battleship dry-dock, two above ground oil tank farms, a hospital, Navy and Army airfields, a submarine base, and many other facilities” (Chen, par. 2). United States was the first to land naval bases, air corps and military first to be prepared of an attack from the Philippines, but it was planned wrong when Japan did

2). Their mode of production was very similar to the feudal systems of earlier European societies. The Hawaiian people had a strictly defined class system in place which imposed the social relations of production. On the top were the high and lesser chiefs, the Ali’i. Followed by the Kahuna, who were separated into many different categories. Two examples are Kahuna pule were the priests running the temples and kahuna lapa’au the medical priests, focusing in the application of herbal medicine (Kirch 2010: pg.57). The Maka’ainana were the common people, the farmers, fisherman, and simple craftsman. They utilized the means of production owned by the Ali’i to produce for themselves, their families and to also support the Ali’i and Kahuna (Kirch 2010: pg. 24). This class structure was reinforced through state cult rituals carried out by the kahuna and the chiefly class (Kirch 2010: pg.

The people of Hawai’i have enjoyed a longtime tradition of producing distinctive and beautiful music. In fact, this is often one of the major attractions when travelers visit Oahu or any of the Hawai’ian Islands. The music of this magnificent land has been shaped by various cultures and ethnic groups, from Polynesians to Europeans. No matter what kind of music you might listen to when you visit, you can be sure that it will be unique and wonderful to hear.

Before Britain arrived the island of Antigua was filled with natives. For example,“Later, A.D. 1200-1300, two Amerindian societies with opposing lifestyles coexisted; the peaceful and pottery-making Arawaks, and the fierce and warlike Caribs. Arawaks came here for clay, a resource in short supply elsewhere

The place that I chose for the places project was Kauai, Hawaii. I chose Kauai because I have been there and the culture seemed very interesting. The first European that was to discover Kauai was Captain James Cook in 1791 and then was later created a US territory not until the year of 1898. Kauai very little commemorates to the events that happened in the late 1800s, mainly because all of Hawaii wasn’t apart of the United States and all of the negative effects to the Hawaiian culture and how it was overthrown by the United States. The story about Kauai that is not known to many people is how the United States got closer and closer to the Hawaiian without them even knowing it. As Christian settlers kept moving to Hawaii it ended up having a lot of Hawaiians converting over to Christianity including Kamehameha III, who was the first Christian King to rule all of Hawaii. The House of Kamehameha ended with the death of King Kamehameha V, who had no heir. An election was held, with popular votes favoring Lunalilo, who also died without naming an heir. This was a pivotal point in the history of Hawaii as Lunalilo's death led to the controversial 1874 election that incited riots. In an attempt to keep peace, Britain and the United States sent troops to Hawaii. The situation ended with the election of Kalakaua, who had lost the

They would also make stone sculptures they would carve into the stone and make different shapes in it. It would include different symbols and their form of language. It would tell stories, or show ownership to the land. They would also put different animals on the stones too.

The ecosystems supporting the Hawai’ian island’s have cradled me since I first laid eyes on this world, and nurtured me from the time I first began treading over its rugged surface. It wasn’t until my first semester at West Hawai’i Community College while taking a history class under Dr. Stevens, that I discovered our own local ecosystems are in danger of habitat loss. I had always heard about deforestation and the anthropogenic destruction of our environment, but never did I imagine such a beautiful and secluded place like Hawai’i, silently submitting to our neglect. Dr. Steven played a tremendous role in my commitment to restoring Hawai’i’s native ecosystems by orchestrating many restoration events, bringing out the community, and sparking an inner responsibility within me to preserve Hawai’i’s natural beauty.

This plant represented the God Kane which Hawaiians believe to be the creator life. The Hawaiians believed that Taro had helped them stay alive, because of it’s use as the common staple of their diet. Taro is considered a purple potato, in the Araceae family, that was frequently made into poi. (Hawaiian name for mashed potato.) Its niche is as a