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Islands in Captivity
The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians
Ward Churchill (Editor) and Sharon H. Venne (Editor); Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa (Hawaiian language editor)
Pages: 800ISBN: 0-89608-738-7
Format: cloth only
Release Date: 2005-03-01
One hundred years after American marines overthrew the elected Native Hawaiian government in support of white American sugar-planters, Native Hawaiians asserted their self-determination during marches, debates, ceremonies, and ten days of testimony before an international panel of legal and human rights experts. Of the nine distinguished judges, Sharon H. Venne and Ward Churchill agreed to serve as editors for the 20,000 pages of testimony presented during those August 1993 hearings.
Organized into sections of oral testimony, essays, charges, and findings, this 800-page anthology presents the most extensive, diverse, and accessible argument for Native Hawaiian sovereignty.
Table of Contents
Foreword Pax Americana:Hawai’i, 1848 by Haunani-Kay Trask
Preface The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement by Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa
Glossary of Hawaiian Terms
Chronology The Road to Colonization: Milestones of Hawai‘i’s Interaction with
the West
Volume I
Introduction Contact, Conquest and Colonization: The United States and Hawai‘i by Ward Churchill and Sharon Venne
Essays
Before the Horror: The Population of Hawai’i on the Eve of Western Contact by David E. Stannard
The Kona Story: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Hawaiian Enhancements of the Environment by Marion Kelly
Constitutions of the Hawaiian Kingdom: A Brief History and Analysis by Ralph S. Kuykendall
U.S. Merchants, Missionaries and the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government: Historical Events, 1820–1893 by Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa
In Point of Law: The Land Rights of the Maka‘ainana by Maivan Clech Lam
Report to Secretary of State W.Q. Gresham on Recent Events Transpiring in the Hawaiian Islands: “The Blount Report,” July 17, 1893 by Senator James Blount
An Act of War: Special Message to Congress on Recent Events in the Kingdom of Hawaii, December 18, 1893 by President Grover Cleveland
Annexation and Beyond: Hawai...
Ward Churchill
Click here to view Ward Churchill's full Author PageWard Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. Churchill serves as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the institution. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.
Churchill’s many books include Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas. In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.
Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.