Surveying the Mahele EarlyEd Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

the dominance of American culture in Hawai‘i forces Native Hawaiians to think carefully about how they can retain a cultural identity

Hina is often associated with the moon and its cycles

as thin as a morning glory vine

Surveying the Mahele EarlyEd Kris KristoffersonMany themes of modern Hawaiian history have their antecedents in a single historic episodethe mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli, or Kamehameha III, abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure in favor of the Western concept of private owner ship of property, an event second only to the arrival of the Europeans in its impact on Hawaii. In the matter of a few years, Hawaii changed from a society in which the alii aimoku, or king, served as steward of the