Modern Hawaiian History

March 10, 2016

Overall, what was Nahi'ena'ena's experience?

A: Overall, her experience was a very saddening one because she experienced her mother's death and became very depressed, and she was denied the marriage of her and her brother, and she gave birth to a child that only lived for 2 hours. 

1. What were the conflicts Nahi'ena'ena experienced?

2. How did these conflicts affect her?

3. Can you think of some reasons why Nahi'ena'ena's experience with Christianity was so different from that of Ka'ahumanu and her own mother?

Answers

1. She wasn't able to marry her brother becasue that awas considered wrong, adn she didn't want to wear the pa'u because it only covered her waist down, and she wasn't comfortable with showing her upper half.

2. She became very confused and depressed about herself.

3. Probably because she didn't agree with what the Christianity rules were and she rebelled, causing her to have a bad relationship with them.

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1. From reading this very brief account of his life, do you think that David Kalakaua experienced cultural conflict? In what ways? Be specific.

2. Was the conflict he experienced the same as or different from that of Nahi'ena'ena? How was it the same? How was it different?

3. Why do you suppose that King Kalakaua signed legislation that allowed Hawaiians to buy liquor?

Answers

1. Yes, Kalakaua did encounter cultural conflict because he angered the "haoles" or whte people's busiiness community because of the corruption of two of his closest associates, and got accused of accepting money for 2 opium licenses when you could only have one license per year.

2. No, what Kalakaua went through is nothing like what Nahi'ena'ena went through because Kalakaua just kept getting accused of doing things that weren't acceptable, as opposed to Nahi'ena'ena wanting to do certain things, presenting them, and getting rejected from them because they were considered inappropriate.

3. Maybe because even though he realized that alcohol was a bad thing, he himself enjoyed it as well. So, he made the alcohol legal so that he could drink it legally, along with a whole bunch of other people.

March 09, 2016

Missionary Beliefs

• Belief in one God, a Supreme Being

• Human beings born in sin

  • If they represented accepted Jesus, souls would be saved and they would go to heaven

• Had "Ten Commandments"

• One day a week, it would be kept for worshipping 

• Christianity and "civilization" were the same thing

  • Believed in organization 

• Ideas accepted more easily by the Hawaiians 

Hawaiian Beliefs

• Believed in more than one god

  • 4 main gods with subdivisions

• Families had household gods

• Hawaiians considered themselves part of natural world

Q: What traditional beliefs are still practiced today?

A: One traditional belief that people practice today is placing ti leaves that are crossed at the beginning of hikes to indicate that you need to treat the hike with both care and respect.

March 08, 2016

1. What are some differences between traditional Hawaiian education and Western schooling?

2. Why do you think the missionaries wanted Hawaiians to be able to read and write the Hawaiian language?

3. What are three significant differences between nineteenth-century schooling discussed here and your own school experience?

Answers

1. The Hawaiians mostly learned by memorizing and imitating, and the type of eduation that the child recieved was based upon your birth status, and most knowledge was passed on to other people by talking because they had no writing tools or anything of that similarity. The Westerners, however, taught the Ali'i, tried to convert the Hawaiians to the Christian faith and teach them about the westerners' knowledge, and they had more resources than the Hawaiians did; they mostly had books and were able to build schoolhouses for students to learn in, rather that being outside.

2. The Missonaries probably predicted that they would eventually take over the Hawaiian Islands, and that they would need to learn how to read and write Hawaiian in preparation for the English that was soon going to be handed over to all the people in the community.

3. We have the internet now to look up anything and everything, as opposed to getting it from an adult. In high school, (and pretty much every single school) are most definitely split into their grade, and we have an abundance of school supplies to help us with our learning

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1. What rights and privaleges do women now have that they did not have under coverture laws?

2. May women today do everything that men do?

3. Must a woman take her husband's name when she marries?

4. What roles do women have in families now? What roles do men have in families? How are their roles like or unline their roles in the past?

Answers

1. Women can now eat with men, women are able to hold their own child and ot have them taken away for a certain amount of time to be spent with the father, and both women and men can enter any heiau (with respect of course...) whereas before, only the men could enter and women were forbidden. 

2. Technically, yes. However, there are certain things today that men would find odd if a woman wereever to do it (ex: Football)

3. Back then, yes because everything that the woman had, now belonged to the husband now. Today, the woman can choose whether or not she wants to take her husband's name or if she wants it hyphenated, or even just her maiden name. 

4. Women have the same role as men today; they both work at a job and make money. Back then, only the men in the family would work, and the wife would stay home, cook, and look after the kids. The reason for this is because women were seen as "uncapable" of doing certain things that men did. (Like it was so hard...)

March 08, 2016

I rememeber that day

When the foreigners came

Strange occurence 

And at that moment

I knew things were going to change

Education 

Our children

Our legacy

Our future

Some may not agree 

But if you think about it

It doesn't seem too bad

Because what they don't realize

Is that whatever they brought

Will be the future of Hawaii

And we've become really accustomed to the foreigners' ways

Only to realize

This isn't even the end of change

But just the beginning

March 08, 2016

• Define KAPU

  • Rules forbidding certain acts.

1. In what ways would keeping the kapu system have benefited Liholiho? In what ways would aboloshing it have benefited him?

2. Why do you suppose Ka'ahumanu wanted the kapu system abolished? What advantages did she stand to gain, if any? What advantages did she stand to lose?

Answers

1. Keeping the Kapu system would've benefited Lihiliho becauue he could've created laws agains himself (ex/ no one could hurt him, etc.) Abolishing it also benefited him because without the kapu, then he could basically do whatever he wants to.

2. Ka'ahumanu probably wanted the kapu system because she was probably fed up with all the rules and restrictions dealing with Hawaiian life. The main advantage that she gained was that men and women could eat together. whtshe lost from it was the mana, or divine power.

What was the purpose behind the kapu system? And do we have something similar to the kapu system today?

- The purpose of the kapu system was to maintain the favor of the gods, prevented spiritual defilement, and maintained social order. Though we don't have a kapu system today, there are still things in Hawaii that are considered "kapu".

List and describe the different classes in Hawaiian society.

• Ali'i Nui- Man who ruled over all other chiefs

• Kalaimoku- Counselor of Ali'i, told him how land should be spread

• Konohiki- Head person of land division

• Kahuna Nui- Priests, advised the Ali'i

• Maka'ainana- Common people

• Kauwa- Outcasts, slaves