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Last month, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association named UH Professor Noenoe K. Silva’s book, “Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism,” the most infl uential book in Native American and Indigenous Studies of this decade. “It [“Aloha Betrayed”] really emphasizes the agency of native peoples ... people use it all over the country because of that. I’ve been told that it’s listed on any course that’s dealing with native issues,” explained Mary L. Baker, a fi rst year Ph.D. student, and Indigenous Politics Research Assistant in the Political Science Department, on why NAISA may have picked Silva’s book for recognition. The prize was awarded based on a vote among the members of NAISA at their third annual meeting. NAISA is a professional organization that includes indigenous and non-indigenous scholars alike who work in the emerging fields of Native American and Indigenous studies. “There’s been people studying natives since the time of fi rst contact,” said Baker, “but what scholars like Noenoe are doing is taking it from an indigenous person’s perspective.” Baker hesitated to say that Hawaiians are taking a leading role in indigenous studies, but did say that “as a collective voice I think that Hawaiians are very much involved in it ... It is an exciting time because it’s emerging and we’re all participating and moving it forward.” In “Aloha Betrayed” Silva refutes the idea that Native Hawaiians did not resist the overthrow of the monarchy and annexation to the U.S. The book begins, “One of the most persistent and pernicious myths of Hawaiian history is that the Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) passively accepted the erosion of their culture and the loss of their nation.” As evidence against this myth, Silva points to the more than 75 Hawaiian language newspapers that were in circulation from 1834 to 1948, many of them political and resistant in nature. Professor Cristina Bacchilega said, “The way in which she makes Hawaiian-language sources the center of her analysis has made a difference to scholars, no matter what our disipline is.”
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Noenoe Silva’s book “Aloha Betrayed” won national acclaim as a study of the Hawaiian Resistance.
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