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Aloha ʻĀina: The Trask Sisters

basic guide to the historical and cultural background the Hawaiian Renaissance and the Sovereignty Movement

Introduction

Haunani-Kay Trask (1949 - 2021) and Mililani Trask (1951 - ) are audacious, articulate, and intelligent mana wāhine Native Hawaiian activists for the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. They dedicate their life's work advocating for the improvement of the Hawaiian people.

Books

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Newspapers

Databases

  A Dream Realized at Mānoa Campus by Manu Boyd

Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 10, 1 October 1997

Article discusses the opening of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at UH Mānoa with Haunani Kay Trask as its director.

 

  Eye of the Storm by Sterling Kini Wong

Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 21, Number 12, 1 December 2004

Haunani Kay Trask discusses homelessness in Hawaiʻi.

 

  Native Hawaiian Rights Conference Theme is Hawaiian Sovereignty - "The Ultimate Unity"? by Deborah Lee Ward

Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 9, 1 September 1988

Article discusses the issue of Hawaiian sovereignty.

 

  The Birth of the Modern Hawaiian Movement:  Kalama Valley, Oʻahu by Haunani Kay Trask

  Hawaiian Historical Society, Hawaiian Journal of History, volume 21, 1987

Created Spring 2022

Various resources compiled by Haylee Von Oelhoffen  - Class of 2022

Edited by Kumu Laʻakea Cumberlander & Kumu Kuuleilani Reyes