Articles

Making ‘Aha: Independent Hawaiian Pasts, Presents & Futures

2018

Co-authored with Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada. We use Hawaiian methods of knowledge production to weave together instances of Kanaka Maoli political resistance to U.S. imperialism and settler colonialism across generations. This essay situates 21st century testimonies within a longer genealogy of Kanaka assertions of ea (sovereignty, life, breath) against the prolonged U.S. military occupation that began in 1898.