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Book SynopsisCombining personal memories with political information about Hawai'i's crucial Territorial era, this title discovers the central role played by the author's great-great-grandfather in the politics of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hawai'i.
Trade Review"A gripping and revelatory read, endowed with all the trappings of romance, melodrama and ghost story." Honolulu Weekly "The sensibility and lyricism shared by author and ancestor ... inform their mutual desire to illuminate history and right wrongs." Ka Wai Ola
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Family Secrets and Cartographic Silences: Chatty Maps and Memory 2. Land as the Vehicle: The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (1921) and Defining Nativeness 3. A Story of Political and Emotional Maneuverings: Queen Lili?uokalani's Trust Deed and the Crown Lands 4. "E paa oukou" (You hold it): Charging Queen Lili?uokalani with Insanity and "Holding" the Trust Intact 5. The Final Insults: Kahoaka, Condemnation, the Lele of Hamohamo, Projects of "Reclamation," and Heartbreak Epilogue Appendix A. List of Commissions and Appointments Received by Colonel Curtis P. Iaukea Appendix B. Queen Lili?uokalani's Deed of Trust Appendix C. Queen Lili?uokalani's Petition to U.S. President William H. Taft Notes Bibliography Index
