Hui Panalāʻau: Hawaiian Colonists in the Pacific, 1935-1942
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Hui Panalāʻau: Hawaiian Colonists in the Pacific, 1935-1942Scope and Content
This introduction originally appeared in the humanities guide Hui Panalā‘au, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 2002. The front matter, back matter and index for the oral history project called Hui Panalaau: Hawaiian Colonists in the Pacific, 1935-1942. 8 individual interview transcripts are available in this database as separate records.Context
It took three–five days for a ship to reach a colonist in need of emergency medical attention. At least four such emergencies took place prior the outbreak of the war. Two colonists suffered from appendicitis attacks, Carl Kahalewai in 1938 and Manny Pires in 1939: Pires made it to the hospital in time, but Kahalewai died en route to Honolulu. In 1941, Dominic Zagara and Henry Knell sustained severe burns when the hydrogen from their observation balloon ignited. Both returned to Honolulu badly in need of medical attention. Memorandum, dated April 8, 1940, from W.F. McBride, Chief Radio Engineering Section, to Civil Aeronautics Authority, Washington, D.C. While ROTC training helped to reinforce certain principles, these same tenets could also be found in traditional Hawaiian society: listen to your elders, learn from those who know; respect leadership and authority; and place group and communal needs before individual needs. Talk has resumed among some of the surviving colonists to pursue some form of federal recognition or restitution for those families who lost loved ones during the Panala‘au expeditions. Such a resolution would require official federal administrative or Congressional action.Collection
Repository: Center for Oral History, Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii at ManoaCategory
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