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ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES OF HAWAII:
WHAT DO HISTORICAL RECORDS TELL US?
The primary sources relate to people, places, and events in the novel Shark Dialogues. Investigate the pictures and documents provided and explore the links in the Library of Congress website. Then complete the interpretive essay writing assignment.

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Primary Source	Identification and Description	Collection Source and Copyright
	Painting: Whaling Whaling ships sailed the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans in search of whales, whose blubber was reduced to valuable oil. Rotch fleet among school of sperm whales	Credit Line: Library of Congress, Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion,1820-1890
click for larger image click here for the story of Kalaupapa	Black and white photo: Kalaupapa Kalaupapa was a leper colony established and maintained by the U.S. government from 1836 to 1969, on the island of Molokai. GENERAL VIEW FROM CRATER RIM TO WEST SHORE (TOWN OF KALAUPAPA)	Credit line: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, Built in America
click here for information about the Great Mahele of 1848	Statue: King Kamehameha III In 1848, King Kamehameha III divided the land into sectors, setting aside 3 million acres of prime land for the crown, 1 million acres for the government, and distributing 10,000 acres by a committee to all commoners. The latter portion was arid and generally unusable. Eventually most of this land found its way into the hands of foreigners.	Credit line: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, Celebrating Community Roots
click for larger image go on to page 3 for primary sources on annexation	Black and white photo: Annexation---Flag lowering On August 12, 1898, with the hoisting of the U.S. flag over the 'Iolani Palace, the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States, and the Hawaiian flag was lowered for the last time. "The Royal Hawaiian Band began playing, for the last time, "Hawaii'i Pono'i," the official Hawiaan anthem. The song was never finished." (73)	Credit Line: University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Hawaiian Collection, People and Places Connected with the Annexation
click for larger image	Lantern Slide, Sugar cane 1932: Maui. The cane harvest was "break-back" work, and often involved burning whole fields. Workers lived in huts and worked under masters in slave-like conditions. Unfair and often brutal treatment led to riots and the eventual formation of unions.	Credit Line: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
click for larger image	Safety film negative: WWII Japanese-American volunteers 'I am very happy that my son is the first man inducted,' Harue Doi,thirty-eight, of Lihue, Kauai said in broken English as he posed with his son Mitsuru, eighteen, first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer in the territory to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment being formed in the islands.	Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USF35-1326]
click for larger image	Lantern Slide: Moana Hotel, Tourism Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 1936. In the 20th century, tourism is a major facet of Hawaiian life, contributing to both the economy and the ecologocial crisis. The Moana Hotel was second of the first three to be built.	Credit Line:, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.

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