November 26, 2020
S1E9 - What do Pasifika people think about settlers?
Five Indigenous Pacific Islanders, Temiti, Rhonda, Tēatuahere, Ha’åni, and Kawena speak on settlers
[EP#9: DECOLONIZATION SERIES #3] What do Pasifika people think about settlers?
Five Indigenous Pacific Islanders speak out on settlers and settler-colonialism. Kalani then goes into a summary of a paper on Radical Care and Survival Strategies Written by Dr. Hi’ilei Julia Hobart, a Pasifika scholar and researcher, and Dr. Tamara Kneese.
You will hear from:
- Temiti, our awesome Samoan Ma’ohi (Tahitian) educator
- Rhonda, an Indigenous iTaukei (Fijian) from Viti
- Tēatuahere, our favorite beautiful poetic Ma’ohi (Tahitian) soul
- Ha’åni, our Chamoru Samoan graduate student and future decolonization powerhouse
- Kawena, our favorite angry Hawaiian and Kanaka Maoli future demilitarization powerhouse
Citations:
- Angela “Ånghet” Hoppe-Cruz, Kisha Quichocho Borja (2010). I Kareran i Palåbran-måmi, UH Manoa School of Graduate Studies, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24267 https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24267
- Patrick Wolfe (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4, 387-409, DOI: 10.1080/14623520601056240
- Hobart, Hi‘ilei & Kneese, Tamara. (2020). Radical Care. Social Text. 38. 1-16. 10.1215/01642472-7971067. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339866054_Radical_Care
Links to Resources:
- About West Papua: https://www.freewestpapua.org/info/about-west-papua/
- More about West Papua Conflict: https://thediplomat.com/2019/09/why-is-west-papua-in-constant-turmoil/
- Link to purchase “Effigies iii” featuring works by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Tagi Qolouvaki, No’u Revilla: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/effigies-iii-9781784631833
- Link to Book: “Leaves of the Banyan Tree” by Albert Wendt: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/leaves-of-the-banyan-tree/
- Link to Book: “Potiki” by Patricia Grace: https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/potiki-9780143573784
- Link to Rhonda’s new song & Fijian dance anthem “Noqu i Tau”: https://youtu.be/YrYvHH4J2yE
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