Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T19:27:00.846Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Education for Elimination in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: Settler Colonialism and the Native Hawaiian Chiefs' Children's Boarding School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Julie Kaomea
Julie Kaomea*
Affiliation:
College of Education at the University of Hawai'i; email: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

On August 27, 1862, the much-loved crown prince and heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawai'i died tragically and inexplicably at the tender age of four. Prince Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa, the beloved child of a long line of chiefs, was the only son of Alexander Liholiho (Kamehameha IV) and Emma Na'ea (Queen Emma). He was believed to be the last child to be born to a reigning Hawaiian monarch and the last hope of the Kamehameha Dynasty. Adored by the Hawaiian public, his birth was celebrated for days throughout the islands. Likewise, his untimely death was mourned for years to come as it left his parents heartbroken and the Hawaiian nation without a constitutionally recognized heir. One of the Hawaiian newspapers is quoted as saying, “The death of no other person could have been so severe a blow to the King and his people.” The following year, the King himself died of grief and despair.

Type
Articles
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , pp. 123 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 History of Education Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 “Death of His Royal Highness, Prince of Hawai'i,” The Pacific Commerical Advertiser, 28 (August 1862): 2.Google Scholar

2 Silva, Noenoe K., Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 48.Google Scholar

3 See, for example, Morris, Alfred D., “Death of the Prince of Hawai'i: A Retrospective Diagnosis,”Hawaiian Journal of History 28 (1994): 79–85.Google Scholar

4 Pukui, Mary K., Haertig, E. W., and Lee, Catherine A., Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2 (Honolulu: Hui Hãnoi, 1972), 33.Google Scholar

5 Cooke, Juliette Montague to Smith, Sally, 20 March 1846, Missionary Letters, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

6 Menton, Linda K., “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report: The Hawaiian Chiefs’ Children's School, 1839–1850” (PhD Dissertation, University of Hawai'i, 1982), 323.Google Scholar

7 Ibid., 355–7; Menton, Linda K., “A Christian and ‘Civilized’ Education: The Hawaiian Chiefs’ Children's School, 1839–50,” History of Education Quarterly 32 (Summer 1992): 242.Google Scholar

8 See, for example, Lorenzo Veracini, “Introducing Settler Colonial Studies,” Settler Colonial Studies 1, no. 1 (2011): 1–5.Google Scholar

9 Veracini, Lorenzo, Settler Colonialism (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 96–104.Google Scholar

10 Wolfe, Patrick, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (London: Cassell, 1999), 1–3.Google Scholar

11 Ibid., 163.Google Scholar

12 Ibid., 388.Google Scholar

13 Veracini, , Settler Colonialism, 53–74.Google Scholar

14 Smith, Andrea, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy,” in Color of Violence, ed. Smith, Andrea, Richie, Beth E., and Sudbury, Julia (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006), 68.Google Scholar

15 Wolfe, Patrick, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 388.Google Scholar

16 Ibid.Google Scholar

17 Kauanui, J. Kehaulani and Wolfe, Patrick, “Settler Colonialism Then and Now,” Politica & Società 1, no. 2 (2012): 686–94.Google Scholar

18 Wolfe, , “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” 388.Google Scholar

19 Ibid.Google Scholar

20 Kauanui, and Wolfe, , “Settler Colonialism Then and Now,” 240–41.Google Scholar

21 Wolfe, , “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” 388.Google Scholar

22 Kauanui, and Wolfe, , “Settler Colonialism Then and Now,” 241–42.Google Scholar

23 Kaomea, Julie, “Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities,” Educational Researcher 32, no. 2 (2003): 24.Google Scholar

24 Richards, Mary A., Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke: Their Autobiographies Gleaned from Their Journals and Letters (Honolulu: Daughters of Hawaii, 1970); Mary A. Richards, The Hawaiian Chiefs’ Children's School, 1839–1850 (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1987).Google Scholar

25 Richards, , Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, xx.Google Scholar

26 Menton, , “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report,” 151.Google Scholar

27 Hernandez-Avila, Ines, “In Praise of Insubordination, Or What Makes a Good Woman Go Bad?” in The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie (New York: Routledge, 2006), 198; Stannard, David, American Holocaust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 118–19.Google Scholar

28 Smith, Andrea, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005), 4.Google Scholar

29 See, for example, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995); Churchill, Ward, Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools (San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2004); Smith, Conquest. Google Scholar

30 Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 75.Google Scholar

31 E. S. Craighill Handy and Pukui, Mary K., Polynesian Family System in Ka'ū, Hawai'i (Rutland, VT: Turtle, 1972), 94.Google Scholar

32 Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 75.Google Scholar

33 Handy, and Pukui, , Polynesian Family System in Ka'ū, Hawai‘i, 93.Google Scholar

34 Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 78.Google Scholar

35 Ibid., 79; Jensen, Lucia T. and Jensen, Natalie M., Daughters of Haumea: Women of Ancient Hawai'i (San Francisco, CA: Pueo Press, 2005), 132.Google Scholar

36 Pukui, Mary K. and Elbert, Samuel H., Hawaiian Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1986), 198.Google Scholar

37 Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 80.Google Scholar

38 Ibid., 83–85.Google Scholar

39 Ibid., 89–91; Malo, David, Hawaiian Antiquities, trans. Emerson, Nathaniel B. (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1951), 686–94; Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 89.Google Scholar

40 Kamakau, Samuel M., Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, 1961), 82; Ahlo, Charles and Walker, Jerry, Kamehameha's Children Today (Honolulu: Walker, J., 2000), 5.Google Scholar

41 Malo, , Hawaiian Antiquities, 74; Pukui, Haertig, and Lee, Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 79–80.Google Scholar

42 Gething, Judith R., “Christianity and Coverture: Impact on the Legal Status of Women in Hawaii, 1820–1920,” Hawaiian Journal of History 11 (1977): 686–94; RaeDeen Keahiolalo-Karasuda, “The Colonial Carceral and Prison Politics in Hawai'i” (PhD Dissertation, University of Hawai'i, 2008), 65.Google Scholar

43 Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 83.Google Scholar

44 Ibid., 77; Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, 122.Google Scholar

45 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 16 May 1840, Journal Collection, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

46 Ibid., 16 May 1840.Google Scholar

47 Ibid., 16 December 1845.Google Scholar

48 Ii, John Papa, Fragments of Hawaiian History, trans. Pukui, Mary K. (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1959), 53–55; Pukui, , Haertig, , and Lee, , Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 28–29; Keahiolalo-Karasuda, “The Colonial Carceral and Prison Politics in Hawai'i,” 76–80; Menton, “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report,” 147–51.Google Scholar

49 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 30 January 1844.Google Scholar

50 Ibid., 28 October 1843; Ibid., 30 October 1843.Google Scholar

51 Ibid., 7 June 1839; Ibid., 28 December 1846; Ibid., 22 September 1845.Google Scholar

52 Keahiolalo-Karasuda, , “The Colonial Carceral and Prison Politics in Hawai'i,” 40; “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 9 January 1847.Google Scholar

53 Ibid., 25 January 1847; Ibid., 6 January 1847.Google Scholar

54 Ibid., 23 January 1847; Keahiolalo-Karasuda, “The Colonial Carceral and Prison Politics in Hawai‘i,” 65; “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 1 February 1847.Google Scholar

55 Pukui, Haertig, and Lee, Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2, 83.Google Scholar

56 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 12 March 1844.Google Scholar

57 Malo, , Hawaiian Antiquities, 54–55; Pukui, Haertig, and Lee, Nãnã i ke Kumu, vol. 2,89.Google Scholar

58 Handy, and Pukui, , Polynesian Family System in Ka'ū, Hawai'i, 108.Google Scholar

59 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 20 July 1847.Google Scholar

60 Amos Cooke to Rufus Anderson, 4 November 1847, Sandwich Islands Mission Collection, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

61 Ibid.Google Scholar

62 Juliette Montague Cooke to Fanny Montague, 28 August 1847, Missionary Letters, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

63 Cooke, Amos to Montague, Fanny, 25 February 1850, Missionary Letters, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

64 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 7 September 1849.Google Scholar

65 Amos Cooke to Fanny Montague, 25 February 1850.Google Scholar

66 Ibid.Google Scholar

67 Osorio, Jonathan K. K., Dismembering Lãhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002), 147.Google Scholar

68 Wolfe, , “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” 388.Google Scholar

69 Smith, , Conquest, 37; Lomawaima, They Called It Prairie Light, 86.Google Scholar

70 Menton, , “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report,” 323.Google Scholar

71 Ibid., 322–23.Google Scholar

72 Ibid., 343.Google Scholar

73 Ibid.Google Scholar

74 Osorio, , Dismembering Lãhui, 210–11; Silva, Aloha Betrayed, 122.Google Scholar

75 Veracini, , “Introducing Settler Colonial Studies,” 3.Google Scholar

76 Ibid.Google Scholar

77 Ibid.Google Scholar

78 Ibid., 9.Google Scholar

79 Vizenor, Gerald R., Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 93.Google Scholar

80 See, for example, Alfred, Taiaiake, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Anion and Freedom (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 151; Brayboy, Bryan M.J., “Yakkity Yak and Talking Back: An Examination of Sites of Survivance in Indigenous Knowledge” in Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance, eds. Malia Villegas, Sabina Neugebauer, and Kerry Venegas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2008), 340–41; Grande, Sandy, Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 171–76; Eve Tuck, “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,” Harvard Educational Review 79, no. 3 (2009): 422–44.Google Scholar

81 Menton, , “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report,” 254; Ibid., 262.Google Scholar

82 Amos Cooke to Rufus Anderson, 4 November 1847, Sandwich Islands Mission Collection, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawai'i.Google Scholar

83 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 23 January 1847.Google Scholar

84 Menton, , “Everything that is Lovely and of Good Report,” 215.Google Scholar

85 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 30 January 1847.Google Scholar

86 “Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of the Sandwich Islands to His Correspondent in Washington,” Polynesian 5 (10 February 1849): 155.Google Scholar

87 Wikipedia Contributors, “Abigail Maheha,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abigail_Maheha&oldid=503314847 (accessed 12 February 2012).Google Scholar

88 Wikipedia Contributors, “Talk: Abigail Maheha,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Abigail_Maheha&oldid=513652960 (accessed February 12, 2012).Google Scholar

89 Ibid.Google Scholar

90 Instapedia Contributors, “Abigail Maheha,” Instapedia, http://www.instapedia.com/m/abigail%20maheha (accessed February 12, 2012).Google Scholar

91 Delgado, Richard, “On Telling Stories in School: A Reply to Farber and Sherry,” Vanderbilt Law Review 46 (1993): 670.Google Scholar

92 Ibid.Google Scholar

93 “Amos Starr Cooke Journal,” 20 October 1846.Google Scholar

94 Ibid., 24 October 1846. It is likely that, in this nineteenth-century context, the word “intercourse” was used to refer to general interpersonal interactions rather than specific interactions of a sexual nature.Google Scholar

95 Wikipedia Contributors, “Talk: Kamehameha, V,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kamehameha_V&oldid=440214516 (accessed February 12, 2012).Google Scholar

96 Ahlo, and Walker, , Kamehameha's Children Today, iv.Google Scholar

97 Ibid.Google Scholar

98 Ibid., 70.Google Scholar

99 Ibid., iv.Google Scholar

100 Ibid., 5.Google Scholar