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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (Indigenous Pacifics) by Emalani Case, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, April K. Henderson, April Henderson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (Indigenous Pacifics) about?

In Everything Ancient Was Once New , Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaiʻi’s shores. Kahiki is therefore both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection. Tracing physical, historical, intellectual, and spiritual journeys to and from Kahiki, Case frames it as a place of refuge and sanctuary, a place where ancient knowledge can constantly be made anew. It is in Kahiki, and in the sanctuary it creates, that today’s Kānaka Maoli can find safety and reprieve from the continued onslaught of settler colonial violence while confronting some of the uncomfortable and challenging realities of being Indigenous in Hawaiʻi, in the Pacific, and in the world. The book engages with Kahiki as a shifting term employed by Kānaka Maoli to explain their lives and experiences at different points in history. Case argues for reactivated and reinvigorated engagements with Kahiki to support ongoing work aimed at decolonizing physical and ideological spaces and

Who reads Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (Indigenous Pacifics)?

Author

Emalani Case, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, April K. Henderson, April Henderson

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824886806

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities