Leaving Paradise : : Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 / / Bruce McIntyre Watson, Jean Barman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Barman, Jean,; Watson, Bruce McIntyre,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) :; 44 illus., 5 maps

Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited.Scholars and others interested in a number of fields-Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies-will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Leaving Paradise -- 2. Maritime Sojourners -- 3. The Astoria Adventure -- 4. In the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company -- 5. Making a Life in the Fur Trade -- 6. Hawaiians in the Missionary Advance -- 7. Boundary Making -- 8. North of the 49th Parallel -- 9. Moving across the Generations -- Hawaiians and Other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest -- Glossary -- Notes -- Sources -- General Index -- Index of Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest -- About the Authors