Leaving Paradise : : Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 /

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

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 extr...

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

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