CANCELLED due to COVID-19. The Judiciary History Center in partnership with Nā Mea Hawaiʻi present a Women’s History Month program celebrating the recent publication of Kūʻē Petitions: A Mau Loa Aku Nō.
Join us with author Noenoe K. Silva as she reflects upon the historic impact of the Kūʻē Petitions and what we have learned from them since their reemergence twenty-two years ago.
Then witness Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Ka Lei Maile Aliʻi’s reenactment of “Ka Lei Maile Aliʻi – The Queen’s Women”. Written by Helen Edyth Didi Lee Kwai and produced by Lynette Cruz, this drama is adapted from a San Franscisco Call news article written by reporter Miriam Michelson describing a meeting held in September 1897 of Hui Aloha ‘Āina o Nā Wāhine in Hilo, Hawaiʻi to collect signatures for the Kūʻē Petitions.
Specially priced books from Nā Mea Hawaiʻi will be available. Proceeds will benefit Hawaiʻi People’s Fund and Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation.
This event is free and reservations are required. Please call our office at (808) 539-4999 if you require accommodation for a disability.
Noenoe K. Silva is a kupa o ka ʻāina o Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu. She is interested in rewriting Kanaka ʻŌiwi histories from Hawaiian points of view, based on sources in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. She teaches Indigenous and Hawaiian politics and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and is the author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism and The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstruction Native Hawaiian Intellectual History.
Lynette Cruz lives in Waiʻanae and is a retired professor of anthropology and current Kupuna in Residence at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. She is also a lecturer in political science at Leeward Community College Waiʻanae Moku and organizer of LCCWM’s Community Speakers Series. She is President of Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Ka Lei Maile Aliʻi (HAA KLMA), a branch of the recently revived (since 2016) Hui Aloha ʻĀina/Hawaiian Patriotic League, with branches on Māui, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi island, and Oʻahu. The branch’s primary focus is to provide popular education programs, including resistance art displays, that highlight or are based on historical events.