Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People fantasy In All My Relatives David

In All My Relatives David C

Joshua Whitehead unravels the coded "I" to trace the formation of a colonized self and reclaim representations of Indigenous texts

the renewal of life--in myth and in art

in American history

Infused with candor

Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People fantasy In All My Relatives DavidIn the middle of the great Pacific Ocean is a little island. Her name is Kanaloa Kaho'olawe. Discover the story of an island sacred to Native Hawaiians. Beginning with her birth in a volcanic eruption, Kaho'olawe thrives surrounded by animals on land and in the sea. When Polynesian voyagers arrive and begin to raise their families there, the island is happy. As the years pass, invasive goats devastate the ecosystem, and during World War II and the