Title Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 / Jean Barman and Bruce McIntyre Watson

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 512 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Leaving paradise -- Maritime sojourners -- The astoria adventure -- In the service of the Hudsons Bay Company -- Making a life in the fur trade -- Hawaiians in the missionary advance -- Boundary making -- North of the 49th parallel -- Moving across the generations -- Hawaiians and other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-489) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Hawaiians -- Northwest, Pacific Polynesians -- Northwest, Pacific Hawaiians -- Employment -- Northwest, Pacific Polynesians -- Employment -- Northwest, Pacific National characteristics, Hawaiian. Frontier and pioneer life -- Northwest, Pacific Fur trade -- Northwest, Pacific -- History HISTORY -- Native American. Frontier and pioneer life Fur trade Hawaiians Hawaiians -- Employment National characteristics, Hawaiian Polynesians Polynesians -- Employment Beschäftigung Pelzhandel SUBJECT Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 18th century Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century Subject Pacific Northwest Pazifischer Ozean -- Nordwest Polynesier. Hawaiianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Watson, Bruce McIntyre. ISBN 0824874536 9780824874537

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