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Native Hawaiian population was reduced to this fraction of the total resident population.
What is 20 percent?
Land, family, language, history, and spirituality.
What is Hawaiian culture connected to?
Trask identifies herself as belonging to this indigenous group.
Who are Native Hawaiians?
Trask argues that native Hawaiian Health problems are connected to land loss and americanation should be understood as a large political issue.
What is sovereignty?
Hawai'i advertises itself with the purpose of attracting more visitors to invest in travels there which has led to the displacement of many Native Hawaiians and the dependency of careers in hospitality.
What is a tourist economy?
Trask discusses how this is advertised and "sold" to tourists.
What are Hawaiian women and islands?
Trask says that Native Hawaiians view their land not as property but in a familial way
What is motherly?
According to Trask, this is not simply property, but is tied to Native Hawaiian family, genealogy, history, culture, and future generations.
What is land?
Trask uses this to describe how Hawaiian attributes are extorted, sold, and regulated by multinational corporations and the state.
What is the prostitute-pimp metaphor?
Idea/saying that's meaning changed due to influx of tourism and the tourist economy.
What is Aloha?
According to Trask, in 1921 the US government used this measurement to classify hawaiians as native or not.
What was the Blood Quantum?
Trask criticizes these feminists for discussing women’s oppression while sometimes overlooking the effects of colonialism on Native Hawaiians.
Who are white/haole feminists?
Propagated idea/slogan convincing native Hawaiian's to invest in tourism.
What is "the more you give, the more you get" idea?
Reason for Native Hawaiians being forced out or put into low paying tourism jobs.
What is "economic necessity"/limited economic choices?
After returning home Trask realized that American feminists focused solely on individual women's rights and failed to see the larger historical impacts affecting native hawaiians.
What is Imperialism/Colonialism?
Trask argues that this system benefits haole people in Hawaiʻi, including white women, even if they do not personally see themselves as colonizers.
What is American Imperialism?
This event in 1848 indirectly contributed to the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani and disposessed Native Hawaiian's birth right to own land.
What was the Great Māhele?
A title that is being sold and taken up by those that share Hawaiian ideas. Is being lost due to the commercialization of Hawaiian land.
What is Hawaiian Identity?
While studying abroad Trask developed this idea describing feminist creativity as a form of political power.
What is Feminist Eros?
According to Trask, non-Native allies should support Hawaiian struggles in this way rather than deciding what liberation should look like themselves.
What is following Native Hawaiian leadership?