What’s The Cold, Hard Truth About Ice In Hawaiʻi? with Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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Hawaii State Parks and Cultural Memory
You're working on a project about cultural memory, commemoration and hauntings in Hawaii State parks. I'm trying to think about the post-statehood moment right when Hawaii becomes a state all of a sudden it can access all of these federal funds. So that leads to weird negotiations with the state to be able to remain on state park lands. Very spectacular evictions of villages that lived in these places. The removal of native Hawaiian remains and bones like all kinds of things get removed from these parks. It completely reconfigures these social landscapes.
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