One Island, One People
From Evolution to Revolution
Reflecting on Research & What We Have Learned Already in World History
The traditions of native practices are beyond different from the traditions settlers brought. Native traditions of hunting/gathering consists of searching for, and finding your own food out within the land. Along with their own style of hunting, they have a unique way of preparing and serving the food. In the Rabbit Proof Fence Movie, at the beginning of the scenes, we were able to see Molly and her family tracking down their dinner which represents a native tradition which they all do together. Similar to Hawaiians, most go out either up in the mountains or down to the sea in search of food to bring home to the table. Within all of these practices, it was done out of love. However, when the settlers came, these native traditions were taken away. Settlers brought new inventions where hunting was not necessary and cooking over a fire with everyone around had no value anymore. With Molly’s family, right after cooking the food, they would jump right into the part where they eat and share with everyone around them. On the other hand, when the girls went to the settlement, they were to pray before they ate while they were given no choice but to eat what was served. In certain light, this might be a pro where they would not have to worry about where their next meal would come from. However, it can also be a con due to the fact that this can deprive them a way of learning how to survive. Even though, having food simply brought to you is good, still having that skill of survival can always be put to use later when needed. Over all, new traditions and old traditions should still be held with value as both can be beneficial.
Connecting the Dots to Hawaiʻi's Past & Present
Change can be both good and bad, but the shift from the native skill set of being “hunter/gatherers” is a needed change because of the population on the islands. That mindset was okay, and was the way of life back when our native Hawaiian ancestors were alive because there weren't a million people on the islands, but now in order to account for everyone’s health and well-being, we need the support of our Country. I’m not saying to totally cut out home grown products, but we need a balance because we cannot sustain with only food grown on the islands. Another thing is getting opportunities from people other than those who live on these islands such as health care, education, or jobs. Sometimes we need those doctors, professors, or CEOs to come to Hawaii or for us to reach out to them in order to get the help we need. And most times that cannot be accomplished by just looking for those types of people on this island.
Connecting the Dots to Your Kahiau Project for the Future
Our kahiau project was about poverty in Hawaii. Native traditions of foraging/hunter gathering impact our kahiau project in multiple ways. People in poverty are constantly foraging and working just to be able to have a roof over their heads. It is almost impossible for a person to live off of minimum wage in Hawaii. This where the idea of foraging can help.
Citations:
Noyce, P., Olsen, C., Winter, J., Sampi, E., Sansbury, T., Monaghan, L., Gulpilil, ., ... Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm). (2003). Rabbit-proof fence. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Film Finance Corp.
History. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2021, from https://www.matson.com/corporate/about_us/history.html
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Could Urban Foraging Actually Feed the Poor? | Solar One. (2015b, April 2). Solar One. https://www.solar1.org/could-urban-foraging-actually-feed-the-poor/
History. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2021, from https://www.matson.com/corporate/about_us/history.html
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Noyce, P., Olsen, C., Winter, J., Sampi, E., Sansbury, T., Monaghan, L., Gulpilil, ., ... Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm). (2003). Rabbit-proof fence. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Film Finance Corp.
History. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2021, from https://www.matson.com/corporate/about_us/history.html
Akana, Hoku
Could Urban Foraging Actually Feed the Poor? | Solar One. (2015b, April 2). Solar One. https://www.solar1.org/could-urban-foraging-actually-feed-the-poor/
History. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2021, from https://www.matson.com/corporate/about_us/history.html
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Impacts of Religion, Culture, Enlightenment,
& Exchanges Through Expansion
Europe’s Dark Ages were very bad for Europe, and only a little bad for other places. In fact a lot of other countries were thriving compared to Europe. Europe lost a lot of their stored knowledge due to barbarian invasions, they also went through famine, and more importantly, the black plague. The reason why it was called the Dark Ages was especially because they lost a lot of their knowledge and there was a rise of barbarians who were very savage and thus considered “dark”.
The ideas of religion vs culture as controlled by the church caused many debates and conflict. The church used religion to control the people and force them into believing in things that were not even in the bible. I believe this thinking doesn't really affect our kahiau issue because almost everybody wants to exterminate the homelessness problem. Nobody is trying to use religion or ideas to impact the poverty problem in Hawaii.
The events that occurred during the exploration and exchanges in the period of the Silk Roads impacted our Kahiau Issue globally. An example of this would be because of the trading that went on in the Silk Road, the known world expanded. People could no longer afford the things they needed to survive. Many of the people of the low class would live day to day with a single piece of bread and a single cup of water, and that was only if they were lucky enough to come by those things. This impacts the local version of this issue because as so much expansion is happening around Hawaii, people are kicked out of their homes, and lose their jobs, and although many have jobs they still aren’t able to afford things like shelter, food, and supplies they need for their families.
Knowing history and everything that has taken place in the past is very important in order to find solutions to modern day problems given to us. With the knowledge of history, it positions us to see events ready to happen that are invisible to the present. The value of history also gives us a better, more general understanding of the world we live in and as a result, we also pick up insights that go on in present times. The modern day challenges can always have a possible way of being solved based on problems in the past. We can study problems that happened before and the steps taken to resolve it. Mistakes also occur in the past where we learn and avoid repeating them while at the same time, look at the positive moves people made to fix any issues. The present will eventually become the past where the issues now will be looked back at from the future. With that, everyone who studies these times in the future will have an understanding of how we endured challenges similar to how we study the history of the past and learn from the times that happened then.
Citations:
Asghar, H. (2017, September 15). When Europe went through the dark Ages, Muslims had Their Enlightment: Where is it now? Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://mvslim.com/europe-went-dark-ages-muslims-enlightment-now/
Migration period. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Dark-Ages
The Middle Ages: Age of darkness or enlightenment? (2017, October 29). Daily Sun. https://www.daily-sun.com/arcprint/details/264797/The-Middle-Ages:-Age-of-darkness-or-enlightenment/2017-10-29
“Home.” Silk Road Festival, 3 Mar. 2021, silkroadfestival.org/.
Why Study History? (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://youtu.be/vgmNkYUL_Cw
PRX. (n.d.). Beta.prx.org. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://beta.prx.org/stories/289209
Citations:
Asghar, H. (2017, September 15). When Europe went through the dark Ages, Muslims had Their Enlightment: Where is it now? Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://mvslim.com/europe-went-dark-ages-muslims-enlightment-now/
Migration period. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Dark-Ages
The Middle Ages: Age of darkness or enlightenment? (2017, October 29). Daily Sun. https://www.daily-sun.com/arcprint/details/264797/The-Middle-Ages:-Age-of-darkness-or-enlightenment/2017-10-29
“Home.” Silk Road Festival, 3 Mar. 2021, silkroadfestival.org/.
Why Study History? (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://youtu.be/vgmNkYUL_Cw
PRX. (n.d.). Beta.prx.org. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://beta.prx.org/stories/289209
Competition For Resources in a Global Society
Given what we have learned from World War, World War 1, also known as the “War to End Wars'' never really lived up its name in truth. In WW1 we learned that Nationalism made huge impacts in the war. Nationalism impacted the Great War through the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. Beliefs erupted in the Salvic people’s minds that they should have their own nation. The nationalism that happened during this time inspired the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, which led to the outbreak of WW1. In this case we can see this as the domino effect where one thing led to another in a series of unfortunate events. We continue to see nationalism all throughout history even after the Great War. And Nationalism wasn’t the only key piece to the breakout of war. There were also technology advancements. As the nations battled against each other we see that they use the advantage in technology against one another. This caused an uproar in the second World War. Technology advancements play major roles in each war, and we can see this reason being used throughout history. Because technology advancements will never stop to go further, there will always be nations on edge, for the fear that another nation has better technology. And this is partially the reason why war will never end. Another key reason is that the population of the world is growing, which means that the people of a nation will need more food, water, shelter, and land, basically key resources to living. With that being said, nations will never stop having wars, so long as the population continues to grow, as well as their greed for power and standing in the world.
During the beginning of the first World War, technologies were not very advanced. Many armies were marching in on horses, but at the end they were flying out in planes. The war was what pushed countries to make bigger advancements in war technologies because every country wanted to win. The way that people were able to come up and engineer such intricate technologies is amazing. But the fact that they used those new advancements to create machines of war was not amazing. If we were to use that collective innovation to do good things for the Earth such as finding a good solution to climate change, then we would be doing good as a human race. But instead we decided to use war as a motive for destructive innovation and to almost kill off our human race. Our Kahiau topic was about poverty, and if you’re ever talking about war, you will always hear about poverty. Because of the ongoing war, people had to ration and give a lot of resources towards the war efforts, so a lot of families were left hungry and not getting what they needed to live a happy life. War did not solve anything. Not only did families in the U.S. feel the poverty, so did families in villages who had their houses blown up or taken over for the war. They were left in the most extreme poverty, and that’s not the life that people should live.
War is possible anytime. This even includes when the place at war is at its best state. Germany, Great Britain, France, and Austria-Hungary were all culturally advanced. These civilizations were part of the more advanced civilizations. Including technology, scientifically. They produced the best state of art and advancements. After the war they all were reset and had to start from scratch. This just shows how bad war can be. Going from the best civilizations to having nothing. This impacts the local version with many problems in Hawaii.
Citations:
Milzarski, E. (2020, October 30). Why WWI was once called 'the war to end ALL WARS'. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/war-to-end-all-wars/
Akana, H. (2021, January 31). Note-taking on The First Big Fight - Summer of 1914.
Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://docs.google.com/document/d/15SSR82gybOGdPQxNNyeJpztJ0fR7wdIIRdFwj3kIQjQ/edit?usp=sharing
Lee, A. (2015, January 26). The battle to feed Tommy: New EXHIBITION looks at the diet of a ww1 soldier. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/502452/The-Battle-to-feed-Tommy-The-diet-of-a-WW1-soldier
Akana, H. (2020, September 27). Flipped Lecture Note-Taker #4: Dark Ages & Crusades
Charlie, D. (n.d.). Advancements in Technology During WWII: advancement, eng, luftwaffe, panzer, technology, wwii | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters. Edu.glogster.com. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from
https://edu.glogster.com/glog/advancements-in-technology-during-wwii/1wxka7wl5ec?=glogpedia-source
Citations:
Milzarski, E. (2020, October 30). Why WWI was once called 'the war to end ALL WARS'. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/war-to-end-all-wars/
Akana, H. (2021, January 31). Note-taking on The First Big Fight - Summer of 1914.
Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://docs.google.com/document/d/15SSR82gybOGdPQxNNyeJpztJ0fR7wdIIRdFwj3kIQjQ/edit?usp=sharing
Lee, A. (2015, January 26). The battle to feed Tommy: New EXHIBITION looks at the diet of a ww1 soldier. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/502452/The-Battle-to-feed-Tommy-The-diet-of-a-WW1-soldier
Akana, H. (2020, September 27). Flipped Lecture Note-Taker #4: Dark Ages & Crusades
Charlie, D. (n.d.). Advancements in Technology During WWII: advancement, eng, luftwaffe, panzer, technology, wwii | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters. Edu.glogster.com. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from
https://edu.glogster.com/glog/advancements-in-technology-during-wwii/1wxka7wl5ec?=glogpedia-source
Final Group Reflection
Something I learned from being at Kamehameha that also translated to my community was to be kind to everyone you meet. Being at school, you’ll meet a lot of people, and it’s your choice whether you want to go along to get along and not talk to anyone, or if you want to talk to people and make friends, because in the end, when we’re all at our 40 year class reunion, we’re going to remember the people who were kind to you. In my neighborhood, the 3 houses in a row across the street all go to Punahou. Being from a school like Kamehameha, you would think that we would naturally not get along with each other because of the “school rivalry”, but from the time we moved in till now we’ve all been very close and had a few parties and played a lot of basketball together in their driveway. Kamehameha offers a lot of opportunities, and I’m trying to take advantage of all the opportunities I can get, currently in my time at Kamehameha I’ve done Zumba, choir, walking and jogging, football, wrestling, track and field, student council, ILH council, NHS, and maybe a few more I’m forgetting, but the point is that there are a lot of things to do at this school, but something that I want to use as a motive for college is sports, and more specifically, football. I want to be able to go college with a football scholarship, get all my degrees, and hopefully comeback to Hawai’i and use my past skill in student government to make a change in my community.
There's many leaders in my community right now. It would be hard to become a big leader that people would follow but I think I would be able to lead kids in the right direction of where their life should go. Some leaders in my community are leading the solar farm protest and many other things in the valley. I could get involved in that but to me it's not a big thing. I think I would be a leader to kids by teaching them how to survive by themselves and teaching them how to speak Hawaiian. This is just like our ancestors they taught their children these things. As a future graduate of Kamehameha teaching Hawaiian is a small thing I could do but I could teach them how to be successful in school to get a better future and go to a good college. I think these are good examples of how I would lead my community.
As a Kamehameha student it is important to learn about different things. And I think one thing we learn at school is how to be problem solvers in any situation. I think Kamehameha helps to give us opportunities to problem solve by ourselves to help with the bigger picture and problems. I think without world history it would be harder to think of things that may work to resolve certain issues such as the UN Sustainability goals that we always talk about in World History. Also the idea of our own indigenous communities or our ancestors that have come before helps to give us a good idea on how to solve certain problems and issues in each and every community here in Hawaiʻi. I think in my community poverty is a big problem not necessarily dead broke families but families who arenʻt fully comfortable with their money situation. One way I think that can help with this is going back to living off the land and not fully relying on buying foods at stores. I know there is an initial price in order to get all the tools needed but after itʻs one way to help.
Being a Pua a Pauahi and a future graduate of Kamehameha has such a strong value to me. From being born and raised in a small town, I learned that it is very important to keep your mindset open to changes. There is so much in the world that you can experience and so much to learn. With the learning opportunity I was given from Kamehameha schools, I learned so much about the world and time of events that I can use that knowledge to find modern solutions in today’s time. Along with that, many of the teachers are heavy on the fact of teaching us leadership skills. They teach us the qualities of a leader and ways we can bring it into reality. Living in a small community, where there are people who might need an insight of the world brought to them, I see an opportunity to practice the leadership skills I was taught at Kamehameha. It is my job to value this opportunity of education since not everyone has this given to them. There are many people who would do anything to have a place and education like mine, so it's important that I take advantage of this and share it. The education shared and passed on can create many future leaders. The world has so much to offer where I can always adapt to it and bring it back to my communities.
In my own role as a Pua a Pauahi and a future graduate of Kamehameha I’ve learned that it’s important to manage my use of time, to set limits for myself, and to also be sure to plan out what I’m doing before actually doing it. Given what we have learned about World HIstory and the history of our own indigenous communities I can best utilize the opportunities and gift of education I receive as a student on this campus to contribute to and advocate for such ideals as the UN sustainability goals within and for the communities I come from. By having these opportunities as a student I can use the knowledge I’ve gained to make a change in my community. I can use fact based resources and even create my own fact based resources to spread the word of what is happening in my community, and to also make others aware of the situation. An example I can use would be to help the poverty problem here in Hawaii. Around the islands we can see homeless camps throughout parks, parking lots, beaches, and even in mountains. A way to help this situation is for the people of this island to acknowledge these people, and encourage them to donate whatever they can, of course there is already a food bank community working together to help out, but I would like there to be something bigger that can get these people into a more proper shelter.
I have learned that I need to use my role the Pauahi gave me to be a functioning member of society and show a good example for the younger generation. I can utilize the the opportunities and gift of education you receive as a student on this campus to contribute to and advocate for such ideals as the UN Sustainability Goals within and for the communities that I came from by studying hard to get into college so i can be able to start a business or find a real job that will benefit me and the people who are not as privileged as me. I can create a business to help homeless kids go to school, or I could get a regular job and become a role model for the young Hawaiians out there.
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Dikilato, K. (2021, May 21).
Farias, J. (2021, May 21).
Gonzales, K. (2021, May 21).
Palimoʻo, D. (2021, May 21).
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Dikilato, K. (2021, May 21).
Farias, J. (2021, May 21).
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Palimoʻo, D. (2021, May 21).
Samson, N. (2021, May 21).