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Trask, Haunani-Kay. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum. University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

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#RestInPower Queen. Repost from @amenra718 • Posted @withregram • @theafrolatindiaspora It’s been brought to my attention that we lost a Hawaiian Queen yesterday. 🖤🕊 Haunani Kay Trask October 3, 1949 - July 3, 2021 A lifelong scholar and activist, Haunani Kay Trask was an early and fearless leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, fighting for self-determination of the Hawaii people. A founding member Ka Lahui Hawai'i, the state’s largest sovereignty organization, Trask spoke and wrote boldly about Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, gender discrimination and the United Nations Declaration on the rights of the Indigenous Peoples. She often drew ire for her criticism of the United States; responding to disapproval that her harsh approach was “un-Hawaiian,” Trask one famously responded: “I am not soft. I am not sweet.” It is upsetting of how relevant these clips are today!! The fight for black & brown lives and our rights. The University of Hawaii-Mānoa, where Trask was a tenured professor for more than 30 years, credits her with co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian studies, as she was the founding director of the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies on the Mānoa campus. Additionally, she wrote two books of poetry (“Light in the Crevice Never Seen” and “Night is a Sharkskin Drum”) and a collection of politically provocative essays, “From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii.” She also co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary “Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation,” which premiered in 1994. She is widely considered one of the most influential women in Hawaiian history. - - - @usatoday recognized 10 Mana Wahine in their 2020 Hawaiʻi Women of the Century” article. #haunanikaytrask Photo: Brett Uprichard #Repost @oiwitv - # #thejuneteenthproject #blackartmatters #blackartistaffirmed #reclaimblackexistence #reframeblacknarratives #affirmblacklife #blacklivesmatter #humanizeblacklives https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_uJ2Yjm7E/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Reposted from @protectmaunakea How can we celebrate the independence of a nation that derives its freedom, wealth, and credibility from land theft, oppression, and genocide? In the words of our beloved #HaunaniKayTrask “Resistance is its own reward.” 🔺✊🏽🔺 House Bill 499 is essentially a land theft bill designed to strip Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Indigenous Hawaiians) of their land base. This includes extending the master lease that is being used to develop Mauna Kea. Take a moment today to learn about ways to support Indigenous self-determination. Stand in solidarity with Kanaka ʻŌiwi and First Peoples who are fighting to protect their rights, lands, waters, and lifeways from colonial corporate greed, insatiable development and exploitation. . #repost & caption: @unr_now @unrcalifornia https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ8AGw_nurF/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Trask, Haunani-Kay. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum. University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

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💁🏽MODE. Focus: Land Base. #maukatomakai #CBSFA #Repost @lahoihoiea with @repostapp ・・・ "You cannot just dance hula and go to Hawaiian language class at night and think you are going to get a land base. You can't do that. Cultural people have to become political. It's not just that political people, like myself, have to become cultural. Our culture can't be ornamental and recreational, that's what Waikiki is. Our culture has to be the core of our resistance, the core of our anger, the core of our mana. That's what our culture is for." - #haunanikaytrask #LHEhonoree #LaHoihoiEa #emaukeea #lahoihoiea2016

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"You cannot just dance hula and go to Hawaiian language class at night and think you are going to get a land base. You can't do that. Cultural people have to become political. It's not just that political people, like myself, have to become cultural. Our culture just can't be ornamental and recreational, that's what Waikiki is. Our culture has to be the core of our resistance, the core of our anger, the core of our mana. That's what our culture is for." - #haunanikaytrask #LHEhonoree #LaHoihoiEa #emaukeea