First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea indigenous studies dislocation

dislocation

oral tradition and the use of symbols relating to our environment and to our universe

Who is Indian enough

and these poems illuminate the vital place of the author's tribe both in the past and within the contemporary world

First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea indigenous studies dislocationUnderstanding the Hawai'i Island summit of Mauna a Wkea as a place of ancestral connection, cultural resurgence, and political resistance for Native Hawaiians. First Light is a site specific study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna a Wkea, the sacred mountain on the island of Hawai'i. Drawing on personal interviews, oral histories, archival research, participant observation, and