1/27/12 By Christine Hitt I’ve received requests over the years asking for information about Hawaiians who joined the Hudson’s Bay Company and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Many people are still not aware that there is a large community of Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, who descended from ancestors who traveled there in the early [...]
12/5/11 By Christine Hitt “Pre-contact Hawaii had 350-450 fishponds. Today, there are only 50 in the state that are still useable,” explained Kelii Kotubetey coordinator of Paepae o Heeia. As I was browsing the archives for historic fishpond photos, you can see first-hand how fishponds were filled in. The first photo, taken in 1930s over [...]
12/3/11 By Christine Hitt I helped put together this video for http://www.honolulumagazine.com. It was great to learn first-hand the Hawaiian traditional practices of building a Hawaiian fishpond. In ancient Hawaii, the entire community (thousands of people) lined up and worked together to build these by handing rocks person-to-person, as we did in the video. It [...]
Kahoolawe and Lanai: Tiny Isles, Were Homes of Exiles Kings banished men to one inhospitable spot, and women to the other, but lonely males crossed the water and rescued or captured the ladies, so they all became one settlement. From THRUM’S HAWAIIAN ANNUAL of 1903 Among the events and conditions of dawning Hawaiian civilization that [...]
November 20, 2011BY Christine Hitt While interviewing Bill Kaiheekai Maioho (see previous post), he shared this painting depicting Hoapili and Hoolulu taking Kamehameha’s iwi to its final destination. Share on Facebook
May 4, 2010 BY Christine Hitt I wrote this story for HONOLULU Magazine’s May 2010 issue… you can view it here. A Family’s Kuleana Caring for the bones at the Royal Mausoleum is a responsibility passed down through generations. I have some extra notes I’m going to post for this story in a future blog… [...]
BY Christine Hitt May 2, 2010 Princess Kaiulani’s parents were Princess Likelike, younger sister to King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani, and Scotsman Archibald Cleghorn. In the Hawaiian Gazette of 1907, A.S. Cleghorn, then Governor of Oahu Island under the Hawaiian Monarchy, recalled old times. Here are some quotes from the piece: “I came to Honolulu [...]
BY Christine Hitt April 8, 2010 Last month, on March 26, Kuhio Day was observed as a State holiday. Coincidentally, a few days before that, I ran across the February 1922 issue of Paradise of the Pacific in which writer, George Mellen, talked of Prince Kuhio’s death, funeral and fond memories. “On the handsome gold [...]
By Christine Hitt March 8, 2010 I found this photo in the 1921 Paradise of the Pacific pages. It is not dated or does it explain where it was taken, but I assume that it was taken within the same year. Although many westerners were moving in during this time, it was still common to [...]
By Christine Hitt February 25, 2010 While looking through the 1921 archives of Paradise of the Pacific, I ran across an article by George Mellen titled “Deserted, Nameless and Forgotten.” It was about a deserted village that he had run across by foot between Makapuu and Waimanalo—there was no automobile access through this area at [...]
