#nativehawaiian — Public Fediverse posts
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A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert in October, 2023.
"Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as #transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two #genders (man/woman).
"Even after the end of the modern era and as the #colonial period wanes, hundreds of distinct #Indigenous societies around the globe still retain their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders. The subject of #TwoSpirits, Fred Martinez, for example, was not a boy who wanted to be a girl, but both a boy and a girl — an identity his Navajo culture recognized and revered as #nádleehí. Meanwhile, Hina of Kumu Hina is part of a #NativeHawaiian culture that has traditionally revered and respected #mahu, those who embody both male and female spirit. It’s not uncommon for third gender people to perform critical spiritual and religious functions in their communities.
"Among many Indigenous societies, two prominent features often distinguish the lives and social roles of third gender persons from those of cisgender persons or contemporary transgender persons in non-Indigenous societies. The first is that many Indigenous terms for third gender people contain both the word for 'man' and 'woman' in their construction, and that #ThirdGender people are seen as embodying both of those genders in diverse ways. The second is that the history of many third genders is in the community role of religious specialists, which also takes diverse forms, depending on the beliefs of diverse cultures. While not all third gender persons are defined in these terms, across our species, this phenomenon of the third gender religious specialist, healer, or spiritual worker has been part of our #CollectiveIdentity and human experience since time immemorial.
"Since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the role that transgender, #GenderDiverse, and third gender people have in society, following the tenuous establishment of civil rights for #gay and #lesbian people in many nations and increased access to #genderaffirming care in the transgender community. Many Indigenous transgender people who also identify as third gender are familiar to large audiences via their participation in popular media or social media activism. Third gender people, like the Japanese-Samoan, #Faafafine artist Yuki Kihara, now participate in major global cultural events and function not just as representatives of their gender-based community, but of their nation. Kihara had both a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represented New Zealand at the 2021 Venice Biennale. [For more: '#LGBTQIA+ Pride and Two-Spirit People' in Smithsonian Voices.]
"In the 21st century, many third gender people choose to take advantage of #GenderAffirmingCare, and identify, in addition to being third gender, as transgender. As access to gender-affirming care parallels healthcare access, and both third gender and Indigenous persons are often marginalized economically, it is not as readily available to many Indigenous transgender people, and within Indigenous cultures, medical transition is often seen as separate or secondary to social transition.
"Within #Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases, they presently exist. An example of this would be the #burrnesha of Albania, women who give up their social role as women to live as men. Likewise, within Jewish culture and law, as many as eight genders have been historically recognized, and in diverse ways.
"Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity."
Learn more:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/#PBS #GenderDiversity #CulturalTraditions #Genders #ThreeGenders #ThirdGender #FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Genders
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[Short film]: Pili Ka Moʻo
Justyn Ah Chong with Malia Akutagawa (#KanakaMaoli)
"The #Fukumitsu ʻOhana (family) of #Hakipuu are #NativeHawaiian #TaroFarmers and keepers of this generational practice. While much of #Oahu has become urbanized, Hakipuʻu remains a kīpuka (oasis) of traditional knowledge where great chiefs once resided and their bones still remain. The Fukumitsus are tossed into a world of complex real estate and judicial proceedings when nearby Kualoa Ranch, a large settler-owned corporation, destroys their familial burials to make way for continued development plans."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/pili-ka-mo%CA%BBo#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #ReciprocityProject
#Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom
#RealEstate #KualoaRanch #CorporateColonialism #SettlerColonialism #NativeHawaiians #Hawaii #KingdomOfHawaii #Development #CulturalGenocide #FukumitsuOhana #ʻOhana #SolarPunkSunday -
"More than 150 people turned out at the Kihei Community Center on Wednesday for a public scoping meeting about a proposed telescope project on the summit of #Haleakala. The testimony was overwhelmingly against the project."
#Hawaii #Maui #Astronomy #AirForce #Telescopes #NativeHawaiian
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This month, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting commemorates Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by honoring the rich history, culture, and perspectives of these communities.
Explore the AAPB’s extensive collection of programs dedicated to #AANHPI history and perspectives and celebrate the diversity of voices in our archive: https://blog.americanarchive.org/2024/05/10/the-aapb-celebrates-asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month/
#PublicBroadcasting #Archives #MediaArchives #AAPI #NativeHawaiian #PacificIslander #AsianAmerican
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Navigating the Depths of Authentic #Hawaiian Culture.
"Kanaka" is a Hawaiian term that refers to a person, especially a native Hawaiian person.
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1893: #Hawaii
"In January 1893, a small group of white business and plantation owners, with the support of a U.S. envoy to Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawai'i), led a coup d'état that ousted the Hawaiian monarch Queen Liliʻuokalani from power. This came six years after the Queen's predecessor, her brother King David Kalakaua, was forced to sign a new constitution at gunpoint that stripped him of most of his powers and shifted them to members of the white planter class.
"The coup leaders immediately pushed for the U.S. to annex Hawaii, which it did in 1898. The islands remained a U.S. territory until 1959, when Hawaii became America's 50th state.
"In 1993, a century after the coup, the U.S. government formally apologized to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing their monarchy and annexing 1.8 million acres of land “without the consent of or compensation to the #NativeHawaiian people…or their #sovereign government.”
https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments#HumanRights
#Covert
#Corporatism
#Corporatocracy
#Corruption
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Kaulana Nā Pua ("Famous are the flowers") is a Hawaiian patriotic song written by Eleanor Kekoaohiwaikalani Wright Prendergast in 1893 for members of the Royal Hawaiian Band who protested the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom.
The song is also known under the title of Mele ʻAi Pōhaku, the "Stone-Eating Song", or Mele Aloha ʻĀina, the "Patriot's Song".
While it's still popular in Hawaiʻi today, not many non-Hawaiian speaking listeners are aware of the song's historical significance or the profound antipathy to U.S. annexation in its lyrics.
The "government" referred to in the song is the Provisional Government of Hawaii (which was later to become the Republic of Hawaii and subsequently the territory and state), proclaimed by the conspirators upon seizing power.
Mrs. Prendergast composed the song for the Royal Hawaiian Band, who:
… had just walked out on their jobs after the bandmaster demanded they sign an oath of loyalty to the Provisional Government.
The bandmaster said they had better sign or they would be eating rocks.
The Hawaiian Renaissance has lent the song Kaulana Nā Pua renewed significance in recent years. Its words are often cited in the context of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement as an expression of opposition to U.S. rule.
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"Edith Kanaka'ole is the first Hawaiian woman to grace a U.S. quarter"
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1178874246/quarter-hawaiian-woman-edith-kanakaole-aunty-edith -
Hula performance celebrates mahu life and experiences
Māhū in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are third gender people with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture, similar to Tongan fakaleiti and Samoan fa'afafine. Historically māhū were assigned male at birth, but in modern usage māhū can refer to a variety of genders and sexual orientations.
#LGBTQ #transgender #hula #NativeHawaiian
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/03/26/hawaii-news/hula-performance-celebrates-mahu-life-and-experiences -
Prayers? Bombs? Hawaii history shows stopping lava not easy
By Audrey McAvoy, December 2, 2022"Humans have rarely had much success stopping lava and, despite the world’s technological advances, doing so is still difficult and dependent on the force of the flow and the terrain. But many in Hawaii also question the wisdom of interfering with nature and Pele, the Hawaiian deity of volcanoes and fire.
"[In 1881], "Princess Ruth Ke’elikōlani approached the flow, offered brandy and red scarves and chanted, asking Pele to stop the flow and go home. The flow stopped before the barriers were built.
"More than 50 years later, Thomas A. Jaggar, the founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, asked U.S. Army Air Services to send planes to bomb a Mauna Loa vent to disrupt lava channels."
"'Thinking you should physically divert lava is a Western idea rooted in the notion that humans have to control everything,' said Kealoha Pisciotta, a #NativeHawaiian cultural practitioner. She said people need to adjust to the lava, not the other way around."
“'We are not separate from nature,' she said. 'We are a part of nature.'"
https://apnews.com/article/volcanic-eruptions-hawaii-volcanoes-mauna-loa-climate-and-environment-e171f88f9afcdc742e1b50c0b5f20ac7?utm_source=pocket-newtab
#Hawaii #Volcano #MaunaLoa
