[EP#9: DECOLONIZATION SERIES #3] What do Pasifika people think about settlers?

Five Indigenous Pacific Islanders speak out on settlers and settler-colonialism. Kalani then goes into a summary of a paper on Radical Care and Survival Strategies Written by Dr. Hi’ilei Julia Hobart, a Pasifika scholar and researcher, and Dr. Tamara Kneese.

You will hear from:

Temiti, our awesome Samoan Ma’ohi (Tahitian) educator
Rhonda, an Indigenous iTaukei (Fijian) from Viti
Tēatuahere, our favorite beautiful poetic Ma’ohi (Tahitian) soul
Ha’åni, our Chamoru Samoan graduate student and future decolonization powerhouse
Kawena, our favorite angry Hawaiian and Kanaka Maoli future demilitarization powerhouse

Citations:

Angela “Ånghet” Hoppe-Cruz, Kisha Quichocho Borja (2010). I Kareran i Palåbran-måmi, UH Manoa School of Graduate Studies, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24267 https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24267
Patrick Wolfe (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4, 387-409, DOI: 10.1080/14623520601056240
Hobart, Hi‘ilei & Kneese, Tamara. (2020). Radical Care. Social Text. 38. 1-16. 10.1215/01642472-7971067. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339866054_Radical_Care

Links to Resources:

About West Papua: https://www.freewestpapua.org/info/about-west-papua/
More about West Papua Conflict: https://thediplomat.com/2019/09/why-is-west-papua-in-constant-turmoil/
Link to purchase “Effigies iii” featuring works by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Tagi Qolouvaki, No’u Revilla: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/effigies-iii-9781784631833
Link to Book: “Leaves of the Banyan Tree” by Albert Wendt: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/leaves-of-the-banyan-tree/
Link to Book: “Potiki” by Patricia Grace: https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/potiki-9780143573784
Link to Rhonda’s new song & Fijian dance anthem “Noqu i Tau”: https://youtu.be/YrYvHH4J2yE

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