Detours

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press. Hōkūlani K. Aikau is Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i.

Acknowledgements  xiii
Introduction  1
Part 1. Wahi Pana / Storied Places  15
Only Twenty Ahupua'a Away  19
Hā-mākua  26
He Mo'olelo no Pa'auilo: Restor(y)ing 'Āina in a Quiet, Old Plantation Town in Hāmākua  28
Ponoiwi  37
Wehe a'ela ka 'Īao ma Haleakalā  45
(Locals Will) Remove All Valuables from You Vehicle: The Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens and the Damming of the Waters  50
Finding Direction: Google Mapping the Sacred, Mo'olelo Mapping Wahi Pana in Five Poems  58
Princess Ka'iulani Haunts the Empire of Waikīkī  67
Sources of Sustainment: Fort Kamehameha and 'Āhua Point  77
Fantasy Island: From Pineapple Plantation to Tourist Plantation on Lāna'i  86
Anini  94
Kahale'ala, Halele'a: Fragrant Joyful Home, a Visit to Anini, Kaua'i  96
Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha: The Stories Places of Keaukaha  107
Part II. Hana Lima / Decolonial Projects and Representation  119
Ke Kilohana  123
Aloha is Deoccupied Love  125
Sovereign Spaces: Creating Decolonial Zones through Hula and Mele  132
Settler Colonial Postcards  147
An Island Negotiating a Pathway for Responsible Tourism  153
Ka Hale Hō'ike'ike a Pihopa: A Bishop Museum Love Story  164
Reclaiming the 'Ili of Haukulu and 'Aihulama  173
Keauhou Resort: Rethinking Highest and Best Use  182
'A'ole is Our Refusal  193
"Where are Your Sacred Temples?" Notes on the Struggle for Mauna a Wākea  200
Kūluku Hale in Hāna, East Maui: Reviving Traditional Hawaiian House and Heaiu Building  211
Pū'olo Pa'akai: A Bundle of Salt from Pū'olo, Hanapēpē, Kaua'i  220
"Welcome to the Future:" Restoring Keawanui Fishpond  230
Part III. Huaka'i / Tours for Transformation  245
The Hawai'i DeTour Project: Demilitarizing Sites and Sights on O'ahu  249
Kanaloa Kaho'olawe: He Wahi Akua / A Sacred Place  261
Fences and Fishing Nets: Conflicting Visions of Stewardship for Ka'ena and Mākua  271
Beneath the Touristic Sheen of Waikīkī  283
Sakada  293
A Downtown Honolulu and Capital District Decolonial Tour  300
Unearthing 'Auwai and Urban Histories in Kaka'ako  315
Displaced Kaka'ako  326
What's under the Pavement in my Neighborhood, Pūowaina  238
Mapping Wonder in Lualualei on theHuaka'i Kāko'o no Wai'anae Environmental Justice Bus Tour  340
Part IV. Hawai'i beyond the Big Eight / New mappings  351
Where is Hawai'i? Hawaiian Diaspora and Kuleana 355
We Never Voyage Alone  362
Law of Canoe: Reckoning Colonialism and Criminal Justice in the Pacific  373
Reconnecting with Ancestroial Islands: A Guide to Papahānaumokuākea (the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands)  380
Conclusion: 'A'ole I Pau (Not Yet Finished)  391
Glossary of Terms  393
Select References 405
Contributors  409
Index  417