The Rediscovery of Hawaiian Sovereignty

Laenui, Poka

doi:10.17953/aicr.17.1.v520565l30116036

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“…Since the 1960s, a vibrant development of indigenous and Hawaiian national consciousness has occurred that has attempted to reclaim historical losses in land, language, power, status, resources, and culture due to the controlling colonial influences and attendant displacement of Hawaiians. Hawaiian activists have decisively challenged the sanctity of American entitlements across the world and the superiority of moral stature in U.S. territories in pushing back the colonial dominance of social and cultural institutions bureaucratically governing Hawai‘i (Laenui, 1993). Hawaiian communities have attempted to disentangle the cultural strands of DIE choking the life domains of “urban planning and development,” education, health, income and wealth.…”

Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Political disenfranchisement, acculturation stress, and ethnic marginality are correlates of Hawaiian identity positioned within a lower strata of society beset with indicators (poverty, unemployment) for qualitative distress associated with negative statistics and a higher overall risk burden for mental health problems (Baumhofer & Yamane, 2019; Fojas et al, 2018; Fujikane & Okamura, 2008; Irwin & Umemoto, 2016; Kaholokula et al, 2020). This Hawaiian cultural awakening has underscored questions and implications related to Native Hawaiian self-determination, independence, and sovereignty (Laenui, 1996). According to extensive archival research conducted by an eight-member task force sanctioned by Alu Like, Inc., a Native Hawaiian community advocacy organization, on the historical development of Hawai‘i’s mental health system:In 1963 Hawai‘i became eligible for a $50,000 federal grant-in-aid to begin planning for a statewide comprehensive community mental health system.…”

Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Colonial Regimes of Mental Health, Substance Use, Drug Treatment, and Recovery: A Locally Contextualized, Anticolonial Response

Laenui

Williams

2022

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Documented in this article is the anticolonial treatment modality developed by a community-based behavioral health center on the island of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i—situated in a predominately Native Hawaiian community reacting to and affected by American colonial control of the Hawaiian Islands since 1893. We tie Haraway’s concept of “situated knowledges” to the methodology of Clarke’s “situational analysis” as a conceptual framing and a methodological approach in engaging the work of decolonizing health concepts and treatment regimens commonly taken for granted. Enfolding within that process the conceptual mapping for an indigenously informed way of thinking that emphasizes the relationship between colonizing “systems of care”—which emerge out of a sociocultural context of cultural domination that has broken down communally embedded Indigenous identities through individualism and exclusion or othering (i.e., hereafter abbreviated DIE)—and the need for decolonizing social processes that are in greater harmony with the rise of Hawaiian national consciousness (‘Olu‘olu) through communalistic notions of care (Lokahi) and nurturing cultural identities in balance with secular and non-secular relations anchored in historical and contemporary contexts (Aloha; i.e., hereafter abbreviated OLA). By increasing the convergence of OLA with the cultural mainstream of DIE as a unifying reference point applied to other Hawaiian and indigenous groups in both theory and praxis, this article is both a contribution to the social science of treatment, and to the literature on decolonizing drugs and alcohol.

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Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%