Download or read book Niihau written by Rerioterai Tava and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ni ihau the Last Hawaiian Island written by Ruth M. Tabrah and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ni'ihau, long known as Hawaii's 'Mystery Island', or the 'Forbidden Isle', has a rich, fascinating history put down for the first time in Ruth Tabrah's Ni'ihau: The Last Hawaiian Island. In her compelling, fast-paced, very personal and vivid style, Ms. Tabrah gives us an intimate look at Hawaii's only privately owned island. From her story of Lord Vancouver's rescue of two 'shanghaied' Ni'ihau wahines who were the first Hawaiian women ever to see the American west coast to the unusual history of the Scotch family who bought Ni'ihau for $10,000 in 1864, readers will feel as if they too have visited this island where, until recently, so few outsiders have ever been able to go."--Back cover.
Download or read book Ni ihau Place Names written by John R. K. Clark and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Ni‘ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni‘ihau Place Names adds new information to the island’s history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. From 1834 to 1948, approximately 125,000 pages of Native Hawaiian expression were printed in more than 100 different newspapers. John R. K. Clark has gathered and edited a large collection of invaluable articles that recorded daily life on Niʻihau, events and topics of interest, and the island’s place names. Additionally, Keao NeSmith, a Native Hawaiian of Kaua‘i and an applied linguist, translator, and researcher fluent in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i, translated each passage into English. Most of these excerpts have not appeared in any other publication. Ni‘ihau is unique in the state of Hawai‘i because it is the only island that is entirely privately owned. In 1864, Kamehameha V, the monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, sold the island to the Sinclairs, a wealthy immigrant family looking to establish a ranching business. Descendants of the Sinclairs still own the island today. Diverse opinions about the sale of Niʻihau were published in newspapers across the Hawaiian Islands, and this book traces the development and aftershocks of that historic event. Ni‘ihau Place Names contains over thirty kanikau (dirges, poetic chants) written and published from 1845 to 1931 to honor deceased Niʻihau residents. These compositions of deep emotion are treasuries of language, history, genealogy, cultural knowledge, and especially place names. Another important contribution in this volume is the identification of ‘ōlelo no‘eau (proverbs and poetical sayings) with demonstrations of their use in everyday conversation. The book is divided into two main sections. “Ni‘ihau Place Names” is an alphabetical list of prominent place names on the island, accompanied by relevant passages in Hawaiian and their English translations. The list also includes Lehua, the small island near the northwest tip of Ni‘ihau. “Ni‘ihau History” is an additional collection of articles that includes many lesser-known place names and elucidates other topics deemed worthy by reporters and contributors of the time. Following the main text, readers will find helpful indexes of general terms, place names, and personal names.
Download or read book Niihau Shell Leis written by Linda Paik Moriarty and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the traditional Hawaiian necklaces made of seashells and explains how the necklaces are made.
Download or read book The Coming Hawaii written by Joseph King Goodrich and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Ni ihau the Last Hawaiian Island written by Ruth M. Tabrah and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Niihau Incident written by Allan Beekman and published by Heritage Pressof Pacific. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before and Beyond the Niihau Zero written by Syd Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a battle damaged Japanese Zero landed on a remote, privately owned Hawaiian island. The Zero pilot survived for almost a week on what locals call the "Forbidden Island", assisted by a local worker while terrorizing the island's population before being killed by a native Hawaiian. Though the air raid on December 7, 1941 caught many by surprise, the island's owner had actually begun preparations against the attack years earlier, inspired by a remarkably accurate prophecy. The wreckage of the Japanese plane was abandoned on the island, but it's legacy was not forgotten. Sixty five years later the Zero and the story surrounding it became part of a new aviation museum in Hawaii. The Zero display brought to the forefront what happened the day of the attack, the conflict that ensued on the island in the days that followed, while unexpectedly generating a modern controversy in the process. In researching the existence of the "Niihau Zero" the author was allowed unprecedented access to the "Forbidden Island", was able to interview its owners and inhabitants, and arrange for the Zero artifacts to be placed on public display. This book contains original reports as well as documents never before published that give unique perspectives into one of the most curious and thought provoking events of WWII.
Download or read book Geology and Ground water Resources of the Island of Niihau Hawaii written by Harold Thornton Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on the domestic water supply derived from rain caught from roofs and some ground wells. Overall, the island has high aridity, unfavorable geologic structures, continuous deposition of salt spray, and abundant authigenic salts in the lake beds.
Download or read book Aloha Niihau written by Bernice Kanahele and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Aloha Niihau preserves the linguistic integrity of the Hawaiian language and the need to document some of the stories and expressions of the Niihau people.
Download or read book A Chronicle and Flora of Niihau written by Juliet Rice Wichman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ni ihau written by Edward R. Stepien and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawaii Today written by Roscoe C. Wriston and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural History of Hawaii written by William Alanson Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Niihau written by Gavan Daws and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westernmost inhabited island of the Hawaiian islands is Niihau, separated from the larger island of Kauai by a channel seventeen and a half miles wide and twenty-five hundred feet deep. Between Kauai and its arid, low-lying neighbor, Niihau, the modern era comes to an end in deep water.
Download or read book Beaches of Kaua i and Ni ihau written by John R. K. Clark and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaua‘i has more sand beaches per mile of shoreline than any other island in Hawai‘i. Its spectacular shoreline ranges from cliffs of bird sanctuaries to a fishpond in a volcanic crater to the traditional swimming, snorkeling, surfing, and beachcombing beaches. Although the owners of Ni‘ihau discourage visitors, author John Clark includes fascinating sketches of the island to complete his inventory of Hawai‘i's beaches. The Beaches series by John R. K. Clark include Beaches of Maui County, Beaches of the Big Island, Beaches of Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau, and The Beaches of O‘ahu. The author, an ocean recreation consultant, includes comprehensive site descriptions of hundreds of beaches in the Hawaiian Islands and shares his extensive knowledge of, and deep respect for, Hawai‘i's shorelines.
Download or read book Niihau Incident written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7th, 1941, Ni'ihau faced the most unexpected event. Among the 137 islands in Hawaii, Ni'ihau was known as the forbidden, which was owned by the Robinson family. The military forces enlisted for the Pearl Harbour attack chose Ni'ihau since they believed that the island was uninhabited. Shigenori Nishikaichi was flying over the Pacific Ocean in his A6M2 Zero. The 22-year-old was accompanying the bomber planes of the second wave of the Pearl Harbour attack, which targeted the Army airfield of Bellows Field. He used his 20mm cannon and 7.7 machine guns for this. The USS Arizona was sunk. The Japanese detachment was caught by a squadron of American P-36 Hawks on their way back to the aircraft ship.However, the Japanese pilot crash landed due to the damaged fuel tank as a part of the attack. Hawila Kaleohano, discovering the Japanese plane, collected the documents from the plane and saved the pilot. As he was not very proficient in English, three of the Japanese residing there were approached. The natives were unaware of what was happening between the countries and the three Japanese people hid what they knew from the pilot. They devised a scheme to save the pilot. It all culminated in a major onslaught. Shintani and the Harada couple suffered after trying to execute their plan. Eventually, Nishikaichi was killed by Ben and his wife. Read the story of attack and betrayal.
