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by Center for Oral History
The Center for Oral History (COH) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in the Department of Ethnic Studies, was established in 1976 by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature. COH gathers the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi's role in the globalizing world.Experience: Hawaiʻi Life Histories is our first podcast series in partnership withHawaiʻi Public Radio and Hawaii Council for the Humanities featuring excerpts from our archive of over 800 interviews with Hawaiʻi women and men.Disclaimer: We do not represent the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. All thoughts presented here are of our own volition.
Episodes
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Weaving Voices: Historic Kōloa Today
Like other plantation communities, Kōloa’s sugar production and plantation camps have no faded into memory, but the diverse cultures they brought together still remain. Annually, longtime and newer Kōloa and Poʻipū residents honored their rich heritage with the Kōloa Plantation Days celebration...
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Weaving Voices: Visionary Women in Politics and Education
As educators, women have played a leading role in shaping the minds of the youth of our nation. For some, teaching has led to even larger leadership roles in government, including elected office. We celebrate and reflect on the impact of some of the earliest elected and influential women in...
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Weaving Voices: Memories and Futures of Waialua
As plantations began to phase out in Hawaiʻi, these oral histories were collected to document the way of life in our plantation and rural communities and offer insight into the daily life of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Peurto Rican communities of Waialua in the early 20th...
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Weaving Voices: Stopped the Bombing 30th Anniversary Kahoʻolawe Aloha ʻĀina
On October 22, 1990, President George H.W. Bush ordered the Secretary of" Defense to stop bombing Kaho'olawe. In this event, first-generation oral histories will weave together with rising generation perspectives. Together we reflect on the Aloha ʻĀina movement that mobilized thousands across the...
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Weaving Voices: Looking to Our Past for New Political Visions
Using oral histories from the Center for Oral History archive, we revisit the era of economic change from plantations to tourism, and political change with the return of AJAs [Americans of Japanese Ancestry] and rise of the Democratic Party in the 1950s. In those times of tumult, new political...
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Weaving Voices: Pālama Settlement
“This opportunity changed lives for young people.” A place for kids to go. Meals and hot showers. Community services. From its beginnings, Pālama Settlement has been a critical place of healing and recovery, for many communities in transition. What are the kinds of things that really make a...
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Ka Poʻe Kau Lei: Hawaiʻis Lei Sellers Now & Then
Inspirational personal stories, in their own voices, from the Center for Oral History archive, about lei sellers from the boat days down at the pier through the grass shacks and now lei stands at the airport.
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Hawaiʻi's Shopkeepers: From the Plantation to ABC
Inspirational personal stories, in their own voices, from the Center for Oral History archive, about Pāʻia and Puʻunēnē, Maui, plantation store owners from the 30s-40s and the success of Sidney Kosasa who founded ABC stores.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Center for Oral History (COH) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in the Department of Ethnic Studies, was established in 1976 by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature. COH gathers the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi's role in the globalizing world.Experience: Hawaiʻi Life Histories is our first podcast series in partnership withHawaiʻi Public Radio and Hawaii Council for the Humanities featuring excerpts from our archive of over 800 interviews with Hawaiʻi women and men.Disclaimer: We do not represent the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. All thoughts presented here are of our own volition.
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