TY - BOOK ID - 137033447 TI - The queen and I AU - Iaukea, Sydney L AU - ʻIaukea, Curtis Piʻehu PY - 2012 SN - 128329186X 9786613291868 0520950305 9780520950306 0520270665 9780520270664 9781283291866 9780520270664 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Hawaiians KW - Government relations. KW - Land tenure. KW - ʻIaukea, Curtis Piʻehu, KW - Liliuokalani, KW - Friends and associates. KW - Hawaii KW - History KW - Annexation to the United States. KW - Iaukea, Curtis Piehu, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137033447 AB - In this exposé Sydney L. Iaukea ties personal memories to newly procured political information about Hawai`i's crucial Territorial era. Spurred by questions surrounding intergenerational property disputes in her immediate family, she delves into Hawai`i's historical archives. There she discovers the central role played by her great-great-grandfather in the politics of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hawai`i-in particular, Curtis P. Iaukea's trusted position with the Hawaiian Kingdom's last ruling monarch, Queen Lili`uokalani. As Iaukea charts her ancestor's efforts to defend a culture under siege, she reveals astonishing legal and legislative maneuvers that show us how capitalism reshaped cultural relationships. She finds resonant parallels and connections between her own upbringing in Maui's housing projects, her family's penchant for hiding property, and the Hawaiian peoples' loss of their country and lands. ER -