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Haunani-Kay Trask, Champion of Native Rights in Hawaii, Dies at 71 She helped found the field of Hawaiian studies and pressed for Indigenous sovereignty. “We will die as Hawaiians,” she said. “We will never be Americans.” Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not sweet, and I do not want any more tourists in Hawaii,” she said.Credit...Kapulani Landgraf By Annabelle Williams July 9, 2021Updated 9:05 p.m. ET Haunani-Kay Trask, a scholar, poet and champion of sove...
Native Hawaiian Educator And Activist Haunani-Kay Trask Dies - Honolulu Civil Beat The Indigenous poet, author, scholar and teacher died in Honolulu at age 71. Reading time: 3 minutes. Haunani-Kay Trask, a staunch advocate for her Native Hawaiian community, died in Honolulu early Saturday morning at age 71. Trask was known for her powerful speaking and persistent advocacy on behalf of the Native Hawaiian community, her nationalism and her writings. “We are not American!” she told a crowd in 1993 in front of Iolani Palace on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian K...
Haunani-Kay Trask (Photo credit: Kapulani Landgraf) Hearts are heavy across Hawaiʻi and the world as many mourn the death of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Emerita Haunani-Kay Trask. Loved ones confirmed the exemplary Native Hawaiian scholar died on Saturday, July 3. Trask who retired in 2010, started her extensive academic career at UH Mānoa in 1981 as an assistant professor in the American studies department with expertise in feminist theory and Indigenous studies. She is credited with co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian studies and went on to become the foundin...