Kalaupapa : a collective memory /

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Between 1866 and 1969, an estimated 8,000 individuals--at least 90 percent of whom were Native Hawaiians--were sent to Molokai's remote Kalaupapa peninsula because they were believed to have leprosy. Unwilling to accept the loss of their families, homes, and citizenship, these individuals ensur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Law, Anwei Skinsnes
Other Authors: Punikaiʻa, Bernard Kaʻowakaokalani
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2012.
©2012
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Leprosy > Patients > Hawaii > Kalaupapa > Social conditions.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Leprosy > Patients > Social conditions
Kalaupapa (Hawaii) > History.
Hawaii > Kalaupapa
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. What shall be done? : (1866-1883)
  • part II. What is proper and just? : (1884-1901)
  • part III. From generation to generation (1902-1929)
  • part IV. A time of evolution (1930-1945)
  • part V. To see this place stay sacred (1946-present).

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