{"id":20726,"date":"2013-10-31T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:59:32","slug":"author-shares-new-perspectives-about-kalaupapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/31\/author-shares-new-perspectives-about-kalaupapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Author shares new perspectives about Kalaupapa"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Anwei Skinsnes Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa Library<\/a> presents a lecture by award-winning 东精影业<\/abbr> Press<\/a> author Anwei Skinsnes Law on “New Perspectives on the History of Kalaupapa” in Hamilton Library Room 301 on Thursday, November 7, 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Law, a 东精影业<\/abbr> graduate, has been researching the history of Kalaupapa for more than 40 years. She has conducted oral history interviews with many Kalaupapa residents and family members and produced books and documentaries on various aspects of the history. Her most recent book, Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory<\/a><\/em> published by 东精影业<\/abbr> Press, was named the winner of the 2013 Samuel M. Kamakau Award as Book of the Year by the Hawaiʻi<\/span> Book Publishers Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

View the historical exhibit, A Source of Light, Constant and Never-Fading<\/em><\/a>, developed by Ka ʻohana<\/span> O Kalaupapa, on the 1st floor of Hamilton Library following the lecture.<\/p>\n

More on Kalaupapa<\/h2>\n

Between 1866 and 1969, an estimated 8,000 people were taken from their families and places of birth, and sent to Kalaupapa because of Hawaiʻi<\/span>’s Hansen’s disease or leprosy isolation policies. About 5,200 of these individuals were sent to Kalaupapa prior to the annexation of Hawaiʻi<\/span> by the United States and approximately 97 percent of them were Native Hawaiian.<\/p>\n

Members of the royal family were deeply moved by the situation facing so many of their “beloved people” who were diagnosed with leprosy. They visited Kalaupapa, read petitions, wrote letters, mourned friends who had been taken from their midst and did what they could to make life better for those impacted by the disease. Leprosy was a very real presence in their lives.<\/p>\n

—A 东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning 东精影业<\/abbr> Press author Anwei Skinsnes Law on presents New Perspectives on the History of Kalaupapa talk at the 东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33,207,9],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaiian","tag-library","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151743,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/151743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}