Mai Paʻa I Ka Leo: Historical Voice in Hawaiian Primary Materials, Looking Forward and Listening Back (SC) ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi ISBN: 9781581780475

ISBN: 9781581780475

Date of Publication: 1990

Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 11

Review of Paratella Melichar and Taparella Medler in New Guinea

Mai Paʻa I Ka Leo: Historical Voice in Hawaiian Primary Materials, Looking Forward and Listening Back (SC) ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi ISBN: 9781581780475In just over a century, from 1834 to 1948, Hawaiian writers filled 125,000 pages in nearly 100 different newspapers with their writings. The contents of those papers span a period when noted historians, expert genealogists, skilled storytellers, and cultural specialists were numerous, and their knowledge was intentionally recorded in writing for their contemporaries and for generations of the future. Though scholars have generated entire books of