The Kamakas of Waikane (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548271763)

Vendor: David Cooper
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Kamakas of Waikane

$7.93

The Kamakas of Waikane

$7.93
Format: Paperback
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This is a powerful story of the Kamaka family of Waikane, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, principally of the dynamic twelve siblings who lived between 1898 and 1994. And there are excursions of the story that touches on the next generation of Native Hawaiians who were hapa children, some of whom went on to live productive lives while a very few did not, but all of whom were privileged to spend their formative years in Waikane. The narrative records the remembrances of incredible people with social, political and economic commentary on the challenges of the times. But it is foremost a story of the amazing Kamaka generation of Native Hawaiians, and those Native Hawaiians of their time, who are the last of genuine Native Hawaiians who lived their culture, spoke their language and cherished their traditions. It is a story that cannot go unrecorded.

Author: David Cooper
ISBN-10: 1548271764
ISBN-13: 9781548271763
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2017
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d
By David Cooper
By David Cooper
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The author, along with two brothers and three sisters, children of Robert Lewis and Lucy Kapaeloa Kamaka Cooper, was raised in Waikane, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Educated in Hawaii and at universities on the mainland, the author is indebted to his parents who were the role models of Aloha and to his siblings who were always at his side providing unconditional love. Raised during the Territory period and entering young adulthood at the time of Statehood, the author nor his siblings realized that they were hapa children for everyone in Hawaii seemed to be hapa as well. His mother, Native Hawaiian, and his father, Irish-English from Irwin, Tennessee, taught us to be respectful of everyone. Married to a beautiful Japanese American, Katherine Arakaki, they together raised three exceptional sons in all parts of the world. Thus, enriched by the experiences of their many travels, the author's first book is a salute to the culture, language and traditions of being a Native Hawaiian.

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