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Leaving paradise : Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 / Jean Barman and Bruce McIntyre Watson.

Barman, Jean, 1939- (Author). Watson, Bruce McIntyre. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States." "Scholars and others interested in a number of fields - Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies - will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780824829438
ISBN: 0824829433
ISBN: 9780824892784
ISBN: 082489278X
Physical Description: xiii, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-489) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Leaving paradise -- Maritime sojourners -- The astoria adventure -- In the service of the Hudsons Bay Company -- Making a life in the fur trade -- Hawaiians in the missionary advance -- Boundary making -- North of the 49th parallel -- Moving across the generations -- Hawaiians and other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest.