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3 Haw. J.L. & Pol. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/hawjolp3 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S NOTE

The past will offer up what needs to be known as long as it is
respected and not manipulated by careless, misguided but often
well-meaning polemical blasts from ego-driven scholars who
place contemporary agendas before those of the historical
actors themselves. - Kanalu Young
George Terry Kanalu Young offered up these words of insight on
observations he made about the political use of history in Hawai'i in his
article from the second volume of the Hawaiian Journal of Law and
Politics (HJLP) entitled Kuleana: Toward a Historiography of Hawaiian
National Consciousness, 1778 - 2001. Kanalu, as he was known, called
for the analysis, development, and deployment of a Hawaiian national
consciousness through careful engagement with the sources left behind by
our kupuna,2 and he proposed methods and ethics for these types of
endeavors, which he noted were not a part of the developing canon of the
day on Hawaiian history and politics.
Kanalu was the founding faculty advisor for the Hawaiian Society of Law
and Politics (HSLP) that was started up in October 2003 at the University
of Hawai'i at Manoa by Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian graduate and
undergraduate students from across different disciplines. As the advisor,
Kanalu served as mentor to a group of students undertaking lines of
inquiry that engaged or incorporated the facts surrounding the continuity
of the Hawaiian Kingdom nation-state. These lines of inquiry were met
with great skepticism at the time in all of the major disciplines where other
Hawaiian faculty were housed including, law, Hawaiian studies, and
political science. Kanalu worked to understand and then incorporate the
Hawaiian Kingdom into his own writings and teachings on history and
politics by first participating in a dual undergraduate/graduate class with
many of the HSLP members entitled Introduction to the Hawaiian State,
put on by Kawika Tengan and taught by Keanu Sai. As the faculty advisor
and a presenter, Kanalu took part in the 1st Annual Symposium of HSLP
held at the Imin International Conference Center to great community
reception in 2005. He then forefronted the Hawaiian Kingdom line of
inquiry into his own work as a professor, teaching an advanced graduate
level class called Seminar on the History of Hawaiian Kingdom Law,
and he created and implemented a still standing permanent class HWST
691 Kukulu Aupuni: Sovereign Hawaiian State, Domestic Kingdom Law,
Governance and Politics.
1 Kanalu Young, Kuleana: Toward a Historiography of Hawaiian National
Consciousness, 178 - 2001 Hawaiian Journal ofLaw and Politics, 2 (2006): 30.

2 Kupuna in the Hawaiian language is plural for ancestors.

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