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+ Hawaiians in Los Angeles Lessa Kananiopua Pelayo -Lozada Childrens Librarian Glendale Public Library + History of Native Hawaiians Members of the Kuhia family are pictured celebrating Jubilee, a celebration of the Hukilau in Laie on


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Hawaiians in Los Angeles

Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada Children’s Librarian Glendale Public Library

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+ History of Native Hawaiians

Members of the Kuhia family are pictured celebrating Jubilee, a celebration of the Hukilau in La’ie on O’ahu

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+ Archiving a Divided Community

 Western Methods:

 Museums  Written records

Versus

 Traditional Methods:

 Oral History  Talking Story

1970s – Continent Born-Native Hawaiian baby and his mother in Gardena, California

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Collecting Images & Stories for HILA and beyond

 Encourage self-archiving in the mode the individual is most

comfortable with

 Try to respect the ideas of change and loss in a changing

community

1957 Native Hawaiians enjoying Disneyland

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+ Archiving a Community’s History

without an Archivist

 Making connections  Making people comfortable  Recognizing the

interconnectedness of the community

1972 Joe Keawe and the first Miss Voice of Hawai’i being presenting an Aloha Short to the City of Los Angeles

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+ Defining Hawaiianness

 Native Hawaiians

 Anyone who can trace their ancestry back to the arrival of

Captain Cook in 1778

 Locals

 Anyone born and raised in Hawai’i

 Hawaiians at Heart

 Those without Hawaiian blood and those not born in Hawai’I

who have been touched by the culture and want to help perpetuate it

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+ Archiving a Community’s History

without an Archivist – The Process

 Making people comfortable

 Videos of Oral Histories  Listened  Email  Scanners

 Creating a digital family history  Inclusion  Bibliography  Glossary  Double checking for accuracy

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+ The Big Picture

 Community Response  Diversity  Future Preservation