{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"For nearly two thousand years Hawaii's native people shared their labor, lands and resources!","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558/full/200%2C120/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"attribution":"University of Hawaii at Manoa Digital Image Collection","related":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31273","format":"text/html"},"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"For nearly two thousand years Hawaii's native people shared their labor, lands and resources!"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Hawaii--History--1959-"},{"label":"Creator","value":"Kelly, John"},{"label":"Format","value":"statement"},{"label":"Type","value":"Image"},{"label":"Extent","value":"2"},{"label":"Full Text","value":"FOR NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS HAWAII'S NATIVE PEOPLE SHARED THEIR LABOR, LANDS AND RESOURCES!By John KellyYES, THAT'S TRUE!   For nearly two thousand years* after their first human discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, our Hawaiian kupuna (ancestors) cooperatively shared their labor, the products of their labor, use of the land and of nature's resources!  Deep studies in most of Polynesia have revealed basically the same cooperative sharing of land, labor and resources.To many, this may seem unbelieveable when compared to today's nearly totally privatized, competitive and congested foreign-owned cement jungles in Hawai'i. ALL on lands stolen by two missionaries:   Gerritt P. Judd and William Richards who composed the deceptive 1848 Mahete  law! Nevertheless, the traditional pre-foreign Hawaiian practice of basic sharing is true and based on extensive research of land-use, language, culture, skills, tools, anthropology, archeology and other related fields of study!Moreover,   Hawai'i now has the highest cost of living in America affecting everyone here, most cruelly our deeply suffering Native Hawaiian people who have the highest death rate in America today! Hawaii's down-sliding economy is basically controlled by exploitative foreign market systems! Crowded prisons of insecure jobless workers, endless rising of symptomatic freeway congestion and social crises now affect most if not all classes and segments of the population!For example, let's compare the two pictures of Waikiki shown on the inside pages. They're separated by 141 incredible years. The left-side scene of Waikiki Beach was painted in 1857 by G. H. Burgess, an artist well known for the accuracy of his many paintings and drawings of Hawaiian scenes.   It shows the beginning of missionaries' selfish influence including requiring white gowns for all female Hawaiians to cover their breasts thereby creating a forced money market for sale of the haole-imported white cloth to half of the entire Native population!A related early haole (foreign) church steeple shows in the background on the far left and two vertical-walled (haole) buildings built for chiefs on the right.But an important Native Hawaiian scene shows in the foreground on the near left.  There an inland farmer is carrying a shoulder-pole of taro corms to share with the coastal fishing village. Just ahead of him is another pile of taro on the ground and another pile at the extreme right side on the beach. Some guess this was a form of \"trading.\"No way! After seeing Burgess' scene, deep research revealed that for nearly 2,000 years in Hawai'i the inland farmers produced twice as much taro as they needed and shared the other half with the coastal fishing villages. They, in turn, produced twice as much sea foods as they needed -- fish, lobsters, opihi, limu and many others --  and shared  the rest with the inland farmers! Both fishing and farming populations were cooperative. Each similarly created and shared extra amounts of the two most important foods for health: fish and poi, oh boy! Today we identify them as protein and starch (carbohydrates) -- the two essentials for health!The same sharing was prevalent in all other social aspects of life in pre-western Hawai'i and throughout most of Polynesia. Along with planned sharing of food, those living inland in plains and valleys helped produce tree lumber when needed for home- building, canoes and other such needs by the coastal villagers. They, in turn, shared the products of ocean skills and equipment with the inland settlements and families as needed.   Pacific studies have shown that most Polynesian peoples followed the same  practices.* The earliest discovery by archeologists of burned charcoal in human-made firepits is called \"H-l\" located at the southern tip of the Big Island. Having met the scientists there not long after their discovery, they told us that radiation testing dates that firepit at the year 124 A.D. plus or minus a hundred years. Scientists at the U.K. also believe that H-l is not the earliest human firepit they'll ever find in the islands due to the relatively few archaeological diggings taking place."}],"sequences":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current Page Order","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","viewingHint":"paged","canvases":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/canvas/p1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"54-416medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35557/full/154%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35557","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2481,"height":3225,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/annotation/p0001-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35557/full/615%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2481,"height":3225,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35557","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/canvas/p1"}]},{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/canvas/p2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"54-421medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558/full/200%2C120/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":4200,"height":2528,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/annotation/p0002-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558/full/800%2C482/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":4200,"height":2528,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35558","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31273/canvas/p2"}]}]}]}