HAWAIIANS NOT GETTING THEIR FAIR SHARE?
"Indigenous View Will Eventually Dominate," Say One Hawaiian
Honolulu Advertiser June 19, 2007
To believe that indigenous peoples will someday all become westernized is another form of Western imperialism.
Anywhere Western colonization occurs, indigenous peoples lose control of their natural resources. Once they lose control it is easy for predatory colonizers to promote their hegemony.
Hawaiians, like most indigenous people, have a sophisticated cosmogony based upon the fact that all living organisms are relative and no living organism is superior to the other.
On the other hand, contemporary Western cosmogony is based on Christian ideology — one superior white God, fused with capitalism, sustained by the exploitation of the natural resources of the Earth and the universe.
Sooner or later we must get back to the reality of life and begin to co-exist with the other species on Earth and the universe.
Until that time comes, it will be an uphill battle for survival for all Hawaiians and all indigenous people.
The United States and Western colonization will eventually become just another chapter in Hawaiian mythology.
Eric Po'ohina
Kailua, O`ahu
