Front Cover: Hawai‘i’s first territorial legislature, convened 21 January 1901, was headed by the native-led ‘Ao‘ao Kū‘oko‘a Home-Rula (Independent Home-Rule Party.) The party, a merger of the political organizations Hui Hawai‘i Aloha ‘Āina and Hui Kālai‘āina, was led by highly respected and experienced native leaders from around the islands, including Lāhainā lawyer and former Hawaiian Kingdom legislator, William Pūnohu White; Lāhainā church trustee and Hui Aloha ‘Āina delegate Ramon Hoe Makekau (bottom left); and Moloka‘i cultural expert and member of the first graduating class at the Kamehameha School for Boys, Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Jr. (bottom right).

William Pūnohu White, (top center) ca. 1890s; photographer unknown. Bishop Museum.

Ramon Hoe Makekau, ca. 1890s. Courtesy of the Hawai‘i State Archives.

Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Jr., 1904. Photographer J.J. Williams, Bishop Museum.

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John Clark
Author, University of Hawai'i Press

Linda K. Menton
Professor of Education Emerita
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

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DeSoto Brown
Historian, Bishop Museum Archives

Thomas S. Dye,
T. S. Dye & Collegues, Archaeologists, Inc.

Emily A. Hawkins
Associate Profesor of Hawaiian Language (retired),
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Kerri A. Inglis
Associate Professor of History,
University of Hawai'i at Hilo

Carol MacLennan
Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Michigan Technical University

Michael E. Macmillan
Publications Manager, Center for Korean Studies,
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Holly McEldowney
Archaeologist, Division of State Parks,
Hawai'i State Department of Land and Natural Resources

Nancy J. Morris
Curator Emerita, Jean Carlot Collection,
Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

M. Puakea Nogelmeier
Associate Professor,
Hawaiin Language, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Amy K. Stillman
Associate Professor of Music and American Culture,
University of Michigan

Book Review Editor and Bibliographer

Jodie Mattos
Librarian, Hawaiin Collection, Hamilton Library,
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

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