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Table of contents for Pacific Voices Talk Story · Volume I
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| Ukulele Jazz |
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William Tapia |
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Interviewed May 16-17, 2001 in
Westminister, California • Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
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“We lived on Punchbowl Street, but when we moved to Kuakini Street, and I turned seven, that's when I started with the uke.” |
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| Hula, Karate, and Sticking Together |
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Francisco Tan
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Interviewed July 12, 2001 in Vacaville, California • Birthplace: Kahuku, Hawaii
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“I threw the papers right in front of her face. 'Check 'em, if I'm a veteran!" I got pissed off, you know.” |
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| From Waipi'o into the World |
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Rozalind K. Graham |
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Interviewed on June 29, 2001 in Vacaville, California • Birthplace: Hamakua, Hawaii
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“I could go to Kohala Girls' Seminary because my father had the poi contract with the Parker Ranch.”
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| Hula, Karate, and Sticking Together |
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Julia Tan |
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Interviewed July 12, 2001 in Vacaville, California • Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
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“When you take hula lessons, all the ones in school have to pass, and they have graduation day for you, what they called
'uniki.”
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| The True Fa'a Samoa |
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Ba-Maurie Tauoa-Tolai
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Interviewed July 23, 2001 in San Francisco, California • Birthplace: Papua New Guinea
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“That's why we came to America, to learn. Still, we have the Samoan way come with us.”
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| Hub of the South Pacific |
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Nicholas F. King |
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Interviewed May 28, 2001 in Fagatogo, American Samoa • Birthplace: Fagatogo, American Samoa
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“When everything was over the side, and there was enough floating for everybody to hang on to, Captain Milikini ordered, 'Abandon ship!' ”
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| Hula, Karate, and Sticking Together |
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Valerie LeiMomi Wheeler |
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Interviewed July 12, 2001 in Vacaville, California • Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
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“Here I am, trying to pick up the Hawaiian language, but there's history I need to learn first. This is what I'm struggling with.”
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| Hula, Karate, and Sticking Together |
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Theresa Haunani Schneider
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Interviewed July 12, 2001 in Vacaville, California • Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
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“Back then, in 1960, you were either White or you were Black. Very few Chicanos went to our school.
I think that's why we were known. We were Hawaiian.”
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| Coming-Out Fa'afafine |
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Dan Taulapapa McMullin |
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Interviewed July 3, 2001 in Oakland, California • Birthplace: Sendai, Japan
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| “I was coming-out as a gay man, as a writer, and as a Samoan. All three were interconnected.”
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| This Skin Color, This Nose,
This Hair, These Huge Bones |
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John Tunui |
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Interviewed June 26, 2001 in
San Francisco, California • Birthplace: Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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“In Cook Islands and, I believe, Samoa, too, there is a practice stemming from this whole idea of the extended family when, to use a harsh phrase, you trade-off your children.”
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| A Space for
Tongan-American Sisterhood |
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Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
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Interviewed July 4, 2001 in San Francisco, California • Birthplace: Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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“We don't believe in just any kind of Pacific Islander representation, because many representations of us in the mainstream are negative; most are detrimental and hurt us, furthering our oppression.”
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| Hafa Adai in Academe |
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Jay Aromin |
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Interviewed July 3, 2001 in Daly City, California • Birthplace: San Francisco, California
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| “At that young stage, we found out how to play the political game; we had to because there was really nothing on campus that Pacific Islanders could relate to.”
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A Film-Maker for Pacific Islanders |
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Amelia Niumeitolu |
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nterviewed July 4, 2001 in San Francisco, California • Birthplace: Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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“The first time I went back to Tonga was on a film-internship when I was twenty-one. It was like, I'm home, and I didn't have to explain myself, how I looked, or how I felt.”
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Between Connie Chung
and "The Rock" |
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Alofagia Vaita |
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Interviewed May 17, 2001 in Orange, California • Birthplace: West Point, New York
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“She can talk to her mother about anything and about her feelings. I think that's where she has an advantage over me, because she can let it all out to her Mom.”
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ISBN:0-615-11924-7
ISSN: 1537-0992
Volume I 266 pp, perfect bound.
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