ES 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Native Hawaiians, Indigenous Rights, U.S. Route 3

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Ethnic Studies
• Course: ES 101
• Professor: Fujiwara

Document Summary

Responding to haunani kay-trask"s notion of settler ideology. Indigenous rights are not the same as minority rights. People were brought to hawaii as indentured servants (treated harshly) As a 4th generation japanese settler in hawaii, i urge us to consider what our responsibilities are as asian americans, as settlers, to native peoples (79) Nationalist movements emerged in solidarity w/ nationalist movements abroad. We must think of the united states not as a democratic but as a colonial nation-state that has created the distinction between native and settler. (74) Native and settler are nonequivalent & incommensurable terms, & settlers cannot claim the rights to self-determination & self government specific to indigenous people. (77) Distinction between civil rights v. human rights. Civil rights (constitution) do not apply to native hawaiians. Immigrant rights or social citizenship rights are inclusion & belonging. Un declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. We grew here, you flew here sugarcane workers.