Emma Nakuina & the Preservation of Hawaiian Culture

Uluwehi Hopkins, Doctoral Candidate, History Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents an online talk about Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina: teacher, historian, museum curator, water commissioner and judge in an era when women were discouraged from holding positions of authority.
The first child of a high-born Hawaiian chiefess and an American sugar planter, Nakuina lived through six monarchs and five governments. Neither queen nor a commoner, but somewhere in the middle, she was a kaukau aliʻi.
The talk is followed by a Question & Answer session with the presenter.