Haunani-Kay Trask was an educator and political activist who spoke and wrote about the theft of Hawai‘i and the abuse of Native Hawaiian rights.
Her poetry is quite powerful and often deals with themes of being colonized.
Through HathiTrust, we have temporary (COVID “emergency”) online access to two of her books of poetry:
From the HathiTrust book page, click on Check Out:
You’ll get renewable hours with the books. Return it early, when you’re done, so others can read the title:
(Once we are out of HathiTrust’s COVID emergency access status in August, all of her books will be available to you in print from the UHMC library.)
For those interested in Haunani-Kay Trask’s nonfiction, the highly-regarded From a Native Daughter: From Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i is available to read online, through EBSCO ebooks. Kūʻē: Thirty Years of Land Struggle in Hawaiʻi (a powerful visual representation of the fight for Indigenous rights in Hawai‘i) is available in print from the library (get the call number and book status here).
And, if you do a search for Haunani-Kay Trask in our catalog (Primo), you’ll find articles she wrote and literary reviews of her work.