Project Type: 2022

King Kalākahua (David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u Mahinulani
Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani)

Photo by James J. Williams. Hawaii State Archives. Call Number: PPWD-15-4.018 Native Hawaiian, Music, Dance, Cultural Activism King Kalākahua (David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u MahinulaniNalaiaehuokalani Lumialani) (1836-1891) King Kalākaua reaffirmed Hawai`i’s sovereignty through advancing the island country’s international profile and promoting Hawaiian cultural revitalization after decades of suppression. Born David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani, King Kalākaua …

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Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani) Read More »

Frederick Douglass

Photo ca. 1879. National Archives, Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862–1884. NAID: 558770, War and Conflict Number 113. African American, Autoethnography Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Enslaved from birth, Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818 to an enslaved …

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft or Bamewawagezhikaquay, photographer unknown, photograph from 1860, Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan, Johnson Family Papers. Native American (Anishinaabe), Ethnography, Literature Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) (1800-1842) Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first published Indigenous poet from the United States, the first known poet to write in a Native American language, and the …

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