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Native Hawaiian Educator and Activist Haunani-Kay Trask Dies
Anita Hofschneider | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Haunani-Kay Trask, indigenous poet, author, scholar and teacher, a staunch advocate for her Native Hawaiian community, died in Honolulu today at age 71. Trask was known for her powerful speaking and persistent advocacy, her Hawaiian nationalism, and her writings. “We are not American!” she told a crowd on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. “We will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!” RIP
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