Pacific Islander

Teaching Activity PDFs

What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell Me: Tourism, Colonialism, and Resistance in Hawai’i

Teaching Activity. By Wayne Wah Kwai Au. 5 pages.
Lesson on the history of Hawai’i and the impact of colonization and tourism.

Asian American, Imperialism, Pacific Islander, Racism & Racial Identity, US Foreign Policy

‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change

Teaching Activity PDF. By Julie Treick O’Neill and Tim Swinehart. 16 pages.
A role play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change that asks students to develop a list of demands to present to the rest of the world at the U.N. climate change treaty meeting.

Environment & Food, Native American, Pacific Islander, Science, World History/Global Studies

Teaching Guides

Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific

Teaching Guide. Edited by Debbie Wei and Rachel Kamel. 1998. 199 pages.
Readings and teaching ideas for high school students on the Spanish-American War.

Pacific Islander, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Books: Non-Fiction

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Book – Non-fiction. By Ronald Takaki. 2008. 560 pages.
A multicultural history of America, in the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and others.

African American, Asian American, Immigration, Labor, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, Social Class

Films

Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

Film. By Na Maka o ka `Aina. 1993. 58 min.
A comprehensive documentary that focuses on the events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

Democracy & Citizenship, Pacific Islander, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands

Film. Directed by Vanessa Warheit. 2009. 60 minutes.
Documentary about U.S. colonies in the western Pacific.

Democracy & Citizenship, Imperialism, Pacific Islander, US Foreign Policy, World History/Global Studies

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