HWST 107 Exam #1 – 84
Questions and answers
Oceania - -Region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
-Hōkūpa'a - -The North Star
-Kumulipo - -- Foundation of Darkness, Genealogy
- Creation chant
-'Aikapu - -The guidelines/rules in place to separate men from women
(literal translation: eat sacred).
-Mālama 'Āina - -Caring for the land
-Ali'i - -Chiefs
-Mana - -Spiritual power within oneself (& in nature).
-Papa - -- Earth mother
- Wākea's wife/sister
- Gave birth to Hawaiian Islands
-Wākea - -- Sky father
- Papa's husband/brother
- Wanted to mate with his daughter -> 'aikapu
-Pono - -- Things thrive in righteousness & balance
- All living things have male & female attributes
-Maka'āinana - -Commoners
-Ahupua'a - -Land divisions from mountain to sea.
-'Ōiwi - -Natives; people of the bones.
-Assimilation - -Process by which a person acquires the social &
psychological characteristics of the group.
-Austronesian - -Family of languages spoken in an area extending from
Madagascar to the Pacific Islands.
-Creole - -- Type of language
- Mother tongue derived from pidgin
, -Animism - -attribution of souls to non-human objects or things
-'Aumakua - -Family deities
-Kwasi - -Ghosts, rascal spirits
-Marching Rule - -Maasina Rura; an emancipation movement for self-
government/determination during/after WWII in Solomon Islands.
-Kuleana - -- Responsibility, privilege
- Relationship with a god, at death you want to be reunited with said god
- Genealogical connection
-Kumupa'a - -- Original Deities (Lono, Kāne, Ku, Kanaloa)
- Foundation, stable, fixed
-Luakini - -Temple/church, where ruling chiefs prayed & made sacrifices.
-Kākū'ai - -- To feed the gods
- Physical transformation of body to element/god
-Colonialism - -Acquiring full/partial control over another country.
-Universal Declaration of Human Rights - -Political status, economic, social,
cultural rights.
-UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - -- Indigenous people
equal to all other people
- No racism
-Interdependence - -Depend within our own island, not reliant on outside
places.
-Manu Kū - -Land bird used to sight land.
-Kū'ula - -Family guardians of prosperity; old navigators.
-Mo'okū'auhau - -Genealogies of people
-Mo'olelo - -Stories, oral literature.
-David Malo - -- Most famous Hawaiian Historian
- Writes mo'olelos
-Samuel Kamakau - -- Hawaiian Historian
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