Biography of Samuel Kamakau
Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau is best remembered as the Native historian who chronicled the years of transition when Hawaii and Hawaiians first stepped into the turbulent nineteenth century. Born into a time (10/29/1815) when many foreign influences were reshaping Hawai'i, he was raised as a child greatly influenced by his elders, priests from Kaua'i and O'ahu who influenced the young Kamakau with an understanding of traditional Hawaiian ways. As a young man, he was one of the early graduates of Lahainaluna Seminary, where he recieved a Western education. After being educated at Lahainaluna, Kamakau was committed to recording the history of the Hawaiian people.
While he was residing at Lahainaluna, Kamakau was an assistant to the missionary translators of the Bible. In 1842, he initiated his own career as a writer and historian when his first published article, genealogy of chiefs appeared in the Hawaiian language paper, Ka Nonanona. He was critisized by his elders, but her defended his work by saying that departed genealogists ever came back to life, they would rejoice in his labors because these genealogies were being recorded, saved and shared.
In 1841, he helped to form the Royal Hawaiian Historical Society. Two important works written by him which is still in use today is The Ruling Chiefs of Hawai'i and Ka Po'e Kahiko: The People of Old.
Samuel M. Kamakau is a Lahainaluna graduate and scholar whose very important works are still in use today. We honor his legacy by naming Lahainaluna's library after him.
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Bibliography
Chun, Malcolm Naea. Na Kukui Pio 'Ole: The Inextinguishable Torches. Honolulu, Hawaii: First People's Productions, 1993.
Day, A. Grove. History Makers of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Publishing of Honolulu, 1984.
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