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Living Aloha: Portraits of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, and Resistance Camilla G Antioch University AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive Student & Alumni Scholarship, including Dissertations & Theses Dissertations & Theses 2015 Living Aloha: Portraits of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, and Resistance Camilla G. Wengler Vignoe Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change Follow this and additional works at: http://aura.antioch.edu/etds Part of the American Studies Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Hawaiian Studies Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, Multicultural Psychology Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Psychology Commons, and the Sociology of Culture Commons Recommended Citation Vignoe, Camilla G. Wengler, "Living Aloha: Portraits of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, and Resistance" (2015). Dissertations & Theses. 204. http://aura.antioch.edu/etds/204 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student & Alumni Scholarship, including Dissertations & Theses at AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations & Theses by an authorized administrator of AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. LIVING ALOHA: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE, RENEWAL, RECLAMATION, AND RESISTANCE CAMILLA G. WENGLER VIGNOE A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change Program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May, 2015 This is to certify that the Dissertation entitled: LIVING ALOHA: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE, RENEWAL, RECLAMTION, AND RESISTANCE prepared by Camilla G. Vignoe is approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership and Change. Approved by: Carolyn B. Kenny, Ph.D., Chair date Lize Booysen, DBL, Committee Member date Peter Hanohano, Jr., Ph.D., Committee Member date Maenette Ah Nee-Benham, Ph.D., External Reader date Copyright 2015 Camilla G. Vignoe All rights reserved Acknowledgements It is with eternal gratitude that I thank Carolyn Kenny, my committee chair, faculty advisor, and mentor. Mahalo piha for your wisdom, guidance, and nurturing support for me as well as all the students in the Ph.D. in Leadership program—past and present. You are a beam of goodness and light! Your extraordinary dedication to your students is unprecedented. Thank you Aunty Carolyn, for believing in me, for encouraging me to trust my intuition, for helping me to honor the shy inner artist inside, and for seeing me through this dissertation. Your kindness, incredible generosity, and Native Spirit have made this journey a healing one for me. Dr. Peter Hanohano, Jr., Dr. Lize Booysen, and Dr. Maenette Ah Nee-Benham, thank you for serving on my committee, and offering me your expert knowledge, guidance, and feedback. I have learned so very much from each one of you. Thank you Deb Baldwin, our Librarian, for your talent and expertise, the incredible Ph.D. in Leadership faculty and staff, and my editors Alexia Currie and Jayne Alexandre. I couln’t have completed this journey without you. To my participants, keiki ‘o ka ʻāina living far away from our beloved Hawai‘i nui who live each day with Aloha, mahalo to each of you for allowing me to share your heartfelt, courageous journey. Hopefully your stories will inspire dislocated Hawaiians and others who read this dissertation to continue to mālama each other, mālama ‘āina, mālama kūpuna, mālama keiki, and to honor who they are and where they come from. To the C-6ers, my writing partners and friends forever Naomi Nightingale, Janet Bell, and Norman Dale for your hours of consult and continued support in seeing me through the finish line; Wayne, Martha, Rick and Angel, for your friendship and all the resources you shared. Mahalo to my dear ‘ohana, starting with my incredible husband Dave! No way could I have done this work without your help! I am blessed to have the best family in the world! You i are so very precious to me: Aunty Paulie, Uncle Stan, Ka ‘Ohana Wengler, Suganuma, Akiona, Yuen, Flagg, and Vignoe, all the nieces and nephews. A special mahalo to Robi and Dad for a peaceful place to stay, Fay for a vehicle to get around in, and the entire ‘ohana for the ono kaukau you lovingly prepared for me every time I came home to research. Me ke aloha pumehana for the countless hours of patience and wisdom my cultural experts Uncle Teenie, Uncle Peter, Ka‘umi, Kealoha, Na‘alehu, and James Vegas you gave so generously; Aunty Pat, Aunty Dodie and Uncle Sean … I am humbled by your individual and collective knowledge. Aloha to the Lindseys, especially Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa. My adopted ‘ohana, how do I begin to thank you for helping me find my way back home? Your unwavering Aloha and giving spirit is beyond measure. Bonnie Chavez, my dear professor and mentor at Santa Barbara City College, I am so grateful for the hope and inspiration you sparked in me over 20 years ago. You believed in me when I had failed in college so many times before … On behalf of the thousands of students whose lives are better and whose careers flourish because you gave us hope . Thanks. Angelita, my dear kumu, mentor and friend, you are appreciated beyond words, for providing hula as a grounding mechanism and vehicle for my personal transformation. Mahalo Hula Anyone; Sandy, Mona, and Na Mele ‘o ke Kai; to Welmoet Glover (Moet Photography) and Derrek Miyahara (Island Digital Imaging) for the beautiful pictures! Your incredible talent, eye for capturing beauty and generous makana are timeless; you are appreciated beyond the depths of my heart. Mahalo piha to the Maoli artists whose heart-felt lyrics and music featured in this paper inspire me to no end. ii Thank you Chris and my co-workers at SBCC for generously giving me time off to complete this work; thanks to our extended family, friends, and communities of support in Santa Barbara, Hawai‘i, Vermont, and New England for contributing to my success. Mahalo Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop for the Kamehameha Schools, for selflessly giving scholarship and a world-class education to your children, the keiki ‘o ka ʻāina. We love you dearly. Finally, thank you Heavenly Father for the incredible gifts you’ve given me! To my guardian angels for protecting me, and to St. Jude, my very powerful and patron saint, for helping me during my hours of desperation. Mahalo Tutu, for your invaluable contributions of ʻōlelo Hawai‘i for all of us to enjoy; our lovely culture of Aloha would have vanished had you not had the courage, wisdom, and foresight to do your work. Eternally grateful to you Grandma, Grandpa, and Mom for your visits and guidance from heaven … and my dear ‘aumākua, for re-kindling the warrior spirit within in me, for challenging me, and even trusting me to do this work! What an incredible success team I have! Your endless love knows no bounds. Dedication To all the keiki ‘o ka ʻāina in Hawai‘i, and wherever you are in the world. May you discover your special birthright and responsibility, our legacy of Aloha to cherish and pass forward. This dissertation is also dedicated to my dearest kūpuna and mākua who have passed away on my Ph.D. journey: iii Great-grandmother Tūtū Mary Kawena Pukui (1895–1986) on her 90th birthday. Grandparents—Faith “Lottie” Charlotte Kalama Wiggin Ukishima (1915–2007) and Edwin Osamu Ukishima (1917–1993). Photo from the Wengler / Ukishima Family album. Mom—Charlotte Patrice Hideko Kalʻāmanamana Ukishima Wengler (1937–2010); photo courtesy of the Wengler Family album. Reverend Joseph M. Vignoe “Uncle Joe” (1930–2010). Father-in-law Robert “Bobby” F. Vignoe (1932–2014). Photos courtesy of the Vignoe Family album. iv “Dad Lindsey” Edwin Robert Naleilehua Lindsey Jr. (1939–2009); photo courtesy of the Lindsey ‘Ohana album. (http://www.mauiculturallands.org) Abstract When Native Hawaiians move away from the islands, they risk losing their cultural identity and heritage. This dissertation utilizes a Hawaiian theoretical framework based in Indigenous research practices and uses phenomenology, ethnography, heuristics, and portraiture to tell the stories of leadership, change, and resilience of five Native Hawaiians who as adults, chose to permanently relocate to the United States mainland. It explores the reasons why Kanaka Maoli (politically correct term for Native Hawaiians) leave the ʻāina (land; that which feeds) in the first place and eventually become permanent mainland residents. Some Hawaiians lose their culture after relocating to the United States mainland, giving in to societal pressures demanding conformance, assimilation, and acculturation. Some who have lost their cultural identity are able to later regain it, yet others, resilient, found a way to retain their cultural identity despite the traumatic transition. This study focuses on those who have retained or regained their Native Hawaiian identity after relocating to the United States mainland, and questions, “What caused them to relocate?” and “How do they maintain cultural practices far away from the ʻāina?” I begin by situating myself as the researcher, review the literature, offer an historical chronology of events that occurred in Hawai‘i, and explain the research methodology. Four Native v Hawaiians who have relocated to the mainland United States as adults and have continued Native Hawaiian cultural practices were interviewed. I painted their individual portraits as well as my own—using the art and science of portraiture—which includes aesthetic writing that focuses on the “good” that is found in within context. I constructed the portraits with data from the interviews, observations, pictures, music, poetic sayings, video clips, sound bites, and my own reflections. The phenomenon of “walking in two worlds” is explored. This study provides examples of leadership in portraying how Native Hawaiians perpetuate ʻōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language, poems, songs), mo‘olelo (stories, myths, folklore), moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy), hula (Hawaiian dance), and many other cultural practices far away from home.
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