Source: Engraving by G. Langlume after color litho by Louis Choris (1822) in "Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde" by Dumont d'Urville and Jules-Sébastien-César (1834-35).
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- qaguang
- Vincent has been a director and stage manager for over twenty years. Vince has worked in many types of theater, including musical theater, opera, Native theater, and touring theatre, including tours to international festivals in Hong Kong, and Edinburgh, Scotland. He even directed at the South Pole, Antarctica! Vincent is currently a producer of Native theater and performing arts at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He has most recently directed a reading of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Toronto at Dreamer's Rock. Vincent has a BA in Theater and Speech from DeSales University, an MFA in Directing for the Theater from Wayne State University, and an MA in Christianity and Culture from Gonzaga University.
HRM Queen Ka'ahumanu was the favourite wife of Kamehameha I, "the Great". The queen depicted in the film "Hawaii", produced from the James Michener novel is based on her. Therein, she remained loyal to her heritage by having her brother-husband (a chieftain) to bury her bones in Tahiti (the Motherland)"in the old way...so that (the Hawaiian gods) would know she loved them too". The last queen of Hawaii, HRM Queen Liliuokalani, was deposed my the powerful haole business class that had become the usurpers of the islands. Like several characters opined in the film (with a timeline preceding her ascension and overthrow), that people who came to Hawaii to promote Christianity did very well for themselves in terms of their land grab and mercantile interests. That mirrored the decimation of many cultures in the Americas and the Third World over the centuries.
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