Haunani-Kay Trask

Haunani-Kay Trask was Professor Emerita at the University of Hawai’i. Professor Trask was a pivotal intellectual figure among Native Hawaiian people over the past four decades, demonstrating the importance of critical analysis and creativity to forging a more just future for Indigenous peoples. Her book From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i (1993) remains a classic of Indigenous political thought. She was founding director of the School of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i, (the only school of Indigenous studies at a research 1 institution in the U.S.) and founded Ka Lahui Hawai’i, the largest grassroots group in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.