Contributors
Dawn Sueoka is the Congressional Papers Archivist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library, where she manages the papers of many of Hawaiʻi’s post-Statehood members of Congress, including the papers of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Senator Spark M. Matsunaga, Senator Hiram L. Fong, Congressman Neil Abercrombie, Congresswoman Patricia F. Saiki, and Congressman Tom Gill. Her ancestors are originally from Japan, and settled on Kauaʻi (in Kōloa and Kapaʻa) four generations ago. She feels grateful to be able to call Hawaiʻi home. She hopes that this project will inspire further participation in political processes in Hawaiʻi–through research, through activism, and through public service.
Gwen Sinclair is a librarian and Chair of the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library. She is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program. Her publications and research interests include library history, civic engagement, government secrecy, presidential executive orders and proclamations, and military history of Hawaiʻi. She is the author of the open textbook Government Information: A Reference for Librarians in Hawai‘i. Originally from Texas, she has a BA in German and received master’s degrees in geography and in library and information science from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Ellen-Rae Cachola is the Evening Supervisor & Archives Manager at the University of Hawaiʻi School of Law Library. She is also lecturer for the Department of Ethnic Studies at UH Mānoa. Ellen-Rae has experience community organizing with Women’s Voices Women Speak, Decolonial Pin@ys, and the International Women’s Network Against Militarism. Ellen-Rae’s teaching and archival work monitors the interplay between community social movements and government political practices. She earned a PhD in Information Studies, specializing in Archival Studies, from the University of California Los Angeles, a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and previous degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science. Read some of her writings in Advocating for Ourselves: Working in Underrepresented Multicultural Archives and Libraries, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, DeTours: A Decolonial Guidebook to Hawaiʻi, and Foreign Policy in Focus.
Dore Minatodani is senior librarian with the Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. The Hawaiian Collection maintains a near-comprehensive collection of published material from and about Hawaiʻi, documenting an expansive array of aspects of life in Hawaiʻi; published works are supplemented by selected archival and manuscript collections. Almost all published work referenced in this project’s site are held by the Hawaiian Collection. Dore is currently processing the Hawaiian Collection’s extensive ephemera collection, and preparing for the intake of Hawaiian Electric Co.’s recipe collection. Born in Honolulu and raised in Kāneʻohe, she has a BA and an MLIS from UH Mānoa. Her first library internship was with the Wong Audiovisual Center at Sinclair Library, working on the off-air program which selectively captures Hawaiʻi television programs.
Kyle Hart is a library research assistant and website developer at Hamilton Library, UH Maui College, and Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. He is a Hawaiʻi transplant from Turtle Island who was born on ancestral Yokuts and Chumash land. Kyle received an AA from Honolulu Community College and his BA and MA from UH Mānoa, all in Hawaiian Studies, with concentrations in Mālama ʻĀina and Kūkulu Aupuni. His family’s connection to the natural world and any specific place was forgotten many generations ago; so, here in Hawaiʻi, he works alongside his Kamaʻāina peers who have given him a community and a place to call home, to forge Kanaka futurities while rediscovering and building his own connections to ʻāina as a hoaʻāina in Hawaiʻi nei.
Kealohilani Minami joined this project as a UH Mānoa Native Hawaiian Student Services Kekaulike intern. They were born and raised on the ancestral lands of the Tongva Nation in Southern California, but their family has roots in Lāhainā, Maui. Kealohi believes the accessibility of archival documents is possible through creativity, which is what inspired them to host a workshop for the lāhui to create poetry and collages about H-3. They also reviewed material in selected archival collections, evaluated the collections’ research value with regard to our project’s topic, and identified content to use to illustrate timeline events. They worked on this project during the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters, culminating in a senior capstone project titled, “The Politics of Memory: The Implications of Settler-Colonialism in Hawai’i through an Archival Case Study on Highway H-3 Construction.” In May 2023, they graduated with a BA in Political Science from UH Mānoa and have plans to return for an MA in Library and Information Sciences and Hawaiian Studies to fulfill kuleana to rebuild their hometown of Lāhainā. Kealohi also presented her experiences to the 2023 Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Conference by facilitating participants to create art work through engaging with H-3 archival materials.
Perry Arrasmith worked as a research assistant at Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is pursuing his Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning, where he is also a Graduate Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. He previously received his B.A. in U.S. History with a minor in Government at Harvard University. His primary research interests concern (1) the intersection of political decision-making and planning and (2) the formation of the State’s political culture of planning through such events as the 1978 Constitutional Convention. Raised on Oʻahu, Arrasmith remembers riding through the Koʻolau on the roaring H-3 between school in Kāneʻohe and his childhood home in ʻAiea.
Kylee Munro is a Master’s candidate at the University of Hawai’i in the Library and Information Science program. She joined this project as part of the Hawai’i Library Association Mentorship Program. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Roanoke College.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to our colleagues at the following repositories for their assistance with this project: UHM Hamilton Library, UHM School of Law Library, Windward Community College Library, ʻUluʻulu at UH West Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi State Archives, State Historic Preservation Division Library.
We are indebted to Piliāmoʻo for their work on Ē Luku Wale Ē (Honolulu: ʻAi Pōhaku Press in association with Native Hawaiian Education Association, 2015). ĒLWĒ informed the decisions we made in expanding the scope of H-3’s history beyond what is documented in our legislative, regulatory, and judicial systems, and its detailed timeline was tremendously useful.
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