Joseph Nawahi
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Joseph Kahoʻoluhi Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu (b. Puna, Island of Hawaii, 1842; d. 1896) was a Native Hawaiian legislator, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and painter.
As a young man, he studied with Christian missionaries. He later became a member of the Hawaiian legislature, serving for 20 years (1872-1892), and was a member of the cabinet of Queen Liliuokalani (Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1892). He was one of the electors who made Lunalilo king. He was also the President of the Hawaiian Patriotic League and opposed the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.
Nāwahī operated Ka Nūpepa Kūʻokoʻa, a Hawaiian nationalist newspaper.
He was married to Emma ‘Aima Aiʻi Nāwahī. He was the first Hawaiian-born artist to paint in the Western style. Only five to six of his paintings are known to survive, and are each valued at up to US$450,000.[ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jan/14/il/FP701140310.html/?print=on]
Today, a Hawaiian language immersion school named in his honor is in Keaʻau, Puna, Hawaiʻi. Ke Kula ʻo Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu educates students from grades K-12 in the Hawaiian language. In 1999, this school was one of two that graduated the first high school classes to have been educated entirely in the Hawaiian language in a century.
[edit] References
- Sheldon, John G. M., and Puakea Nogelmeier (1988). The Biography of Joseph K. Nawahi. Translation of Ka buke moolelo o Hon. Joseph K. Nawahi. Translated from the Hawaiian with an introduction by Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society.
[edit] External links
- Joseph Nawahi biography
- Book mentioning Joseph Nawahi
- Article about Joseph Nawahi by Wanda Adams, from Honolulu Advertiser
