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SPECTER OF SOVEREIGNTY
August 21, 2009. Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood commemoration was an event that changed the way that we think about statehood. The events inside and outside the convention center brought disparate viewpoints together in a manner where voices and histories could exist side-by-side, speaking with each other not through words, but by presence.
If this presence revealed itself throughout the day as a specter, we were reawakened to the manifest life that this land embraces. Later in the evening, at a separate event organized by Manu Kaiama and with the cooperation of Friends of Iolani Palace director Kippen de Alba Chu, oli or chants were performed at Iolani Palace.
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