The Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia and Albert Afraid of HawkThe Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry Opukahaia and Albert Afraid of Hawk (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books) Hardcover September 4, 2018 Henry p kaha ia (ca. 17921818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 18791900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities. p kaha ia was orphaned

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“Writing a book like this often feels like having a whale by the tail

but none have been able to match the simple grace and poignancy of Piilani's narrative

The Long Journeys Home chronicles these important stories as examples of the wide-reaching impact of American imperialism and colonialism on Indigenous Hawaiian and Lakota traditions and their cultural resurgences

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