Editor: Benjamin Sutton
Location: O'ahu, Hawai'i
The year was 1972. Terrilee Kekoʻolani, then a young native Hawaiian activist, is pictured in a black-and-white photograph at a Save Our Surf (SOS) demonstration on Oʻahu’s east end. “We need to protect our resources, and stop land development and evictions of our people,” Kekoʻolani said. “We need to remember that Hawaii belongs to Hawaiians.” This and other significant moments from the ongoing sovereignty movement, as documented by photographer Ed Greevy and the late scholar Haunani-Kay Trask, play out along a wall-filling installation at the Honolulu Museum of Art—all challenging dominant notions of migration, access and power that surround them in the inaugural Hawaiʻi Triennial, titled Pacific Century — E Hoʻomau no Moananuiākea.
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