About Hawaii and Author

According to James Houston's book, "Bird of Another Heaven", I learned what happened to Hawaii in 1893.   Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by missionary boys.  Missionary boys were responsible for getting rid of Hawaiian Culture.  See my review about his book in this Multiply. 

I had no idea that President Clinton in 1993 signed an Apology Resolution to Hawaii for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 until I went to check out the history of Hawaii in Wikipedia.  I guess this is a wonderful news to the people of Hawaii.  Missionary boys lost a battle against it but I know that they already passed away.  Otherwise, Hawaiian Culture is already coming back and a success.  Hawaiian people will never forget their important culture that ancestors passed on to them.

Here is a link of Apology Resolution 1993 by Wikipedia below:

Apology Resolution 1993

Here is a link of James D. Houston's Homepage:

James D. Houston

Another link of this author's Q&A below:

James D. Houston's Q&A by The Borzoi Reader

Bird of Another Heaven

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	James D. Houston

I just finished reading a book about the story of part Hawaiian, part Indian, part Californian lady in the 19th century that author, Sheridan Brody, researched and wrote on personally yesterday morning (Monday February 11th). This real author, James D. Houston, made it up but parts of story in the book are true historically. He mentioned landmarks many years before the Golden Gate Bridge developing and few famous leaders. Parts in it are discussing Hawaiian and American Cultures. As I was reading it, I felt I want to go to Hawaii but one day I will. LOL! I enjoyed reading it. I love it. It’s wonderful experience for Sheridan Brody to find out but I can’t give you long details. Brody’s Hawaiian/Californian great grandmother named Nani Keala as known Nancy Callahan to Americans wrote very private journals for many years. She accounted Hawaiian King David Kalakaua. Before I borrowed this book, I’ve checked an information about the history of Hawaii in Wikipedia and learned about Hawaiian Royal Family. I do remember King David Kalakaua’s name have been mentioned in that book. I was surprised. Houston did a wonderful job by doing a research on the history of Hawaii and California. Houston also mentioned the missionary boys who wanted to get rid of Hawaiian Culture in that book. This is a true. It reminds me of DVD movie, “Hawaii”, about the missionary boys. I am recommending this great book to you if you haven’t heard about Hawaiian Culture.