Today—13 August—in Hawaiian History [1811]: Naukane, a native alii called John Coxe by the foreigners who sailed with him, arrives at Spokane House and is credited with being the first Hawaiian to visit the inland Northwest of the United States. Naukane would later settle for a time near Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia. He had been appointed as a Royal observer by Mōʻī (King) Kamehameha I to explore possible involvement of Hawaiians in the Pacific Fur Trade. Native Hawaiians would travel to and settle in places across the globe in the early 19th century and a significant population of kanaka lived in the areas that are now Northern California, Oregon, Washington State, and Western Canada. By the 1890s, The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi had established diplomatic consulates along the northwest coast at San Francisco; Portland; Seattle, Tacoma; Port Townsend; Victoria, British Columbia; and Vancouver. To read more about Naukane and others, see the article Kanaka World Travelers and Fur Company Employees, 1785-1860 by Janice K. Duncan in the Hawaiian Journal of History v7 (1973): evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/133
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:31:15 +0000
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