Quote by Haunani-Kay Trask: “To resist is to remember.”

This powerful aphorism suggests that keeping historical memory alive is an act of defiance against oppression. It means that by remembering past injustices and cultural heritage, people gain the strength and motivation to fight for their rights and future.

Trask emphasized that the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was fundamentally rooted in remembering and reclaiming a pre-colonial past, countering colonial efforts to erase indigenous history and identity, and fostering resistance.

Native Hawaiian scholar, poet, and activist who was a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a leading voice for Hawaiian sovereignty. Her 1993 book From a Native Daughter challenged Western academic accounts of Hawaiian history. She co-founded the Kamana Hawaiian Studies program.