"Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States." "Scholars and others interested in a number of fields - Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies - will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work."--BOOK JACKET

1700-1899, Beschäftigung, Canada, British Columbia Minorities History, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life Northwest, Pacific, Fur trade, Fur trade Northwest, Pacific History, Hawaiianer, Hawaiians, Hawaiians British Columbia, Hawaiians California, Hawaiians Employment, Hawaiians Employment Northwest, Pacific, Hawaiians Northwest,

Leaving paradise Maritime sojourners The astoria adventure In the service of the Hudsons Bay Company Making a life in the fur trade Hawaiians in the missionary advance Boundary making North of the 49th parallel Moving across the generations Hawaiians and other Polynesians in the Pacific Northwest

Includes index

Includes index