Honolulu
Waipahu Cultural Center
This outdoor history museum tells the story of life on Hawaii?s sugar plantations (c. 1900). The village includes restored buildings and replicas of plantation structures such as houses of different ethnic groups, the community bath, camp office and plantation store.
Between 1852 and 1946, approximately 395,000 people were brought to Hawaii to work in the sugar fields. Immigrant groups who came to Hawaii, include: Chinese, Korean, Filipino(Illocano/Tagalog/Visayan/Cebuano/Bikol/Pangasinan), Japanese, Okinawan, Gilbert Islanders (I-Kiribati), Banaban, Norwegians, Germans, Galacians, Spanish, Puerto Ricans (Caribe'/Taino), Portuguese (Azorean/Cape Verdean, etc), Hindus, African Americans and Russians etc. **For the Spanish & Portuguese, Hawaii was a stepping stone to the mainland.
The shared experiences of backbreaking labor, low pay and constant supervision created the foundation for these laborers to overcome their differences and find common ground.
Hawaii?s plantation communities always had a disproportionate number of single male workers and in the early years, social relationships were associated with a bachelor lifestyle. Not until 1920 did women and children make up half of the plantation community.
The workers who stayed in Hawaii and raised families forged a new plantation community in which elements of their individual cultures merged to form the basis of modern multicultural Hawaii.
Japanese Shrine
Chinese House
Hawaiian Hut
January 4 Narcissus Flower Carving
February 15 New Beginnings and Chinese New Year
February 24 Parol Making
March 4 Portuguese Day
Malasada Day Sale
(Pick up: 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
Hawaii's Plantation Village
April 12 Filial Piety-Honoring our Ancestry
April 26 Puerto Rican Day
May 3 The Festival of Flowers
June 7 Obon Dance
September 13 Pacific Islanders II
November 15 Harvest Festival
December 6 Search for an Inn
Here are some stats of some of the immigrants that came to Hawaii to work in the plantation fields
7,000 KOREANS 1903-1905
17,500 PORTUGUESE (Azorean/Cape Verdean, etc) 1878-1913
5,200 PUERTO RICANS 1900
46,000 CHINESE 1852-1897
180,000 JAPANESE (including Okinawan) 1885-1924
The Filipino Community Center
Hawaii's Filipinos have come a long way since the arrival of the Sakadas in 1906. Since then, Filipinos in Hawaii have made great strides in all aspects of Hawaii's society. Nearly a century after the establishment of Hawaii's Filipino Community, the dream of having a gathering place to purpetuate the Filipino culture and community has come become a reality.
**The FilCom Center is the biggest Filipino community center in the entire United States and outside the Philippines.
Japanese Cultural Center:
Chinese Cultural Plaza:
Polynesian Cultural Center:
In each village, natives demonstrate crafts and skills such as creating clothing from bark, telling stories through dance, weaving baskets with leaves, and making fire by rubbing sticks. You'll also see them reenact war dances and wedding ceremonies, carve tiki figures, wield fire knives, and climb four-story trees in their bare feet. During feature presentations, you'll hear intriguing descriptions of cooking methods, transoceanic travel, and the preservation of traditions and history without a written language.
**Cultures representated are Hawaiian, Maori, Tahitian, Marquesan, Samoan, Tongan, & Fijian (Fijians are Melanesians actually, but the ethnic group Rotuman of Fiji are Polynesian) Latest additions to the Polynesian Cultural Center are the culture & peoples of Niue, The Cook Islands, & Rapa Nui
Korean Cultural Center:
Hispanic Center of Hawaii:
United Puerto Rican Center of Hawaii:
Kewalo Portuguese Holy Ghost Society:
Kauai Aadheenam - Hindu
Alaska
Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center - Sitka
Alaska Native Heritage Center
The Heritage Center was completed in early 1999, and is located on 26 acres of beautiful land, tucked behind the Glenn Highway and Muldoon Road. The Center was constructed to celebrate, perpetuate, and share the different Alaska Native traditions for the enrichment of all Alaskans, as well as visitors from around the world.
The Heritage Center places a great deal of investment in its educational component. It works to provide understanding of the five groups of Alaska Natives:
1-Athabascan
2-Yup?ik and Cup?ik
3-Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik
4-Aleut and Alutiiq
5-Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian
