Remembering Iosepa
Subtitle: history, place, and religion in the American West
By: Matthew Kester
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780199844913
Subjects: Mormon Church; Missions; Immigrants; Hawaiians; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; History
Description: 'Remembering Iosepa' connects the story of Iosepa, a 19th-century community of Native Hawaiian migrants to the Salt Lake Valley, with the vibrant and growing community of Pacific Islanders in the Great Basin today.
Notes: Publication of the author's dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Pacific world; title: The Hawaiian mission : Lana'i, La'ie, and the gathering; title: Early native Hawaiian migration to the Salt Lake Valley; title: Iosepa : creating a native Hawaiian community in Skull Valley, Utah; title: "As a testament to the faith of these ancestors of ours" : Iosepa in public memory.