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Valentine's Day marks death of James Cook, a significant day for Native Hawaiians

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-02-13/valentines-day-marks-death-of-james-cook-a-significant-day-for-native-hawaiians

#Hawaii #CaptainCook #ValentinesDay #Indigenous

Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #indigenoushistory #indigenousrights #hawaii #captaincook #NativeHawaiians #colonialism #genocide #indigenous

Painting, Death of Captain Cook by eyewitness John Webber. Shows Cook and his men, in blue uniforms, fighting back with gunfire, as Indigenous Hawaiians attack with knives and staffs. By John Webber - http://tpo.tepapa.govt.nz ; o quadro se encontra na galeria William Dixson em Sydney., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11602231

#valentines #history #captaincook #colonizer

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

Satirical cartoon of The arrest of Governor Bligh, 1808, artist unknown, watercolour drawing, attached to the left hand wall in the image is a sheet with text, “O what can the matter be.” Shows 3 soldiers in red uniforms, with black, cylindrical hats, dragging a cowering Bligh out from under a mattress where he was hiding. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5. By Unknown author – State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17959234

First contact between the Gweagal Aboriginal people and Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores on the shores of Gweagal land, William Macleod, 1886

Context: “Two Gweagal men challenged the landing and gestured with their spears. Cook’s party attempted to communicate their desire for water, but the two men continued to oppose the landing and Cook fired a shot which wounded one of the Aboriginal warriors and forced them to flee.”

Following this incident Cook would stay at the site for 8 days before reporting back to England. 18 years later in 1788 the First Fleet would arrive and begin to invade/colonise the land. On Monday Australia celebrates Australia Day, a date also known as Invasion Day or Survival Day - marking the beginning of the genocide of the Aboriginal peoples and theft of their homes.

Illustration from “Australia: the first hundred years”, by Andrew Garran.

Source

A visit to Kurnell, Sydney 🏞️🇦🇺 — the place where Captain Cook first landed in 1770. Standing by the shores of Botany Bay, this historic site blends natural beauty with cultural & historical significance 🌊⛵

#Kurnell #CaptainCook #travelphototime #BotanyBay #SydneyHistory

Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/captain-cook-missing-ship-found-hms-endeavour-b2771322.html

#HackerNews #CaptainCook #MissingShip #Discovery #History #Maritime #Archaeology #Endeavour

Who can claim ownership over Captain Cook's vessel? #ownership #history #exploration #hmsendeavour #captaincook

Turning Pages, Winning Treasures: The Bidders’ Journey at New England Book Auctions

...#BookAuctions #RareBooks #CaptainVancouver #ExplorationHistory #FirstEditions #AntiqueMaps #HistoricalManuscripts #AuctionFinds #CollectibleBooks #TravelLiterature #CaptainCook #RareManuscripts #BookCollectors #AuctionHighlights #HistoricalDocuments New England Book Auctions held a two-session sale on March 25 and April 2, offering more than 450 lots of books, lithographs, and other…

https://pussygaloresemporium.com/turning-pages-winning-treasures-the-bidders-journey-at-new-england-book-auctions/

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Illustration
14th February 1779, anniversary* of Captain James Crook’s death b y local First Nations on Hawaii.

Original art updated to include Valentines Day icons like Hearts

* 14 February 1779, English Colonizer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, after the native Hawaiians had taken a longboat from Cook's expedition in what they assumed was a trade exchange. As Cook and his men attempted to take the chief to his ship, they were confronted by a crowd of Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay seeking to rescue their leader. The ensuing battle resulted in the deaths of Cook and several Royal Marines, as well as several Hawaiians. Kalaniʻōpuʻu survived the exchange.

Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻomake iā Kapena Kuke!
Happy Death of Captain Cook Day!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRXjnrgSPA/?img_index=1
#Hawaii #Indigenous #CaptainCook #DeathOfCaptainCookDay

14th February James Cook’s death day

[Image: The Death of Captain James Cook by Johann Zoffany (1794)]

James Cook was a British explorer and colonizer, who’s efforts ended with the colonization of Hawaii and New Zealand.

During Cook’s initial visit to Hawaii, he ordered his men to remove the wood used to border a sacred burial site called Morai. The chiefs and high-ranking Hawaiians felt extremely offended and insulted but Cook kept stealing the wood from the sacred place.

Cook and his crew left the island soon after, and when they are back to Kealakekua Bay to make some repairs, Hawaiians used this opportunity to steal one of their long boats as retaliation for the offenses committed.

[Image: King Kalaniʻōpuʻu’s feathered cloak]

Cook and some armed crew members tried to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the king (aliʻi nui) of Hawaii on the 14th of February 1779. But James Cook and his men failed, and he was killed that very same day at Kealakekua Bay.

Sources:

The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard

Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints Volumes 1-5

Happy Valentine's Day! 💖

#anticolonialism #anticolonialist #activism #activist #valentine #valentinesday #antiracism #antiracist #anarchism #anarchist #hawaii #uk #captaincook #teatree #jamescook

Valentine's Day is so commercial, let's not lose track of the real meaning of this special day: The day native Hawaïans stabbed British Captain James Cook right in his colonising fucking neck on February 14, 1779

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

No words

My cartoon

#auspol #CaptainCook #FirstNations #AustraliaDay

Single panel editorial cartoon titled No Words. Two men in a park looking up at a (shocked looking) statue of Captain Cook that has been vandalised with red paint. Caucasian man says angrily, “hurumph! I have NO words!!”. First Nations man replies, “took your language too, eh?”

Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.

This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.

British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.

The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcyhyc

#BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous

M2.48 #earthquake (#sismo) 14 km WSW of #CaptainCook, #Hawaii 3 minutes ago! More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/hv74428402

“These would have been extraordinarily sought after in 18th-century Britain, during the golden age of shell collecting when single specimens could sell for thousands of pounds.”

Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster.

Long presumed lost, the collection of rare shells is now on display in England

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-now-extinct-sea-specimens-from-an-18th-century-collectors-lost-trove-have-been-rediscovered-180983947/ #shells #CaptainCook #18thCentury #history

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Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster

Funny thing last week with #accents — for context, my visual acuity and #ventral stream are stronger than average, but I've got some #AuditoryProcessingDisorder or auditory #agnosia so that listening to thick accents is like watching with subtitles that autocorrect.

An audio-only Welsh accent said "Cally Cook" but I heard the word "Kirk". Then it hit me that #CaptainKirk and #CaptainCook are both famous captains … COULD THEY BE the same name on purpose?

Guess what: James Cook, James Kirk.