Trask's writing is shocking. Her book presents an interesting alternative view of Hawaiian history as well as an interesting critique of Western thought (especially history and anthropology).
Unfortunately Trask's militant sensationalism, and self serving narcisism creep in and very nearly ruin the entire book. The pages are filled with self-glorifying pictures of Trask and her political pals. The articles focus almost entirely on Trask's own political actions, ignoring all other movements and all previous scholarship.
Trask's opinions are of course "interesting", but they are not based on any sort of sound historical or scientific evidence. The little bits of flimsy evidence she does cite are almost laughable in light of the kind of re-evalutations she is pushing for. Are the lyrics of a single song really proper cause for an entire re-evaluation of historical theory?
There are some very large holes in her arguments. So large, in fact, that virtually no scholars, american, European or otherwise, take her work seriously. In reality, very few native Hawaiians take her or her politics seriously either
Trask's personality really casts her argument into a deep, dark shadow. It's unfortunate that a more level headed person didn't undertake the writing of this book because it is actually quite interesting, and even enlightening at times.

Trasks book is definetly worth reading. She has some wonderful critiques of the tourist industry and its effect on the economy,politics, and sustainability of Hawai'i. I also believe that Trask provides of very long over due and pertinent analization of the historic events that led to the occupation, overthrow, and takeover of the Hawai'ian Islands. In response to one of the reviewers, native Hawai'ians were friendly to you because they are paid to do so. To compare Trask to Hitler or David Duke is utterly ignorant and white backlash against a scholarly critique of white supremacy, imperialization, and colonization. The fact that Trask is not "100 %" Hawai'ian reminds us of the fact that the reason indigenous people are dying off is because of the colonial system that Trask critiques. On the other hand, I do believe that Trask leaves certain things to be desired. The diversity in opinions of various sovereignty groups in Hawai'i are all together left out and I have to disagree with her brand of extremist nationalism which tends to be not only exclusive but conservative as well. However, a critique of the colonialist exploitation of Hawai'i is often ignored and Trask fills in a void left by scholars and the general community alike.

Trask's work, From a Native Daughter, is quite an interesting read. .... ... Trask's twelve page indictment of tourism as a form of cultural colonialism is both accurate and delivered with such fortitude that analytical opposition is virtually insurmountable. ...

This CD was horribly put together. The videos are choppy, poor quality. The navigation is very confusing to follow, and the "interviews" are all just self-serving ... by her cronies. It's obvious Trask is under the spell of "look how great I think I am," rather that putting together a truly educational CD. When somebody writes their own review of their work saying that its "widely considered a masterpiece" and fails to quote any actual sources, you know you're getting gyped out of [money].

Wonderful, intelligent, humorous--at times-- and absolutely top drawwer. A must read for anyone interested in indigenous politics, peoples, lands, or issues, and Hawai'i

This CD-Rom which has literally taken me days to go through - there is just so much information on this disk! The focus of the CD is mainly on education and Haunani-Kay Trask's practice of education, how it helps the Hawaiian people's struggles for sovereignty. The interface of the cd is clean and navigation easy basically just point and click. The videos were great very clear and the audio clean - much better quality than videos on my encyclopedia cd-roms, and the thing I love best is how you can listen to a whole segment and go back to certain parts within that segment without having to listen to the whole thing all over again. Sometimes Haunani Kay Trask will say a word that I never heard of so the definitions that appeared next to the video were extremely helpful. I think being able to listen and watch Haunani Trask talk makes her ideas a little bit easier for me to understand since I'm not the best reader. The two things I would have liked to see more of on this CD would have been more pictures of Haunani Trask and videos of residents of Hawaii, but overall I really liked it and recommend it to people interested in Haunani, her work, or just education in general.