Noenoe K. Silva (Kanaka Hawai`i) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Hawaiian language at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. She is the author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Duke, 2004). Recent journal articles include "Early Hawaiian Newspapers and Kanaka Maoli Intellectual History" in Hawaiian Journal of History 2009; "Nā Hulu Kupuna: To Honor Our Intellectual Ancestors" in Biography; and "Pele, Hi`iaka, and Haumea: Women and Power in Two Hawaiian Mo`olelo" in Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of Vaka, a special issue of Pacific Studies. Silva was the Katrin H. Lamon Scholar at the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience for 2006-07. She is the senior scholar in the Indigenous Politics program at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, teaching courses on global indigenous politics, representations of indigenous peoples, and indigenous peoples and Western imperialism. She also teaches courses in politics via the medium of the Hawaiian language at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.