Kate, half Hawaiian, resents it when her lawyer father decides to return to the Islands to fight for native rights. She has no rapport with her relatives in their seedy homes on the north coast of Oahu. In the public school, she finds out firsthand about prejudice against "haoles", non-natives. But she also has a chance to participate in a hula group, very different from her ballet classes at home. As she learns to be more at ease with her relatives, she is able to understand the love of the land that is reflected in the ...
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Kate, half Hawaiian, resents it when her lawyer father decides to return to the Islands to fight for native rights. She has no rapport with her relatives in their seedy homes on the north coast of Oahu. In the public school, she finds out firsthand about prejudice against "haoles", non-natives. But she also has a chance to participate in a hula group, very different from her ballet classes at home. As she learns to be more at ease with her relatives, she is able to understand the love of the land that is reflected in the hula and accept, at last, her Hawaiian name of Maluhia.
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