Background
George Huʻeu Sanford Kanahele was born October 17, 1930 in Kahuku on the island of Oʻahu of Hawaii.
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He received his Bachelor"s and master"s degrees in political science from Brigham Young University Hawaiʻi, and Doctor of Philosophy in Government and Southeast Asian Affairs from Cornell University in 1967.
Career
He then served in the United States Army Security Agency in Germany. He published several books during his life relating to Hawaiian culture and history. Kanahele founded of the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association in 1997.
Despite being a valuable part of the Hawaiian activism movement, some of his ideas are controversial, such as his argument that native Hawaiians should embrace Hawaii"s tourism by helping the visitor industry revive a "Hawaiianess," also described as "a Hawaiian sense of place," in visitor destinations such as Waikīkī.
He died September 15, 2000 while teaching a seminar on Guam.
