Biography
My name is Noah Humphrey, a 1st-year Masters of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School remotely studying for the spring semester in Honolulu, Hawai'i (I originally lived in South Central LA). I want to become a pastor and a chiropractor that utilizes prayer and I want to pursue chiropractor school when I have completed my Master's degree. Receiving my bachelor's in Religious Studies and a minor in Holistic Care from Whittier College in 2020, I constantly explore sections of holistic care and neo- spiritualism with a scope of bettering myself and my community.
Paper Abstract
With this paper, I will detail how the effects of colonialism and the guise of Christianity deeply affected the ecosystem in which medical kahunas who have helped Native Hawaiians have been suppressed and gentrified to government standards. Due to law processes and a change of belief systems, medical kahunas and shamans were limited and exploited for their roles in the eventual uprooting of their land. My project/paper will detail these effects along with how medical kahuna have contributed to the ancient history of Hawai'i and holds a key to future developments in the future. With medical practices deepening their spirituality it is imperative that indigenous sovereign nations such as Hawai'i are notified for their medical expertise, religious systems, and most importantly their love for the ╩╗─Çina(land).