the Crevice Never Seen and the 2002 Night Is a Sharkskin Drum. Trask developed We Are Not Happy Natives, a CD published in 2002 about the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Trask represented Native Hawaiians at the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, and in 2001 traveled to South Africa to participate in the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. In March 2017, Hawaii Magazine recognized Trask as one of the most influential women in Hawaiian history. In September 2021, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa issued a posthumous apology to Trask for attacks she received from Mānoa philosophers in the past. Views During her time in Chicago while studying for her undergraduate degree, Trask learned about and became an active supporter of the Black Panther Party. While studying at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Trask also participated in student protests against the Vietnam War. Because of these experiences, Trask wrote that, as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she began to develop theories about how capitalism and racism sustained each other. During her time studying politics in her graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Trask began to engage in feminist studies, and considered herself to be a feminist. Later in Trask's work, she denounced her role as a "feminist" because of the mainstream focus on Americans and whiteness, herself being more aligned with transnational feminism. "Now that I was working among my people, I saw there were simply too many limitations in the scope of feminist theory and praxis. The feminism I had studied was just too white, too American. Only issues defined by white women as 'feminist' had structured discussions. Their language revolved around First World 'rights' talk, that Enlightenment individualism that takes for granted 'individual' primacy. Last, but in many ways most troubling, feminist style was aggressively American." Trask opposed tourism to Hawaii and the U.S. military's presence in Hawaii. In 2004, Trask spoke out against the Akaka Bill, a bill to establish a process for Native Hawaiians to gain federal recognition similar to the recognition that some Native American tribes possess. Trask felt that this bill did not do justice to Native Hawaiian people because it allowed the U.S. government to control Native Hawaiian governing structure, land, and resources without recognizing Hawaii as a nation of its own. Additionally, she clarified that