the bill was drafted ex parte and that hearings were withheld in order to exclude native community involvement. In her obituary, the New York Times noted her pressure for Indigenous sovereignty and quoted her as saying, “We will die as Hawaiians. We will never be Americans.” Personal life Trask's longtime partner was University of Hawaii professor David Stannard. Trask died from cancer on July 3, 2021. Family Trask came from a politically active family. Mililani Trask, her younger sister, is a leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Her paternal grandfather, David Trask Sr., was chairman of the civil service commission and the police commission in 1922, served as the sheriff of Honolulu from 1923 to 1926, and was elected a territorial senator from Oahu in 1932. He was a key proponent of Hawaii statehood. Trask's uncle, Arthur K. Trask, was an attorney, an active member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Statehood Commission from 1944–1957. David Trask Jr., another uncle, was the head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Selected works Books Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory (1986) From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (1993) Poetry Light in the Crevice Never Seen (1994) Night Is a Sharkskin Drum (2002) Other Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (documentary film, 1993) Haunani-Kay Trask: We Are Not Happy Natives (educational CD, 2002) References External links Brief biographical note A 1996 interview with an otherwise unidentified Canadian publication Franklin, Cynthia and Laura F. Lyons. "Land, Leadership, and Nation: Haunani-Kay Trask on the Testimonial Uses of Life Writing in Hawaii", Biography, 27: 1, Winter 2004. "Trask Still Beats the Drum of Resistance", August 23, 2002, Asianweek.com 1949 births 2021 deaths Activists from California American women writers Hawaiian studies Kamehameha Schools alumni Native Hawaiian academics Native Hawaiian nationalists Native Hawaiian writers University of Hawaiʻi faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Women in Hawaii politics Writers from California Writers from Hawaii 21st-century American women Hawaiian cultural activists