I can tell you from the professional side that the historiography of Hawai'i is fucked up in various ways, i.e. virtually no one has actually bothered to learn Hawai'ian. And the people who have can't get book contracts because they're not white. So this is an area in which I would give serious side-eye to academic publications and recommend you also seek out less scholarly sources.
That said, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa is one of the leading places for Pacific history (at least from what I know from the field perspective, and let me stress that the field perspective may not be that great) and I would expect the publications by their faculty to be half-decent: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/people?q=node/17 If you can find the book that Noelani Arista wrote an intro to (listed on her page here: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/node/51) that sounds like it might be good. (I might also be able to get you her dissertation, which won a major AHA award.) She might be a good person to email, too. I would also recommend asking people like Kate Elliott and/or her daughter what kind of stuff they use to teach in schools there.
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That said, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa is one of the leading places for Pacific history (at least from what I know from the field perspective, and let me stress that the field perspective may not be that great) and I would expect the publications by their faculty to be half-decent: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/people?q=node/17 If you can find the book that Noelani Arista wrote an intro to (listed on her page here: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/node/51) that sounds like it might be good. (I might also be able to get you her dissertation, which won a major AHA award.) She might be a good person to email, too. I would also recommend asking people like Kate Elliott and/or her daughter what kind of stuff they use to teach in schools there.