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OHA Board approves $3 Million to go directly to Charter Schools
The OHA Board of Trustees in October approved distributing $3 million directly to Hawaiian-focused charter schools over the next two years, changing the way...
Mākeke: Marketplace | November 2017
Classified ads only $12.50 - Type or clearly write your ad of no more than 175 characters (including spaces and punctuation) and mail, along...
Melody MacKenzie honored for advocacy
The Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation’s 2017 Native Hawaiian Advocate of the Year is Professor Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie. On Wednesday, October 11, 2017, the Native...
Hoʻohui ʻOhana | November 2017
E nā ʻohana Hawaiʻi: If you are planning a reunion or looking for genealogical information, Ka Wai Ola will print your listing at no...
The Plumeria Tree
I have several graphic kid memories of 1950s Honolulu/Waikīkī Memories, whose embers still burn deeply, brightly and graphically in my “mind’s eye” sixty years...
ʻALEMANAKA: CALENDAR | NOVEMBER 2017
Calendar Listings - To have a local event listed in our monthly calendar, email kwo@oha.org at least six weeks in advance. Make sure to...
Welina me ke aloha, e nā kini, e nā mamo, a me nā pua o Hawai‘i
Last month, I introduced to you our work with the Fiscal Sustainability Plan. I would like to inform you that we are well underway,...
The State of History
This month’s columnist is my nephew, ‘Umi Perkins, PhD, who teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and Political Science at the University of...
E Hana Kākou – Let’s Work Together for Hawaiian Charter Schools
Almost everyone in Hawai‘i knows the phrase E Pule Kākou – Let’s Pray Together. Whether at public or private gatherings, in church or in...
Keahi‘āloa
Early one morning an old woman was harvesting ʻuala (sweet potato) for breakfast. ʻAuē! She found several ʻuala had been eaten, leaving vines and...
Give OHA its fair share of ceded land revenues
ʻAnoʻai kakou… In 2006, Senate Bill 2948 established the amount of interim revenue to be transferred to the OHA from the public land trust,...
Kākoʻo ʻoihana ʻōiwi
This special section features several Native Hawaiian-owned businesses, and a convenient directory of those businesses
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Wahine Toa Designs
(808) 938-3583
Nā Mākua Original Hawaiian Designs
www.namakua.com
(808) 966-4647
Hina LLC
www.hinahawaii.com
(808)...
The Iron Law of Institutions…and the Iron Law of ME: A series of FUTURE STRONG!
The Iron Law of Institutions goes like this: “The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the Institution rather...
Hawaiian Things We Aloha
If you‘re on the hunt for unique gifts this holiday season, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs encourages you to kākoʻo ʻoihana ʻōʻiwi, support Hawaiian...
Queen Liliʻuokalani: A Legacy That Inspires
Presented by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
On the 100th year of her passing, Queen Liliʻuokalani serves as an inspiration for the Liliʻuokalani Trust (LT)...
HULŌ! Hawaiʻi will welcome the Festival of Pacific Arts in 2020
Since 1972, artists, performers, and cultural practitioners from nations throughout Oceania have gathered every four years for an event called the Festival of Pacific...
Lānaʻi events focus on college, careers and scholarships
On November 8, 2017, Lānaʻi will host its very own college and career fair at Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in Lānaʻi City. This...
In Pursuit of the Purple Prize
Startup competition unites tech innovation, culture, and environment
The idea for the Purple Prize came about after Kelsey Amos read an article on “Zen Hack”...