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Mākeke | The Marketplace: November 2019
Classified ads only $12.50 - Type or clearly write your ad of no more than 175 characters (including spaces and punctuation) and mail, along with a check for $12.50, to: Ka Wai Ola Classifieds, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 560 N. Nimitz Hwy., Suite 200,...
Hoʻohui ʻOhana | Family Reunions: November 2019
E nā ʻohana Hawaiʻi: If you are planning a reunion or looking for genealogical information, Ka Wai Ola will print your listing at no charge on a space-available basis. Listings should not exceed 200 words. OHA reserves the right to edit all submissions for...
A Pono Vision for Maui’s Future
He wai e mana, he wai e ola, e ola nō ʻeā. On October 10, 2019, the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) approved another one-year “holdover” permit that would allow Alexander & Baldwin (A&B) to divert water from East Maui streams on...
Hawaiians & the Economy: We’re in The Same Boat as Everyone!
Whenever I visit mainland cities, I’m delighted to run into kamaʻaina. For example, when I go to conferences in Las Vegas, I am frequently greeted with "Aloha, Uncle!" by hotel workers or employees in restaurants who hail from Hawaiʻi. On trips as far away...
How Do We Stay FUTURE STRONG for our beneficiaries?
Let’s start with a ‘new’ Governance Framework which better aligns OHA’s decision-making process with our mission in order to meet the needs of our beneficiaries.
It may sound like a cliché, but it really is going to help our people…by just being a more ‘people...
Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs
The month of November, for many, signifies the start of the holiday season. For me it means one thing: Convention. Being the son of two former presidents of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, who also happen to be founding members of the Pearl...
I Mana Ka Leo
In September, the Board of Trustees traveled to Hawaiʻi Island for the final scheduled neighbor island meeting of the year. As part of our scheduled presentations on the agenda, OHA was able to receive an update from various community members, among them Robert Agres,...
Hoʻolaha Lehulehu | Public Notice: November 2019
Burial Notice: halewaiʻolu, honolulu ahupuaʻa oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES IS HEREBY GIVEN that human skeletal remains were identified by Cultural Surveys Hawaiʻi, Inc. during the course of an archaeological inventory survey related to the Halewaiʻolu Senior Residences, Honolulu Ahupuaʻa, Honolulu (Kona) District, Oʻahu,...
News Briefs | November 2019
Nearly 200 people gathered at Waiwai Collective on September 27, 2019 to hear Malia Nobrega-Olivera & Kuʻulei Santos of the Hui Hana Paʻakai o Hanapēpē, NHLC Attorney Alan Murakami, and facilitator Haunani Lemn discuss the issues surrounding the historic practices and management of the Hanapēpē Salt Ponds.
Things We Aloha: Holiday Gift Guide
Are you on the hunt for unique gifts this holiday season? In celebration of Small Business Month and the infamous Cyber Monday, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs staff share some of their local favorites available online. With online options from businesses across the pae...
Courage to Leave the Dock
A new generation of Hawaiian leaders are rising to the challenges facing our islands and our planet. E Hoʻokanaka features these important new voices.
Ka Wai Ola recently caught up with Hōkūleʻa navigator Kaʻiulani Murphy. Originally from Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island, Murphy recalls being “fascinated” the...
Lā Kūʻokoʻa: How Timoteo Haʻalilio Helped Secure Hawaiian Independence
By Kauʻi Sai-Dudoit
“...the 28th of November was the day that the Hawaiian Kingdom gained its independence from the other power of the nations of Britain and France. On that day in the year 1843, the great powers of Britain and France joined together to...
Mōhala i ka Wai ka Maka o ka Pua
“Unfolded by the water are the faces of the flowers.” ʻŌlelo # 2178
Kāne and Kanaloa created freshwater springs and streams throughout our islands. Moʻolelo (stories) tell of Kāne and Kanaloa and their travels together, opening freshwater sources to aid the people and farmers living...
Focus on Water Rights Advocacy on Maui
By Davis Price & Aliantha Lim
Native Hawaiian communities on Maui have fought for decades for the restoration of sufficient stream flow to support kalo farmers, subsistence practices, and native stream and coastal marine life, as required under the State Constitution. Article XI, Section 7,...
Kūkahi March: A Nation Rising
Over the course of several weeks, an idea sparked by a single Hawaiian woman led to one of the largest demonstrations in our history, with nary a major organization or advertising campaign behind it. The Kūkahi: Together We Rise march on October 5, 2019,...
Celebrating Lā Kūʻokoʻa
Aloha mai kākou,
On November 28, 1843, the governments of Great Britain and France formally recognized Hawaiian independence with what is known as the Anglo-Franco proclamation. Upon securing a formal recognition of independence from these major European powers, the Hawaiian Kingdom freely entered into treaties...