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Ka Wai Ola | Vol. 37 No. 8 | August 2020

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Mākeke | The Marketplace | August 2020

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Hoʻohui ʻOhana | Family Reunions: August 2020

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E nā ʻohana Hawaiʻi: If you are planning a reunion or looking for genealogical information, Ka Wai Ola will print your listing at no...

How Do We Unite a Lāhui?

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With election season in full swing I often ponder the question, “How do we unite a lāhui?” Certainly, this column will fail to answer...

A Misunderstanding…

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Clarifying that the intent was never to disrespect OHA and its beneficiaries by creating 99-year leases of ceded lands. Ke Aloha Nō! Aloha! As the Legislature...

Makaʻala for the OHA Election

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With the primary election upon us it is a good time to remind everyone of the importance of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs elections....

News Briefs | August 2020

Photo: Iolani Palace
CNHA Raises Over $127,00 in Four Days to Save ʻIolani Palace The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) raised over $127,000 in less than a...

Kinai ʻEha: Extinguishing Pain Through Hard Work

It was fall 2016. Josiah ʻĀkau had responded to a shout out to kōkua a friend in Waimānalo. They needed to add a wheelchair...

Overfished Shark Species Will Be Protected

Groups agree to suspend a lawsuit against the federal government. In response to a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Conservation Council for...

From ʻUmi-A-Liloa to the 20th century

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The census is not a new practice in Hawaiʻi. The earliest known census can be traced back to the 1500s when ʻUmi-A-Liloa, King of...

The Zoom Boom

Photo: Bryan Tolentino
This age of the coronavirus is becoming known as the “Zoom Boom.” With “safer at home” now top of mind, the cloud-based videoconferencing platform—initially...

JABSOM Students Create Bilingual Covid-19 Educational Videos

Photo: JABSOM haumāna
By Dr. Martina L. Kamaka The entry of COVID-19 upended all of our world, including schools everywhere. JABSOM (the John A. Burns School of Medicine)...

Preparing for School in a Pandemic

Photo: Papa Mālaaʻo Virtual Classroom
Two Immersion Schools Build Technology Solutions on Cultural Foundations The day after the Hawaiian flag was lowered, signifying the annexation of Hawaiʻi, an editorial was...

Waimea Valley Reopens

Photo: White Hibiscus
Richard Pezzulo’s favorite place in Waimea Valley is 45-foot Waimea Falls. He strolls or drives a golf cart in the valley at least once...

Native Hawaiian Startup Wins 20th Annual UH Venture Competition

For the last 20 years, UH Mānoa’s Shidler College of Business Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) has hosted a semester-long UH Venture Competition. The...

KOKO Provides Proactive Patient Care Amid the Pandemic

Photo: KOKO Team Pre Pandemic
When Dr. Claren Kealoha-Beaudet and the team at Kīpuka O Ke Ola (KOKO) applied for an OHA Community Grant more than a year ago,...

Hina Hawaiʻi: A Passion for Fashion

Photo: Hina Haawaii Collection
Culture and fashion are Kanani Miner’s passions. For as long as she can remember, it is something she was always interested in. It has...

Kahiau Provides Kōkua During the Coronavirus Crisis

Photo: Dawny Jones
“The Kahiau Program has been able to help over 400 Native Hawaiians pay their rent and keep their utilities running during the pandemic...” —Kūhiō...

What You Do to the Land, You Do to the People

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By Kaleleonālani Kekauoha-Schultz I am writing to raise a grave and immediate concern about the spraying of glyphosate-based herbicides at the Waiehu Kou community of...

Cloak and Helmet Gifted to Captain Cook is Permanently Returned to Hawaiʻi

Photo: Ahu Ula Feathered Cloak
By Melanie Y. Ide, Bishop Museum President and CEO An ʻahu ʻula (feather cloak) and mahiole (feather helmet) gifted to Captain Cook in 1779 have...