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The Hawaiian system of land use allowed access to all resources in the ahupua‘a, a land division that stretched from mountain to sea. Within the ahupua‘a, highly specialized technologies such as fishponds and lo‘i kalo (taro gardens) ensured an abundance of food. Our...
Fulfilling a soldier’s duty to preserve life, Edward Wendt personifies servant leadership with a tenacious resolve to fight for what is right. A Vietnam War veteran and a strong advocate for native Hawaiian rights, he used ancestral knowledge to survive in both...
Mālama Moʻomomi features “Mac” Poepoe, a native Hawaiian fisherman and community leader on Molokaʻi, who has dedicated his life to sharing his knowledge of traditional resource management with the hope of ensuring that this ocean “ice box” will be well-stocked for...
In this episode we take a look at the connection the world's indigenous people have with their environment.
The editors of a new book on Aboriginal languages say more than a million Indigenous place names are in danger of being lost forever. Are our indigenous names getting the recognition they deserve and what is achieved by re-naming places by their indigenous name. And...
The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of the World's Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This event also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people...
An international indigenous news and current affairs programme with stories sourced from members of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network.(SERIES PREMIERE) In this episode we look at the effect of natural disasters on culture and heritage.
In this episode we look at how indigenous cultures around the world are being affected by the destruction of their land and how important conservation has become in protecting cultures.
Maunakea, a sacred place of Hawaiian deities, is also a good example of a wahi pana. We use this place to explain the idea of pana in telling the pana of Waiʻau.
Maunakea, a sacred place of Hawaiian deities, is also a good example of a wahi pana. We use this place to explain the idea of pana in telling the pana of Waiʻau.
A look at the ongoing efforts to care for the natural, cultural, and scientific resources of Mauna Kea. 20090608
The Thirty-Meter Telescope Project held seven state-wide meetings collecting comments from the public on their draft Environmental Impact Statement. 20090706
Hundreds gathered this morning in front of Ka Leo's office at UH Mānoa in protest for a student's mural that was partially censored by the school. The mural was made as part of the Ka Leo Arts Festival and brought attention to the controversial telescope construction...
Ke mau nei nō ka hana kū kiaʻi mauna a nā koa aloha ʻāina i meae hoʻokū ʻia ai ke kūkulu ʻia o ka ʻohe nānā 30 mika ma Mauna Kea. Ma ka nui ʻana aʻe o nā kānaka e alu like ana, pēia pū ka ʻume ʻia ai o nā hoa kākoʻo hou aku me ka hoʻonaʻauao ʻia. Aloha ʻĀina Warriors...
Aloha ‘Āina Protectors, grounded in aloha and respect, are resolved to suceed. Organizers are appealing to everyone to approach this process with a deep sense of aloha, respect, thoughtfulness and purpose by declaring a “kapu aloha,” or a mandate for aloha in their...
In a series of four community meetings on Hawai'i island in October of 2001, representatives from NASA and the W. M. Keck Observatory presented their plan to add six new telescopes to their array atop Mauna Kea, including proposed plans for restoring disturbed habitat...
Komo like nō nā ʻano kānaka hana noʻeau mai ʻō a ʻō i ke kalewa a kūʻai aku i kā lākou mau hana nani a launa ʻole ma ka pule Mele Manaka. No Manaola, he mea hou aku kāna e kaʻana aku ai i pili iā Mauna Kea. Merrie Monarch week brings artists from all over Hawaiʻi to...
People gathered in celebration of culture, and aloha ʻāina at this years Merrie Monarch Parade. Ma ka paikau Mele Manaka i hui like ai nā kānaka no ka hoʻolauleʻa ʻana i nā hana kuʻuna, keu hoʻi ʻo ke aloha ʻāina.
Over 3,000 attended the Kū Kiaʻi Rally on the grounds of ʻIolani Palace on Sunday, April 12, 2015. For long-time Aloha ʻĀina Activist Walter Ritte, who was celebrating his 70th birthday, there was no other place he wanted to be than with this next generation taking...
University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents Meeting April 16, 2015 UH Hilo Campus Hearing of Testimony on "The Management of Mauna Kea and the Mauna Kea Science Reserve."
Hundreds attended the Kū Kia‘i Mauna March from OHA offices to the State Capital in Honolulu on April 21, 2015. Thousands more tuned in on our live stream. This is a rebroadcast of the stream and the event as it unfolded.
(“Let’s make haupia with Kupuna Helen Haleola Lee Hong”) Larry Kimura visits Helen Haleola Lee Hong at the Keliihoomalu family residence in Kaimū in the Puna district of Hawai‘i island, to learn how to prepare haupia (coconut pudding) and talk story about earlier...
Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred to the Hawaiian...
An island-by-island survey of Hawaiian native species of birds, snails, fish and insects, all identified by their Hawaiian names and described through ʻōlelo noʻeau (wise sayings) in Hawaiian and English. Narrated by Ekela Kaniaupio and set to the classical guitar...
Inspired by the cool uplands and abundant reefs of the Kohala district, the volcano deity Pele, the sacred summit of Mauna Kea and their own cultural traditions, artists from throughout the Pacific and Pacific Rim come together on Hawai‘i island to create...
Hosted by well-known kupuna Eddie Kaanana, this video focuses on traditional Hawaiian values regarding the precious resource ka wai, fresh water. The respect for water sources such as streams and springs and the use of stream water from mauka to makai (mountain to...
Hawai‘i farmers, teachers, legal and medical experts and community activists share their perspectives on GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organisms), the genetic engineering of crops and the patenting of life forms. “Hawai’i has been called the GMO testing capitol of the...
Kahoʻolawe Aloha ʻĀina focuses on the cultural, political and military significance of the "target island" of Kaho‘olawe in the Hawaiian archipelago. The Hawaiian term aloha ‘āina refers to love of the land, the basis of Hawaiian cultural belief that animates the...
This video documents the battle over the water in Waiāhole Ditch on the island of O‘ahu, where taro farmers and long-time residents seek to reclaim the natural stream waters that were taken in the early 1900's by sugar plantations. Shot on location in the Windward...
instructional hula video A performance of the hula Ka Nani A‘o Ka‘ū (The Beauty of Ka‘ū) by Debbie Ryder on location at Ka Lae, southernmost point on the island of Hawai‘i, plus an interview with beloved kumu hula (hula master) George Na‘ope about the composing of the...
Various interviews and other video footage of the beloved Maui kupuna (elder) of the Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana, Harry Kunihi Mitchell. Documentation covers the period from 1982 through 1989. NĀ MAKA O KA ʻĀINA We are Joan Lander and Puhipau (1937-2016) of Nā Maka o ka...
Various interviews and other video footage of the beloved Maui kupuna (elder) of the Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana, Harry Kunihi Mitchell. Documentation covers the period from 1982 through 1989. NĀ MAKA O KA ʻĀINA We are Joan Lander and Puhipau (1937-2016) of Nā Maka o ka...
Various interviews and other video footage of the beloved Maui kupuna (elder) of the Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana, Harry Kunihi Mitchell. Documentation covers the period from 1982 through 1989. NĀ MAKA O KA ʻĀINA We are Joan Lander and Puhipau (1937-2016) of Nā Maka o ka...
Various interviews and other video footage of the beloved Maui kupuna (elder) of the Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana, Harry Kunihi Mitchell. Documentation covers the period from 1982 through 1989. NĀ MAKA O KA ʻĀINA We are Joan Lander and Puhipau (1937-2016) of Nā Maka o ka...
This video is set to a song, Na ‘Ono o ka ‘Aina (“The Delectable Taros of the Land”), inspired by renowned Hawaiian cultural educator Edith Kanaka’ole. Written by Kalani Meinecke and George Kahumoku, Jr. and performed by Kekuhi Kanahele and friends, the song praises...
Fisherman Ray Kalili supervises a neighborhood hukilau, a group fishing technique, on O‘ahu's windward coast. Ethno-historian Marion Kelly describes the use of fishponds in old Hawai‘i. Navigator Nainoa Thompson explains the art of wayfinding, or long-distance ocean...
Fisherman Kaiana Ahmad takes us out on an aku (tuna) boat for a day of deep-sea fishing and Keoki Fukumitsu shares his life as a taro grower in Hakipu‘u on the island of O‘ahu. Kaiana shows how sea birds help fishermen find schools of fish and demonstrates the use of...
Ku Kahakalau visits with Katherine Maunakea on the Wai‘anae coast. After relating a short history of her early life in Kula, Maui, in the Puna district of the Big Island and in Nānākuli on O‘ahu, Katherine shares her knowledge of lāʻau lapaʻau (medicinal plants),...
This video is set to a song, Na ‘Ono o ka ‘Aina (“The Delectable Taros of the Land”), inspired by renowned Hawaiian cultural educator Edith Kanaka’ole. Written by Kalani Meinecke and George Kahumoku, Jr. and performed by Kekuhi Kanahele and friends, the song praises...
