AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development

This is a story about a father with a rusty three-prong. A three-prong is a fishing spear. It has three barbs at one end of a shaft and surgical rubber attached to the other end. The surgical rubber is stretched up the shaft of the spear and held in place with a tight grip over the shaft. A quick release of the grip will propel the spear.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [13]

Article

REBUILDING THE ‘AUWAI: Connecting ecology, economy and education in Hawaiian schools [14]

Read more [15]
[16]

Author:

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘öpua

‘Auwai are irrigation ditches developed by Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) to enable sustainable, prolific, wetland taro cultivation.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [17]

Article

CONTEMPLATING KULEANA: Reflections on the rights and responsibilities of non-indigenous participants [18]

Read more [19]
[20]

Author:

Julie Kaomea

This article contemplates the rights and responsibilities of non-indigenous participants in programmes for indigenous education.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [21]

Article

WAHI A KAHIKO: Place names as vehicles of ancestral memory [22]

Read more [23]
[24]

Author:

Katrina-Ann R. Kapä’anaokaläokeola Näkoa Oliveira

Hawai‘i is the most isolated landmass in the world and thus ancient Native Hawaiians relied on the local resources of the land, sea and sky for their sustenance.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [25]

Article

SOCIAL JUSTICE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH IMPERATIVE FOR KĀNAKA MAOLI [26]

Read more [27]
[28]

Author:

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, Andrea H. Nacapoy and Kä‘ohimanu Dang

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [29]

Article

ALI‘I SELECTIVE APPROPRIATION OF MODERNITY: Examining colonial assumptions in Hawai‘i prior to 1893 [30]

Read more [31]
[32]

Author:

Kamanamaikalani B. Beamer

Accounts of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1810–1893) have typically argued that since the “discovery” of 1778, the islands have been progressively colonized—s if the first footfall of Captain James Cook set off a sequence of inevitable events that led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893 and annexation by the United States in 1898.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [33]

Article

THE SHIFTING ROLE OF THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION IN HAWAI‘I DURING THE 19th CENTURY [34]

Read more [35]
[36]

Author:

C. Kalani Beyer

Demonstrating how the language of instruction served a shifting role during the 19th century is the means by which this study achieves its purpose of providing the background for the current conflict surrounding the Hawaiian language immersion movement. The first role the language of instruction served was to help Hawai‘i become a modern nation.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [37]

Article

A KAU AKU I NĀ MAMO [38]

Read more [39]
[40]

Author:

Kekeha Solis

He mea nui ka ‘olelo no‘eau ma ka ho‘ola hou ‘ana i ko kokou ‘olelo aloha a me ka hana, ‘oiai, no ka hapanui o kokou, ‘o ka ‘olelo haole ka mea ‘a‘ai i ka no‘ono‘o kanaka, a i kekahi manawa, ‘o ia ka ‘olelo i honai ‘ia ai kekahi mai ka wo e huli ana ke alo i luna, a ka wo kanaka makua.

Published in:

Journal: AlterNative Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: Ke Ala Hou Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development [41]