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Property Tax Exemption Workshop | Waimea, Kaua‘iWEDNESDAY AUG 20 | 5-7PMWAIMEA PUBLIC LIBRARY9750 KAUMUALII HWY, WAIMEA ...
13/08/2025

Property Tax Exemption Workshop | Waimea, Kaua‘i

WEDNESDAY AUG 20 | 5-7PM
WAIMEA PUBLIC LIBRARY
9750 KAUMUALII HWY, WAIMEA (Pupus provided!)

Do you have questions about what tax relief options are available to your 'ohana? Would you like to file a tax exemption application with support from partners at the tax office, before the September 30 deadline?

Join us as we partner with the County of Kaua'i Real Property Division, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Waimea Public Library for our second Property Tax Exemption Workshop!

RSVP TODAY!
https://bit.ly/4lUYj4Q

County of Kaua'i , Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaiʻi State Public Library System

It is the depth of moʻolelo that guides Frank in her ongoing curiosity of what lies beneath the layers of sedge in Kawai...
13/08/2025

It is the depth of moʻolelo that guides Frank in her ongoing curiosity of what lies beneath the layers of sedge in Kawainui – and what can one day be restored. The slimy world of mud and microbes offers both molecular structure and ancient stories of moʻo wāhine.

“You can say all of this culture is science, because it is – 100%!” exclaimed Frank.

Read more at kawaiola.news/aina/from-moolelo-to-molecules-the-restorative-science-of-dr-kiana-frank/

Ka Mahiole Kilakila a Kaumualiʻi (The Majestic Helmet of Kaumualiʻi)Ua makana ʻo Kamehameha i ka mahiole, kekahi ʻahuʻul...
11/08/2025

Ka Mahiole Kilakila a Kaumualiʻi (The Majestic Helmet of Kaumualiʻi)

Ua makana ʻo Kamehameha i ka mahiole, kekahi ʻahuʻula, me kekahi mau mea waiwai ʻē aʻe iā Kaumualiʻi ma kekahi kuʻikahi ʻaelike ma ka makahiki 1810. Ua hoʻāʻo ʻo Kamehameha e naʻi iā Kauaʻi e like me nā mokupuni aʻe akā ua pīholo kāna mau waʻa peleleu i ka ʻino ma kekahi hoʻāʻo a ma kekahi hoʻāʻo hou, ua loaʻa lākou puʻali koa i ka maʻi ʻōkuʻu.

ʻO ka mahiole, ua mālama ʻia e kekahi mikioneli ʻo Whitney kona inoa a laila ua hoʻoili ia iā Pīhopa.

Kiʻi: Edward Kawānanakoa me ka mahiole, a ʻahu a kona kupuna ʻo Kaumualiʻi

Heluhelu mau i kawaiola.news/columns/ka-naauao-o-na-kupuna/ka-mahiole-kilakila-a-kaumualii

Recent federal actions and orders threaten the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and Sanctuary with extractive ...
08/08/2025

Recent federal actions and orders threaten the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and Sanctuary with extractive commercial fishing in conflict with traditional Hawaiian sustainable fishing practices.

Read Kiaʻi Papahānaumokuākea: Protecting Our Puʻuhonua from Commercial Fishing online at kawaiola.news/aina/kiai-papahanaumokuakea-protecting-our-puuhonua-from-commercial-fishing/

Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project

The New Zealand Minister for Social Housing and Māori Development, Tama Potaka, and his team visited OHA on Monday, 8/4...
05/08/2025

The New Zealand Minister for Social Housing and Māori Development, Tama Potaka, and his team visited OHA on Monday, 8/4 to meet with BAE Committee Chair Brickwood Galuteria, Trustee Kealiʻi Akina and CEO Stacy Kealohalani Ferreira and talk about his work in the Māori Development. Discussions also addressed Indigenous trade, special economic zones and Indigenous partnership and investment in infrastructure.

Kaʻiana was a high chief of Kauaʻi who left Hawaiʻi in 1787 aboard the vessel Nootka as the guest of Captain John Meares...
05/08/2025

Kaʻiana was a high chief of Kauaʻi who left Hawaiʻi in 1787 aboard the vessel Nootka as the guest of Captain John Meares. It is likely that he was the first aliʻi to travel abroad on a Western ship – although he was not the first Hawaiian. That distinction went to a woman whose name is recorded as “Winee.” She left Hawaiʻi about three months before Kaʻiana on another ship, the Imperial Eagle, as the personal servant of the captain’s wife.

Kaʻiana traveled around the Pacific Rim, visiting China, the Philippines and the Northwest Coast of America. When he returned to Hawaiʻi he was fluent in English and had amassed a large collection of Western weapons – assets Kamehameha was quick to leverage. Kaʻiana and his two brothers joined Kamehameha’s army and helped the future king secure the islands of Hawaiʻi and Maui.

Sibbett said that focusing the story on Kaʻiana instead of Kamehameha “made it really interesting. He was a character who had traveled the world. It fit perfect – not just for storytelling. It worked great for Jason too because he is also very worldly. He is Kanaka, but he’s traveled.”

"Chief of War: A Turning Point for Native Hawaiian Storytelling" KaWaiOla.News

Apple TV Prideofgypsies Chief of War

The story of Kamehameha is a lesson in Hawaiian thought. It is a reminder to believe in the ability to bend the universe...
04/08/2025

The story of Kamehameha is a lesson in Hawaiian thought. It is a reminder to believe in the ability to bend the universe to one’s will. Through physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual discipline, and the appropriate application of mana, the greatest among us tap into the riptides of reality and pull what is needed into being. Prophecies exist, but they do not fulfill themselves.

Many aliʻi over the centuries had seen the vision that uniting all the islands under one rule would bring peace, security, and wellbeing to the people. Kamehameha understood this deeply. Prophecy, preparation, and the counsel of trusted peers convinced him that he held the best chance of making it real.

He gave up the quiet life he loved, knowing the path ahead would be full of struggle. And he knew what kind of message he needed to give his people to prepare them.

Full article KaWaiOla.News

More "Think Hawaiian" kainoahorcajo.com/newsletter -horcajo-

A community-led groundbreaking ceremony and celebration in July was a significant milestone as construction begins on in...
03/08/2025

A community-led groundbreaking ceremony and celebration in July was a significant milestone as construction begins on infrastructure and facilities supporting community-driven cultural and agricultural revitalization on lands disconnected by highway construction.

Nestled between the Likelike Highway and H-3 interchange, the loʻi kalo of Luluku were once part of a thriving food production system. For decades, however, this ʻāina lay dormant, cut off from access and neglected despite its deep ancestral significance.

Thanks to the efforts of local farmers, educators, and cultural practitioners, this land is again becoming a place of learning, healing, and abundance.

“To get to this point, it has been an amazing journey full of trials, pain, and loss,” said Mark Paikuli-Stride of the Luluku Farmers’ Association & Aloha ʻĀina Health and Learning Center (LFA-AHLC).

Read "Restoring Luluku: Breaking Ground, Rooted in Community" By Ardena Sanoe Saarinen, M.S., OHA HLID Project Coordinator at KaWaiOla.News.

Koolau Foundation

Years ago, Thomas Paʻakaiokahonua “Paʻa” Sibbett was working at Kualoa Ranch when he read in a newspaper article that di...
02/08/2025

Years ago, Thomas Paʻakaiokahonua “Paʻa” Sibbett was working at Kualoa Ranch when he read in a newspaper article that discussions were in the works about making a film about Kamehameha. He remembers thinking to himself, “if Hollywood wants Hawaiian stories I can do that.”

The spark that ignited within him that day set a new trajectory for his life. Raised in Washington state as a child of the diaspora, Sibbett returned to the continent and began writing scripts. He would write 12 scripts before selling his first one.

Immersing himself in the world of movie-making, he soon formed a friendship with another ʻŌiwi raised in the diaspora, an up-and-coming actor named Jason Namakaeha Momoa, and they began collaborating on projects – a partnership that has now spanned 15 years.

"Chief of War: A Turning Point for Native Hawaiian Storytelling" KaWaiOla.News

Apple TV Prideofgypsies Chief of War

The long-anticipated series about the unification of the Hawaiian Islands co-written by Jason Momoa and Thomas Paʻa Sibb...
01/08/2025

The long-anticipated series about the unification of the Hawaiian Islands co-written by Jason Momoa and Thomas Paʻa Sibbett premieres August 1 on Apple TV+ to a global audience. More than just entertainment, it is a deeply personal endeavor for the co-creators and, as the first story written by Hawaiians about Hawaiians to be produced on this scale, it represents a turning point in Native Hawaiian storytelling.

Read the August issue of KaWaiOla.News online for more on Chief of War and the Hawaiian loea (experts and practitioners) who consulted on the series.

Prideofgypsies Apple TV

Today is Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea - Hawaiian Restoration Day first celebrated in 1843 at the restoration of sovereignty of the Kin...
01/08/2025

Today is Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea - Hawaiian Restoration Day first celebrated in 1843 at the restoration of sovereignty of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from the occupation of Captain Lord George Paulet, of HMS Carysfort, claiming Hawaiʻi under British rule.

After a five-month occupation, Rear-Admiral Thomas, the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station, raised the Hawaiian flag in place of the Union Jack ending the occupation and affirming the independence and sovereignty of the Hawaiian kingdom. The site of the ceremony was later made into a park in honor of the event and named Thomas Square.

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