Hi‘ilei Mano‘i-Hyde is an eighth grader at Ke Kula Kaiapuni ‘o Ānuenue, the Hawaiian-language immersion school in Pālolo, O‘ahu. Over the past Labor Day weekend, she traveled to Maui o Kama with her hālau hula in order to visit those places for which her hula class has been learning songs and dances. She kept a puke ho‘omana‘o -- a journal -- of her three-day trip...

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The International Festival of Canoes has been held every year in Lāhainā, Maui, since 1999. Bringing together a diverse group of master carvers and their apprentices from across the Pacific to celebrate their canoe traditions, the festival’s focal point is each crew’s completion of an entire wa‘a within a two-week period. A friend and I visited Lāhainā near the close of the festival...


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In the late 1960s, Mary Kawena Pukui recorded a series of "little Hawaiian verses for children." Her collection included mele for learning the alphabet and the multiplication tables, for playing hide and seek, for remembering the names of the districts of Ka‘ū, for teasing sullen playmates, and for making string figures. Her purpose, she explained, was preservation. She hoped that Hawaiian children would learn these mele...


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A collection of photos documenting the restoration of Keanakamanō, including opening and closing ceremonies, the art of uhau humu pōhaku, and the restored areas around the site.


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