Reflecting upon the moʻolelo of our kūpuna

Weaving stories of aloha ʻāina

Ka ulana ʻana i ka piko

Kēlā me Kēia

Our institute is committed to fostering a rooted, resilient, and responsive community that advances UH Mānoa as a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, grounded in aloha ʻāina. To effectuate this goal, we believe it is critical to highlight the voices of our ancestors. These weekly snippets will hopefully lead readers to better integrate and weave these lessons from the past into every day life.

He loa ka ʻimina o ke ala o Hawaiʻi ʻimi loa.

Recent posts

No Nā Makani

The usual winds of Lele [Lāhainā]: The Kaomi, a wind between Molokaʻi and Lahaina. If this wind is extremely strong, then there will be a great deal of rain in Kāʻanapali, drenching it, and ʻAkamu and Nāhaku will shiver; then it is called the Nahua wind . . .

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Ko Lahainaluna Mau Mea Hou

When the Kona wind blew in from the South, this wind also carried raindrops and poured these bits of water into the streams, valleys and leaves of the forest trees, pouring down on the surface of the rivers, washing litter to the shore . . .

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Ka Malu Ulu a o Lele

The wind here in Lele [Lāhainā]. There was a great deal of wind blowing strongly, so that the plants of Lele resembled the saying, “the Coconut fronds are doubly bent, the leaves of the naenae are open.”

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No Lāhainā

This is Lāhainā on Maui of Kamalālāwalu, a land greatly loved by the Chiefs in ancient times up until the present. Lāhainā is an abundantly fertile land . . .

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