Indigenous educators connect with ʻāina, ʻike at UH Mānoa

Indigenous educators work in Kānewai loʻi at UH Mānoa.

Hawaiʻinuiākea students teach WINHEC participants about kalo.

Participants learn about traditional imu cooking from Hawaiʻinuiākea students.

More than 100 participants from across the globe flew to Hawaiʻi for WINHEC 2024.

Link to video (details below): https://go.hawaii.edu/3wa

***VOSOT script below for consideration***

WHO: UH Mānoa Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge

WHAT: Hosting Indigenous educators from around the world, including tribes from Norway, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Canada, for the annual WINHEC 2024 or (World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium) conference. Participants also engage in ʻāina-based learning at UH Mānoa, home to the nation’s largest school of Indigenous studies.

WHEN: September 26-30

WHERE: Waikīkī and UH Mānoa

WHY: To foster the growth and advance Indigenous studies within higher education.

MORE INFORMATION 

• The WINHEC conference has been held in places such as Alaska and Canada in previous years. It was first established in August 2002 at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in Alberta, Canada. 
• Born in 2007, UH Mānoa Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge (HSHK) houses Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language, Ka Papa Lo‘i O Kānewai Cultural Garden and Native Hawaiian Student Services. 
• HSHK is the first new school or college established on the Mānoa campus since 1982, and it is the only college of Indigenous knowledge in a Research I institution in the United States.
• The mission of Hawai‘inuiākea is to pursue, perpetuate, research, and revitalize all areas and forms of Hawaiian knowledge.

B-ROLL: (1 minute, 34 seconds)

:00-0:32 -  Indigenous protocol (Credit: ʻŌiwiTV)

0:32-0:56 - WINHEC participants working in loʻi

0:56-1:15 - Cleaning taro

1:15-1:27 - Traditional imu

1:27-1:34 - Fresh kalua pig from imu 

SOUNDBITES:

Jon Osorio/Dean, UH Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge   

(22 seconds) 

“This is why it’s so important for Kānaka Maoli I think to own the fact that we are Indigenous native peoples and that we have the spiritual connection to the land, to the waters, to our ancestors that is so similar to Sami, Apache, Māori, regardless of where people come from.”

(7 seconds)

“The things that our ancestors knew about how to live off of this land, we believe are becoming increasingly important.”

Roxanne Delille/Dean, Fond du Lac Tribal Community College

(9 seconds)

“When we think about that old knowledge, how do we pick that back up again and reclaim it so that we become stronger in who we are. That's the beauty of it!”

***VOSOT SCRIPT***

INTRO (pronunciation guide for Hawaiʻinuiākea: HAWAIʻI-NU-WEE-AH-KEH-YAH)

Hawaiʻinuiākea, the Hawaiian Studies department at UH Mānoa, is welcoming more than a hundred Indigenous educators from around the globe.

<SOUND FULL: Indigenous protocol>

VO (Suggested super: UH hosts Indigenous educators from around globe)

This week, the university is hosting an annual conference dedicated to promoting Indigenous studies in higher education. Tribes from as far as Norway and Canada are engaging in hands-on, ‘āina-based learning, including traditional kalo farming and imu cooking.

SOT (Super: Jon Osorio/Dean, UH Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge)   

<“This is why it’s so important for Kānaka Maoli, I think, to own the fact that we are Indigenous native peoples and that we have the spiritual connection to the land, to the waters, to our ancestors that is so similar to Sami, Apache, Māori, regardless of where people come from.”>

SOT (Super: Roxanne Delille/Dean, Fond du Lac Tribal Community College)

<“When we think about that old knowledge, how do we pick that back up again and reclaim it so that we become stronger in who we are. That’s the beauty of it!”>

VO

The conference has been held in places such as Alaska and Canada in previous years. Hawaiʻinuiākea is home to the nation’s largest school of Indigenous studies.