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I Ulu I Ka ''Aina: Land
ISBN: 9780824839994
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Hawaiians -- Land tenure; Hawaii -- Poetry; American poetry -- Hawaii;

I Ulu I Ka 'Āina: Land, the second publication in the Hawai'inuiākea series, tackles the subject of the Kanaka (Hawaiian) connection to the 'āina (land) through articles, poetry, art, and photography. From the remarkable cover illustration by artist April Drexel to the essays in this volume, there is no mistaking the insistent affirmation that Kanaka are inseparable from the 'āina. This work calls the reader to acknowledge the Kanaka's intimate connection to the islands. The alienation of 'āina from Kanaka so accelerated and intensified over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that there are few today who consciously recognize the enormous harm that has been done physically, emotionally, and spiritually by that separation.

The evidence of harm is everywhere: crippled and dysfunctional families, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, disproportionately high incidences of arrest and incarceration, and alarming health and mortality statistics, some of which may be traced to diet and lifestyle, which themselves are traceable to the separation from 'āina. This volume articulates the critical needs that call the Kanaka back to the 'āina and invites the reader to remember the thousands of years that our ancestors walked, named, and planted the land and were themselves planted in it.

Contributors: Carlos Andrade, Kamana Beamer, April Drexel, Dana Nāone Hall, Neil Hannahs, Lia O'Neill Keawe, Jamaica Osorio, No'eau Peralto, Kekailoa Perry, and Kaiwipuni Lipe with Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa.

Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio is dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and professor at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.Andrade Carlos :

Carlos Andrade is associate professor and current director of the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies in the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawai'i.Beamer Kamanamaikalani :

Kamanamaikalani Beamer is the inaugural Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature, and the Environment at Hawai'inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and director of Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He served two terms on the State of Hawai'i Commission on Water Resource Management.Hall Dana Naone :

Dana Naone Hall continues to advocate for the protection of coastal resources and shoreline access, as well as the preservation of historic and cultural sites. She lives in Ha'ikū, Maui.