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The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support provides opportunities, resources, and services that promote faculty and staff career development and recognizes excellence in teaching within the campus community.

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Author Pualani Kanakaole Kanahele

by Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele

Ka Honua Ola is a collection of twenty-five chants from the epic tale of Pele and Hiʻiaka. These mele reveal the richness of Hawaiian genealogy, migration, poetry, and hula. Through skillful interpretations and ancestral memory, Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele summons ancient wisdom and renews our profound connection to the living earth.

About the author: Pua is of pure Hawaiian descent and is responsible to her ancestral lineage. She was raised in a Hula tradition that spans many generations.  She was educated in Western institutions and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree.  At the age of 69 in the winter of 2006 Pua received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She understands this formal Western education system and is responsible to its philosophy, concepts, and the points of view noted in the process of direct learning.

Pua is the President of Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, a small family foundation that focuses on promoting and elevating cultural knowledge and intelligence.  She is a Kumu Hula for Hālau o Kekuhi, also a family Hawaiian traditional dance school.  Pua has retired from the classrooms of Hawaiʻi Community College and is now Director of Hawaiian Traditional Knowledge Research with Hawaiʻi Community College.

A Hawaiian culture expert, Pua is a consultant in many areas of Hawaiian lifeways.

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Land Acknowledgment

Aloha. We are the Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support.

We would like to acknowledge the ‘āina on which we gather, O‘ahu, is part of the larger territory recognized by Indigenous Hawaiians as their ancestral grandmother, Papahānaumoku.

We recognize that Her Majesty Queen Lili‘uokalani yielded the Hawaiian Kingdom and these territories under duress and protest to the United States to avoid the bloodshed of her people. We further recognize that Hawai‘i remains an illegally occupied state of America.

We recognize that each moment we are in Hawai‘i she nourishes and gifts us with the opportunity to breathe her air, eat from her soils, drink from her waters, bathe in her sun, swim in her oceans, be kissed by her rains, and be embraced by her winds. We further recognize that generations of Indigenous Hawaiians and their knowledge systems shaped Hawai‘i in sustainable ways that allow us to enjoy these gifts today. For this we are grateful and as a guest, we seek to support the varied strategies that the Indigenous peoples of Hawai‘i are using to protect their land and their communities, and we commit to dedicating time and resources to working in solidarity. Mahalo.