I Ulu I Ka Aina: Land

Contributors

113 Carlos Andrade, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Hawaiian Studies from Kaua‘i, whose research and published work has focused on the ‘āina, its inscription on the soul and relationship with Hoa’aina. Andrade is also an accomplished haku mele in both English and Hawaiian demonstrating how mele and Hawaiian poetic forms can be maps, are geographic repositories of ‘ike, and essential for Kanaka Maoli identity. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Hui ‘Āina Momona Program at the Center for Hawaiian Studies from Waimea, Moku o Keawe. He occupies a shared position with the Richardson School of Law and teaches courses on the Māhele, Resource Management, and Hawaiian Statecraft Theory. He has a new book about to appear with Kamehameha Press entitled No Mākou ka Mana, which examines agency and chiefly leadership of the Hawaiian Kingdom. April Drexel is the youngest of four children born to Kalokeo Sarona Waiamau of Waipouli, Kaua‘i and Gilbert D. Drexel of Coatsville, Pennsylvania, . She has spent a lifetime within the ahupua‘a of Wai‘anae Uka (Wahiawā), and special hardcore educational summers during her youth in Mākua, O‘ahu. Drexel is perpetually ABD in the field of history, specializing in Hawaiian, Pacific, American & World concentrations. She earned an MFA in 1989 and a BFA in 1983 in drawing & painting with an emphasis in Pacific Art History from UH Mānoa. In 1982, she earned an AA in liberal arts with a focus in art (intaglio printing) and geography from Leeward Community College in Pu‘uloa, O‘ahu. She is a 1978 graduate of the Kamehameha Schools 1978 in Kapālama, O‘ahu. Currently Drexel is an assistant professor at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, a department of the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at UH Mānoa. Dana Nāone Hall is a long-time Kanaka Maoli activist from Maui who has been one of the most knowledgeable and effective advocates for the iwi kūpuna and for the proper treatment of ancestral burial sites that have been disturbed by urbanization. She has been a leader in cultural, environmental and historic preservation issues for nearly 30 years. Contributors 114 | I Ulu i ka ‘Āina Neil J. Hannahs is the director of Kamehameha Schools Legacy Lands division responsible for the management of all of the Kamehameha Estate’s non-commercial properties. Hannahs is also the founder of the First Nations Futures Fellowship which is training Kanaka Maoli, Maori and Native Alaskan resource managers to develop methods consistent with traditional and modern sciences. Hannahs is from Mā‘ili, O‘ahu. Kaiwipuni Lipe is a graduate of Kamakakūokalani and is currently a doctoral student in Education at UHM. Formerly she held the position of director for the Native Hawaiian Scholars Program at College Connections Hawai‘i, a program supporting native Hawaiian student access to higher education. She is the daughter of her interviewee, Professor Lilikalā Kame‘eleihiwa. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is is a kanaka maoli wahine poet / activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley (O‘ahu) to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Jamaica’s artistic experience ranges from poetry writing/ performance to fiction/ essay writing and music while her academic interest span from ‘ike Hawai‘i, ethnic studies, literature, politics and critical race theory. Jamaica is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford (BA) and New York University (MA) and is just beginning her PhD studies in English (Mo‘olelo) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Jonathan K. Osorio is a historian and author of 19th century political history and the contemporary Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Professor of Hawaiian Studies who teaches courses in Hawaiian music and identity, law and history, 19th and 20th history of Hawai‘i and Indigenous research methodologies . Osorio is from Hilo, Moku o Keawe. Leon No‘eau Peralto, a PhD student in Political Science, is a recent MA graduate in Hawaiian Studies from Hilo, Hawai‘i. Engaged in community activism and research in his kulāiwi of Hāmākua, Peralto’s MA project worked in collaboration with Hui Mālama i ke Ala ‘Ūlili to retell mo‘olelo of Hāmākua and provide community access to primary sources of ancestral knowledge in the ahupua‘a of Koholālele, Kūka‘iau, Kainehe, and Ka‘ohe. Wendell Kekailoa Perry, JD is an Associate Professor of Hawaiian Studies from Honolulu, O‘ahu and a...