The Value of Hawaii 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions

How to Use this Book

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK This book is by no means a definitive or all-encompassing collection of everything we value about Hawai‘i. We hope you take this collection as a starting point for more wonderful and inspiring ideas, projects, conversations. For more possibilities. For curriculum materials, events, additional stories, and videos related to this book and the first The Value of Hawai‘i, visit our website, at http://thevalueofhawaii.com. This book can be read from cover to cover, or one can jump around, heeding the call of whatever title beckons. Here are some suggestions for alternative clusters of essays (listed by author’s name), if you are looking for writings on particular topics: HEALTH Elise Leimomi Dela Cruz-Talbert Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula Cheryse Julitta Kauikeolani Sana Mark Patterson Dawn Mahi RELATIONSHIPS WITH ELDERS Kamanamaikalani Beamer Jeffrey Tangonon Acido Derek Kurisu Bonnie Kahape‘a-Tanner Kainani Kahaunaele Dawn Mahi Sania Fa‘amaile Betty P. Ickes Cade Watanabe FOOD Derek Kurisu Cheryse Julitta Kauikeolani Sana Hi‘ilei Kawelo Elise Leimomi Dela Cruz-Talbert Dean Itsuji Saranillio Hunter Heaivilin ix x The Value of Hawai‘i 2 THE SACRED Jeffrey Tangonan Acido Häwane Rios Cheryse Julitta Kauikeolani Sana Mark Patterson LAND Häwane Rios Matt N. Yamashita Kamanamaikalani Beamer Dawn Mahi Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio EDUCATION Sania Fa‘amaile Betty P. Ickes Ryan Oishi Tina Grandinetti Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Lyz Soto Prime SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Eri Oura Cade Watanabe Jeffrey Tangonan Acido Matt N. Yamashita Kainani Kahaunaele Lyz Soto Keone Kealoha SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMIES Dean Itsuji Saranillio Consuelo Agarpao Gouveia Hi‘ilei Kawelo Keone Kealoha GENDER AND THE BODY Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Eri Oura Dawn Mahi Mark Patterson FUTURES AND FORESIGHT Aubrey Morgan Yee Dean Itsuji Saranillio Makena Coffman Sean Connelly Hunter Heaivilin How to Use This Book xi A NOTE ON THE TEXT All glosses and translations included in this collection have been generously provided by the authors of each individual essay. In light of the interpretive nature of translation and the historically damaging effects it has sometimes had in the Pacific, we suggest you take each gloss and translation as an opportunity to do further research or to approach other Pacific or Hawaiianlanguage specialists to supplement the interpretations our authors have provided . We acknowledge the fluidity of the Internet, but all the web sites and links cited in these essays were live on September 17, 2013. ...