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First Nations – those representing indigenous communities – need leaders who can better their people’s lives through strong values and wise integrated asset / resource management solutions.

First Nations Futures Program  |  www.fnfp.org
The First Nations Futures Program is an international alliance between respected institutions with a common interest, yet diverse perspectives, in fostering well-being by enhancing the intersect of our environment, economy and culture. Members of this alliance seek to perpetuate cultural identity by honoring their familial relationship with their respective domains, practicing culturally-grounded stewardship of their assets, and leveraging broader scale impact of systems that influence their environment, political policy and economy.
The First Nations' Futures Institute focuses on building capacity in these communitiesl.

PARTNERS INCLUDE:
STANFORD UNIVERSITY; KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS; UH-MĀNOA; TE RUNANGA O NGAI TAHU; UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY; FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE; SEAALASKA CORPORATION, POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY, HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION, AND HAWAIIAN AIRLINES

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Digital Natives will teach Native Hawaiian high school students the fundamentals of social media advocacy as they create regular content to inspire ‘ōpio civic engagement. Program participants will engage in a TikTok residency program supported by a consortium of Native Hawaiian serving organizations and gain proficiency in advocacy skills such as video production, public speaking, writing, and media relations. Digital Natives will build the capacity of ‘ōpio to advocate in their own interests, and to achieve age-equitable political participation that will inform resilient and dynamic Hawai‘i communities.

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The goal of the project is to develop a bilingual talk story guide for Kapaemahu, an animated short film narrated in Olelo Niihau, that revives a long lost Hawaiian legend and poses questions about the ways in which cultural narratives, wisdom, and traditions are understood, preserved and perpetuated --  or ignored, suppressed and erased.

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Nā Kumuwaiwai Hoʻoulu ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

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Na ka Pūnana Leo o Hilo, Ke Kula ʻO Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu me Ka Haka ʻUla ʻO Keʻelikōlani kēia hanana.

He hanana hoʻōla mauli ola Hawaiʻi  e mālama kū makahiki ʻia nei ma Pepeluali; ʻakahi a mālama ʻia ka makahiki 18 o ia hanana.
ʻO ka hoʻāhuwale ʻana i ke ola o ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi i ke kaiaulu a me ke alu like pū ʻana o ka poʻe mai ka pae kamaliʻi a i ka pae kupuna ma luna o ka hoʻokahi hanana nui nā pahuhopu ʻelua o ka Pūlama Mauli Ola.

Pūlama Mauli Ola is  a Unified Hawaiian Language and Cultural Event held annual for the past 18 years through the collaboration of Pūnana Leo o Hilo, Ke Kula ʻO Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu and Ka Haka ʻUla ʻO Ke ʻelikōlani in Keaʻau, Puna, Hawaiʻi. Pūlama Mauli Ola is for the community to witness and be immersed in the life of the Hawaiian language, and value the history through cultural activities, performances, and demonstrations.

In a literal sense, the word pūlama means to cherish or hold close and mauli ola is our life force. This life force, the Hawaiian language, motivates us to hoʻoulu lāhui aloha or to raise a beloved nation through the continuation of our mother tongue. Pūlama Mauli Ola is a day to become agents of positive change by creating an experience for the community to build a connection with our language and culture. We provide opportunities for the public to participate in activities based upon the values of our Hawaiian history and continue to thrive and flourish as a way of life in 2021. These values of cultural revitalization are evident at our event through mālama ʻāina (active-land learning) and mālama ʻike kuʻuna (perpetuating traditional knowledge).

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San Diego: Halau O Makani Kai
Halau O Makani Kai
Christine Miranda, Phone: 619-665-5851

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawai`i

Hawai`i

Hilo: Keolalaulani Halau `Olapa O Laka
Aloha Dalire & Charles Jimenez, Phone: 808-864-5549 or 769-1443

Holualoa: Na Hula O Pohukaina
Francis Henry Pohukaina Keanaaina, Phone: 808-322-7228

Kailua-Kona: Halau Hula Na Pua U`i O Hawai`i
Etua Lopes, Phone: 808-323-9741

Kaua`i

Hanalei: Ohana `O Hanalei
Naomi Yokotake, Phone: 808-826-1011

Kapa`a: Na Hui O Kamakaokalani
Maka Herrod, Phone: 808-822-7917

Kapa`a: Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i
Keahi Manea, Phone: 808-822-9447

Kapa`a: Halau Hula O Ka Lama Noweo Kau I Ka `Ohu
Ka`ohu Harada, Phone: 808-754-1266

Koloa: Ha`awi Hemolele `O Keakawaiola
Jessie Keakawaiola Jardin, Phone: 808-742-7042

Lihu`e: Ilima Rivera's Hula Studio
Ilima Rivera, Phone: 808-822-5929

Lihu`e: Healani's Hula Halau
Beverly Apana Muraoka, Phone: 808-822-1451

Princeville: Halau Hula Na Lei Kupua
Susan Pa`iniu Floyd & Fern Merle-Jones, Phone: 808-828-1342 or 639-0964

Maui

Moloka`i

O`ahu

Aiea: Halau Hula Olana
Olana & Howard Ai, Phone: 808-487-3451

Hawai`i Kai: Halau Hula `o Namakahulali
Shirley Kanemura Recca, Phone: 808-395-0151

Honolulu: Halau Hula O Kahokuloa
Melvin Lantaka, Phone: 808-593-2323

Honolulu: Hula Halau O Pohai Kealoha
Kealoha Kalama, Phone: 808-841-3132

Honolulu: Hula Hui `O Kamalei
Kamalei Staraka, Phone: 808-597-8117

Honolulu: Hula Hui O Kapunahala
Carolee Nishi, Phone: 808-538-7016

Honolulu: Puanani Alama's Hula Studio
Puanani Alama, Phone: 808-735-2552

Honolulu: Leilani Alama's Hula Studio
Leilani Alama, Phone: 808-734-1225

Honolulu: Halau Hawai`i
Karen Aiu, Phone: 808-226-0600

Kane`ohe: Keolalaulani Halau `Olapa O Laka
Aloha Dalire, Phone: (none)

Lai`e: Hui Ho`oulu Aloha
Cy Bridges, Phone: 808-293-3005

Pearl City: Joan S. Lindsey Hula Studio
Joan S. Lindsey, Phone: 808-455-4810

Idaho

Boise: Aloha Club Dancers
Kaimana Chee, Phone: 208-367-0637

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nevada

Las Vegas: Keiki `O Mokiao
Pikake & Lopaka Mokiao, Phone: 702-649-4294

Las Vegas: Nani Lei E
Leslie Reynolds, Phone: 702-889-9102

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Bedford: A`ohe i pau ke ike i kau Hālau
Richard Peters, Phone: 817-540-2877

San Antonio: Nā Pua O Hawaiʻi
Julie & Lou McCabe, Phone: 210-654-0149

Utah

Virginia

Washington

Port Orchard: Halau Hula Kanika Pahu "O" Lohiau
Roderick Escolta, Phone: 360-871-4928

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Australia

Austria

Brazil

Canada

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

Ontario

Richmond Hill: Halau Hula O Kaleiu`iokalani
U`ilani Cruz, Phone: 647-519-2226

Dominican Republic

Finland

France

French Polynesia

Papeete: Hula Halau `O Makalapua
Myrtille Sarciaux, Phone: 689-75-99-69

Germany

Guam

Hong Kong

Indonesia

Italy

Japan

Tokyo: Noelani School of Polynesian Dance
Noelani Nakamura, Phone: 81-147-144-5616

Tokyo: Keolalaulani Halau `Olapa O Laka - Japan
Aloha Dalire, Phone: 011-81-354-737834

Mexico

Puebla: Ohana O Na Kai
Marcela Bermudez Moreno, Phone: 222-756-1229

Netherlands

Almere-Stad: Hawaiian Treasures
Regina Butteling, Phone: 31-36-5330957

New Zealand

Norway

Portugal

Singapore

Hālau Hula Kealohilani
Kealohilani Mayuzumi, Phone: +65 9725 2146

Spain

Switzerland

Taiwan

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San Diego: Halau O Makani Kai Halau O Makani Kai Christine Miranda, Phone: 619-665-5851 Hawai`i Hilo: Keolalaulani Halau `Olapa O Laka Aloha Dalire & Charles Jimenez, Phone: 808-864-5549 or 769-1443 Holualoa: Na Hula O Pohukaina Francis Henry Pohukaina Keanaaina, Phone: 808-322-7228 Kailua-Kona: Halau Hula Na Pua U`i O Hawai`i Etua

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ʻŌleloflix’s ʻōlelo jam is a lāhui-sourcing event which zoom attendees use to improve their ’ōlelo from a beginner level to fluency.  Netflix and Disney+ movies are captioned into ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and immediately in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi available on Netflix when using a Chrome browser with the ʻŌleloflix chrome extension enabled.  ʻŌlelo Jams are a way for community and language speakers to support each other in gaining fluency while also translating movies and videos to ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and also by adding language features to content natively in ʻōlelo for others to learn from.

https://oleloflix.com

https://olelo.link/jam

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He kono kēia e komo mai kākou i kēlā me kēia pule ma ke kole, kamaʻīlio, walaʻau, a kūkākūkā i nā kumuhana hoihoi like ʻole.  No ka manawa, mālama ʻia nei hanana ma kakahiaka hola 9  o nā Pōʻalima.  He kono nō e lilo i lālā ma ke kalapu ʻo Ola Ka ʻŌlelo.  Inā hoihoi e lilo i waha ʻōlelo, e luʻu iho mai.  A inā ʻo ka makemake he ʻōkuʻu a hoʻolohe i nā mea like ʻole e kūkā ʻia ai, e hana aku nō,.  Hiki ke hoʻoili i ka APP Clubhouse ma kāu iPhone a hoʻomaopopo aku i nā lālā i kou hoihoi e komo.  Na kekahi e kono aku e komo.  ʻO ka ʻāpiki wale nō i kēia manawa, ʻaʻole i mākaukau aʻe ka hiki ke hoʻoili ma nā Android.No laila, he kono nō kēia e komo ma nei hanana kahi e ola ai ko kākou ʻōlelo makuahine.

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Received from Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Lahainaluna.

Reinstatement of Lahainaluna’s historical Annual Event due to its cancellation in April 2020 which would have been Our 51st.

Goals:
1) Showcase Lahainaluna’s place in Hawaiian Epistemology from Orature to Written mode of communication.

2) Historical Overview from the first Western school West of the Rocky Mountain/the Mississippi River to the first Hawaiian Immersion class in 2020.

3. Virtual Accessibility: Alumni (staff and students) near and far will be able to join; open to paeʻāina/honua.

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Each February the State of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi DOE, ʻAha Pūnana Leo, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and multiple organizations, businesses, and community groups throughout the state of Hawaiʻi celebrate ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, an official language of Hawaiʻi.  Therefore, the month of February shall be known and designated as ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Month to celebrate and encourage the use of Hawaiian language.

How might the Kanaeoakana network and collective support efforts to Hoʻokuluma 'ōlelo Hawai'i programming every February?

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Hawaiian language | Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

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This website is a dashboard for events being shared during Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

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The KaHOLO Project: Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Native Hawaiians (KaHOLO)

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The KaHOLO Project: Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Native Hawaiians (KaHOLO)

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This project is a community-engaged, randomized control trial of hula, the indigenous dance form of Native Hawaiians (NH), among 250 NHs with hypertension living in Hawaii and Washington State. Investigators will compare the effects of a 6-month intervention, called the KaHOLO Program, delivered by trained peer educators to a wait-list control condition on blood pressure and 10-year cardiovascular risk. The intervention will be comprised of hula plus hypertension self-care education program. Investigators will also examine the mediating effects of health behaviors, self-regulation, psychosocial, and socio-cultural factors on blood pressure reduction. The ultimate goal is to develop and test a culturally-appropriate, acceptable, and effective intervention that can be delivered and sustained in community settings.

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Shelly Enos, M.P.H., learned the basics of hula, the traditional Hawaiian dance form, when she was a little girl on the island of Oʻahu. She didn't stick with it, but when she joined a class as an adult, the dance felt familiar. "It's kind of like riding a bicycle. Once you move that way, it comes back."

The class was not a standard hula class. All of the students, including Ms. Enos, were Native Hawaiians who had high blood pressure. Many had trouble exercising. The teacher welcomed people at any fitness level. "If you had to stop and rest, it was fine. Nobody made you feel embarrassed about it," says Ms. Enos.

The dancers were participants in a study on using hula to lower blood pressure. It was one of a series of studies showing that hula can help improve heart health for Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, increases your risk of health problems. Although scientists have developed many ways of preventing heart disease, these methods are often developed with White, non-Native people, and the methods do not always work as well in other cultures.

Traditional dance

For people who grow up in Hawai'i, hula is much more than the shows that many tourists see. "Most children growing up in Hawai'i have learned hula sometime, for their school performances or somewhere," says Mele Look, M.B.A., co-investigator and Director of Community Engagement for the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

In hula, each dance has a song, often in the native Hawaiian language. The steps and gestures help illustrate the story of the song, and dancers learn the songs along with the dances. "For me, hula is that connection to culture, to the place I live," Ms. Look says. "When you learn hula, you study poetry and you study perspectives of life. To be able to recite the song or chant over and over again is very enriching for me. And then you always feel better after the physical movement."

One day, more than a decade ago, Ms. Look was in a meeting with several researchers, brainstorming ideas for new studies. She had recently gone through a cultural ritual that included a few years of intensive hula training. "It came to my mind because of its very integrated approach to learning and health: mind, body, spirit." She suggested a study on whether hula helps with heart health. A cardiologist said he had been wanting to do a study related to cardiac rehabilitation, a kind of program to help people recover after heart problems like a heart attack or surgery.

Taking it to the community

In the resulting study, people who had recently had heart surgery attended hula classes for 12 weeks. The researchers found that the exercise was safe and helped people recover from surgery. They also found that it helped participants appreciate and connect to Hawaiian culture and the other people in the class. Strong social ties and a sense of cultural connection helped participants stick with the program, and the classes provided social support, which previous research has established is good for health.

Part of the university's research program involves working with the community to find out what its members believe is important to study. In this case, because the community was most interested in prevention, researchers decided to test hula's ability to reduce high blood pressure. Lowering high blood pressure can reduce the risk of serious health problems such as heart attack, stroke, and aneurysm.

With support from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, a research team led by Joseph Keaweʻaioku Kaholokula, Ph.D., one of Ms. Look's colleagues in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health, conducted a small pilot study. The 45 participants were Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders who were under a physician's care for hypertension and had a systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure measurement) of 140 or more. In addition to a 12-week hula class, participants received education on lowering blood pressure, including avoiding sodium and managing medication.

Three months after the hula class ended, pilot participants' systolic blood pressure had fallen by an average of 18.3 points-twice as much as for the people in a control group and as big an effect as taking medications. Dr. Kaholokula is also examining how taking the hula class made participants feel about their experiences of being discriminated against. He suspects that taking part in such a culturally relevant activity may have strengthened their identity and made them feel more connected to Hawaiʻi and their neighbors.

"Hula is about aloha," Dr. Kaholokula says. In addition to being used as a greeting, aloha can mean "compassion." Dr. Kaholokula has toured Japan with a Hawaiian cultural ambassador group and even competed at the Merrie Monarch Festival, the most prestigious annual hula competition in the world. "In the hula school, the other people with you are called hula brothers and hula sisters. When you're in this group, you extend respect, you extend aloha."

A larger study

Dr. Kaholokula leveraged the results from the pilot study to get funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a large 5-year study. The team worked with community partners on the islands of Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawai'i to set up the classes.

Each group was taught by a hula educator, or kumu hula. The classes started with slow warmups. After some stretching and singing, the students worked on foot patterns to music. Each kumu hula led the study participants in more and more dancing over the 12 weeks. By the end, participants were dancing for 40 minutes, twice a week, well on their way to the recommended 150 minutes of exercise.

Ms. Enos joined the class because she heard of the study as a research coordinator at Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. She liked the class's pace. "It was very slow-paced, but that's okay," she recalls. "We're not there to dance for the Merrie Monarch. We're there to exercise and to get back into the cultural way of doing things."

Although Ms. Enos had to drop out because of scheduling problems, the class inspired her to take further action: She enrolled in a medically supervised weight management program at a local hospital, and her weight and blood pressure are under control now. "Up to that point I thought, 'What's the use? Nothing I do is going to make any difference anyway,'" she says. "Sometimes you just need to know that you can do something, to change your belief, and that's what [the class] helped me do."

The 5-year study finished last year. The researchers are sharing the results with participants and communities before publishing in a scientific journal but say the results look as good as those in the pilot, with significant drops in systolic blood pressure. Some of the groups have continued studying with their kumu hula, and some even perform.

This work could apply to other indigenous groups, Dr. Kaholokula says. For example, Native American tribes with traditional dances might be able to use those dances to promote health. He also hopes to use hula to promote health for people at risk of other diseases, such as dementia.

That all sounds good to Ms. Enos. "I think people love to dance and to move and to have fun, versus getting on a treadmill and staring at the TV for an hour," she says. "It has to be done respectfully-that's the first thing-and this one was."
References

1. Maskarinec, G. G., Look, M., Tolentino, K., Trask-Batti, M., Seto, T., de Silva, M., & Kaholokula, J. K. (2015). Patient perspectives on the Hula Empowering Lifestyle Adaptation Study: Benefits of dancing hula for cardiac rehabilitation. Health Promotion Practice, 16(1), 109-114. doi:

2. Kaholokula, J. K., Look, M., Mabellos, T., Zhang, G., de Silva, M., Yoshimura, S., ... Sinclair, K. A. (2017) Cultural dance program improves hypertension management for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders: A pilot randomized trial. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 4(1), 35-46. doi: 10.1007/s40615-015-0198-4.

Posted September 10, 2019

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Shelly Enos, M.P.H., learned the basics of hula, the traditional Hawaiian dance form, when she was a little girl on the island of Oʻahu. She didn't stick with it, but when she joined a class as an adult, the dance felt familiar. "It's kind of like riding a bicycle.

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ʻO ka Lā Kūkahekahe he hanana ia e hoʻolauleʻa a laulaha ana i ka ʻōlelo o kēia ʻāina. Mālama ʻia he mau hoʻokūkū haʻi ʻōlelo, hōʻikeʻike, a haʻi ʻōlelo pānela o nā ʻano kumuhana like ʻole ma o ka ʻōlelo makuahine o kākou. E nanea mai nō i ke kani honehone o ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.

Lā Kūkahekahe is an event that honors and promotes the native language of Hawaiʻi. Speech competitions, panel discussions, and workshops of various topics are all conducted through the ʻōlelo makuahine. Please enjoy these videos that span the various happenings across this two day event.

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From Hawaiʻi, For The World #lakukahekahe

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Kūʻokoʻa Kūkanono 2020 is a virtual community hoʻolauleʻa in commemoration of Lā Kuʻokoʻa (Hawaiian Independence Day first celebrated on November 28, 1843 after Hawaiʻi was internationally recognized as a sovereign nation).

This event is offered by Kauluakalana, a Hawaiian, community-based, non-profit in Kailua, Oʻahu whose mission is to restore and grow healthy relationships between kanaka and ʻāina (people and place) through the aloha ʻāina practices of retelling our Kailua-specific stories, replanting and eating our ancestral foods, and caring for the sacred sites, lands, and waters of our beloved ahupuaʻa of Kailua. From our piko at Ulupo within the ʻili ʻāina of Kūkanono, we are committed to ʻāina education and restoration for the purposes of cultural revitalization, community regeneration, identity reclamation, and the renewal of kuleana.

KŪʻOKOʻA simultaneously means both to stand/exist independently, differently, separately; and to stand/exist fully, wholly, completely.

KŪKANONO: It is both the name of the ʻili ʻāina where the work of Kauluakalana is grounded (the piko of Kailua and the piko of our event); and one word for abundance.

By naming this community gathering KŪʻOKOʻA KŪKANONO we embrace ALL meanings of both words and simultaneously keep Kailua as the piko of the event but extending out to include the whole pae ʻāina for this year’s event to be held virtually.

Kūʻokoʻa Kūkanono has been offered every year since 2018 as a large, free community hoʻolaulea. Its components of moʻolelo, hula, mele, and food all focus on feeding event attendees and participants in various ways: nutritionally, culturally, intellectually, and spiritually. The food we eat. The ʻāina we care for. The practices we perpetuate. The stories we live. The people we love. These are the things that help us to KŪʻOKOʻA - stand together fully as a community with aloha for our people, land, & culture.

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Kauluakalana Presents: Kū’oko’a Kūkanono ft. Mo'olelo by Maya Saffery