Abstract
Aloha mai kākou, we take a local perspective today with special guests, Brandon from Kamehameha Schools and Lisa from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, who walk us through a new radical study aiming to change the traditionally deficits-based narrative about the Native Hawaiian people to one of strength and resiliency. Drawing from the Kūkulu Kumuhana dimensions of Native Hawaiian wellbeing, we discuss the ʻImi Pono Hawaiʻi Wellbeing Survey 2021, from which a number of local organizations have analyzed and published numerous briefs, including ones on COVID-19 impacts in Hawaiʻi and more. Be sure to check out our website for great links that support indigenous research as well as a vocabulary list of all the Hawaiian words used in the episode!
Keywords
Native Hawaiian Wellbeing, Kūkulu Kumuhana, Indigenous Frameworks, Culture, Data
Sources
- Kamehameha Schools (KS)
- The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)
- Lilʻiuokalani Trust (LT)
- ʻImi Pono Hawaiʻi Wellbeing Survey 2021
- Kūkulu Kumuhana: Creating Radical and New Knowledge to Improve Native Hawaiian Wellbeing
- ‘Extremely Alarming’ Test Scores Show Challenges Ahead For Hawaii Schools
- Poverty Persists Among Hawaiians Despite Low Unemployment
- Deficit-Based Indigenous Health Research and the Stereotyping of Indigenous Peoples
- Health Disparities in the Native Hawaiian Homeless
- Colonial History of Anthropology: Who gets to study whom?
- Black teens score high in self-esteem
- Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
- No Mākou Ka Mana: Liberating the Nation by Kamanamaikalani Beamer
- Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
- What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?
- Mana Lāhui Kānaka by Kamanaʻopono Crabbe
- Haumea: Transforming the Health of Native Hawaiian Women and Empowering Wāhine Well-Being by OHA
- Kānehō‘ālani: Transforming the Health of Native Hawaiian Men by OHA
- Ka Huaka‘i 2021: Native Hawaiian Educational Assessment by KS
- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donates $2.5M to fight homelessness in Hawaii
Hawaiian words in the episode (in order of use):
- Aloha mai kākou – greetings to all of you
- Mahalo – thank you; gratitude
- E kala mai – forgive me; sorry; apologies
- Moʻokūʻauhau – ancestry; genealogy
- ʻImi pono – to seek out fullness/completeness/balance
- ʻOhana – family
- Kaiaulu – community
- Honua – world, environment
- Ea – self-determination
- ʻŌiwi – cultural identity and native intelligence
- ʻĀina Momona – healthy and productive lands and people
- Pilina – mutually sustaining relationships
- Waiwai – ancestral abundance and collective wealth
- Kupuna – elders
- Ke Akua Mana – spirituality
- Mōʻi – King; chief; ruler
- He Ali’i Ka ‘Āina; He Kauwā ke Kanaka – The Land is Chief; Man is its Servant
- Kai – ocean; salt water
- Wai – fresh water
- Kūkulu – to build; pile up; a pillar
- Kumu – the source (e.g., teacher); basis; main stalk or root of plant
- Haumāna – students
- Hana – the work; activity
- Kūkulu Kumuhana – “the pooling of strengths, emotional, psychological, and spiritual for a shared purpose. A unified, unifying purpose.” (Source).
- Naʻau – intuition; feelings; gut instinct
- Kākoʻo – agree; support
- Moʻolelo – story; tale; myth
- Mana – divine power, among other things. (Read the book!).
- Hoʻoponopono – to correct; the name of a traditional healing process (conflict resolution) to resolve issues within ʻohana
- Heluhelu i ka puke – read a book!