Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 1, 1 Ianuali 2010 — Kau Inoa goes global [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kau Inoa goes global

By Capsun M. Poe, Policy Advocate n 2009, 5,877 Native Hawaiians signed up for the Kau Inoa Registration at 60 events here in Hawai'i nei and on the U.S. continent, bringing the total registration count to 108,118 as of the end of November. Over the past . few months we have included photos in this eolumn of several Kau Inoa , J ' lllHu

Registration events. But over the years, the Kau Inoa Registration has also reached out to register Hawaiians residing beyond the shores of the United States. The photos included here are of Hawaiians registered in Kau Inoa who live across the world: (1) Gustave Kahipa Sproat Jr. living in Saverne, France, (2) Irmina Farm Sand and her family in Oslo, Norway, and (3) Billy 01ds when he worked in the Middle East. During 2009, OHA stepped up its social media outreach. We have more

fully developed our microblogging service (twitter.com/kauinoa) and initiated our Kau Inoa Newsblog (kauinoa.org/blog) in efforts to disseminate more accurate and timely information regarding critical issues of the governance arena. Both services are interactive allowing OHA to know "what's on your mind" and to answer your questions. ■

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At right, lrmina (Farm) Sand of Oslo, Norway, and her family at Vigeland Park. Sand's parents, Edwin and Mikahala (Richards) Farm, are from kama'ōina families in Hawai'i. - Courtesv photos

Gustave Sproat Jr. fronting the Rohan chateau in Saverne, France, his longtime home. Sproat's family is from Kohala, specifically Makanikahio, on the edge of Pololū Valley. "I don't know if l'll see ko'u 'ōina hānau alohaia again, but my heart will always be there," he says. "To you all I say, "Imua, e ka po'e Hawai'i, onipa'a i ka pono."

Billy Olds, shown here in the Middle East, is a member of the well-known Olds family in Hawai'i. He and his family have lived in Nevada for years.