Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 34, Number 8, 1 August 2017 — MO‘OMEHEU CULTURE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MO‘OMEHEU CULTURE

To strengthen identity, Native Hawaiians will preserve, practice and perpetuate their culture. ▲ STRATEGIC RESULTS 85% of Hawai'i residents will appreciate and value Native Hawaiian history and Gulture 51% of Native Hawaiians living in the State of Hawai'i will participate in oultural activities, inoluding language, and who interaot with the 'āina for oultural, spiritual, religious and subsistenoe purposes.

AWAIAULU $353,600 Translation Training Project: Phase III offers intensive two-year training for fluent Hawaiian speakers who wish to be translators, trainers and mentors. In this phase, one team of trainees will continue translating Samuel M. Kamakau's history series, whieh was originally published in Hawaiian language newspapers from 1865-70. Awaiaulu's work will present his original material in both 'ōlelo Hawai'i and English. A second team will_translate Hawaiian historian John Papa 'Ī'ī's "Na Hunahuna o ka Moolelo Hawaii." Trainees from Phase II will become trainers in this phase as translators who trained them become mentors-in-training. KŌKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES $189,720 Birthing a Nation seeks to increase and perpetuate traditional knowledge and eultural practices around childbirth. Over the next two years, 176 Native Hawaiian wāhine hāpai and their kāne, cultural practitioners and health professionals will leam cultural birthing practices, empowering families to give their child a strong foundation in life while strengthening the lāhui. Elements of the program include research and training for cultural practitioners, as well as eight-week programs for expectant parents that draw on ancestral knowledge and emphasize the importance of lomilomi, lā'au, ho'oponopono, 'ai pono, 'iewekanu (planting of 'iewe) and other practices during pregnancy and childbirth. PAC F0UNDATI0N $73,810 The Kūkā'ilimoku: Perpetuation and Preservation of Hawaiian Basketry project's goal is increasing the number of cultural practitioners in the area of 'ie'ie (Freycinetia arborea) basketry in targeted Hawaiian communities by providing eul-ture-based experiences through lectures, resource gathering and workshops to connect with their heritage, strengthening their identities as Native Hawaiians. Over the next two years, Lloyd Harold Sing Jr. and May Haunani Balino-Sing will teach 20 Native Hawaiian apprentices on Maui and Hawai'i Island how to weave various hīna'i (baskets and traps) and weave a Kūka'ilimoku image. Participants will have opportunities to promote 'ie'ie basketry through demonstrations, lectures and showcases.

HUI MĀLAMA 0 KE KAI F0UNDATI0N $133,638 Two workshop series will allow Native Hawaiian youth and their family members to learn traditional protocol and techniques from respected kūpuna and kumu. The 10-12 week long Papahana Kālai Papa Me Pōhaku Ku'i 'Ai workshop series will teach 100 participants to carve their own papa ku'i 'ai and pōhaku ku'i 'ai to pound their own kalo. The eight month Papahana Kālai Wa'a will teach eanoe building to 90 participants. Seven older youth and young adults will be selected by their kumu to receive specific training as apprentice cultural practitioners, in hope that they'll one day become kumu themselves. KUPA FRIENDS 0F HO'OKENA BEACH PARK $97,741 Part of a longer-term goal to restore the abundance and sustainability of the South Kona fishery and revive and sustain traditional Hawaiian practices of sustainable fishing, KUPA's project, RevitalizingTraelilional Hawaiian Fishing Practices in Ho'okena, South Kona, Hawai'i, aims at preserving and perpetuating the customary Hawaiian cultural practices of traditional 'ōpelu (mackerel scad) fishing as handed down to the fishermen of Ho'okena and the greater South Kona region by reintroducing seasonal closures to allow time for regeneration of fish stocks and increased fish catch to train a new generation of 'ōpelu fishers. PA'I F0UNDATI0N $178,532 Many Native Hawaiians can't afford to pay tuition for hula classes and kumu hula and hālau hula face challenges finding dedicated spaces to teach, learn and create new works of art. Huia: Nāki'i A Pa'a addresses both of those issues by underwriting the cost of training advanced students of hula as teachers and increasing the number of dance studios dedicated to hula to offer more opportunities for Hawaiians to participate. PA'I is also partnering with Artspace to build a new arts centerin Kaka'ako that will have space for two dance studios and an art gallery.

2667 'Anu'u Plaee Honolulu, Hl 96819 (808) 845-8918 kaui@awaiaulu.org

2239 North School Street Honolulu, Hl 96819 (808) 791-9400 dderauf@kkv.net

819 Factory Street Honolulu, Hl 96819 (808) 291-5038 pacfoundation.org@gmail.com

41-477 Hihimanu Street Waimānalo, Hl 96795 (808) 258-6717 kathymorris@huimalamaokekai.org

P.0. Box 505 Hōnaunau, Hl 96726 (808) 987-9052 kupahookena@hawaiiantel.net

P.O. Box 17483 Honolulu, Hl 96817 (808) 844-2001 info@pa ifoundation.org

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Photo: Puakea Nogelirieier with a tran$lator in training, making Hawaiian language dooument$ more aooe$$ible.

Photo: Wāhine hāpai and their kāne ean leam oultural birthing practice$.

Photo: Lloyd Kumulā'au Sing & Haunani Balino-Sing at NāHulu Manu - Bi$hop Museum $pon$ored event May 2016

Photo: (R-L); Hikki Barro$, iaek Oanape, l$aiah Abejon, and Koyo Kekauoha. During one of the Wa 'a Wedne$day$ for Hui Mālama 0 Ke Kai, teaoher$ watch on a$ $tudent$ u$e pono practioe$ while $howoa$ing the $kill$ that they have ju$t learned on how to begin shaping a wa'a.

Photo: Dougla$ Alani demonstrating opelu net fi$hing for a gathering that KUPA $pon$ored in 2014 along with Pa'a Pono ofMilolii and Na Pea $ailing academy.

Photo: Oiooi Dalire, Kawika Lum, Ka'iulani īakamon and Kaleo Manuei making pahu hula.