Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu University: He kīhoʻihoʻi kānāwai no ka naʻauao Hawaiʻi
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This poem speaks to the salt and the waters, the growth and the growing, the ebb and the flowing, and the endless aloha I have for myself and my lāhui who has transformed me. I come from the very Hawaiians who suffered at the disallowance of Hawaiian education. I had to actively choose to break that cycle in our immediate family and join our extended one in this reimagined present and future. Through education, I learned the importance of activism. So, in July of 2019, I joined a few dozen educators on the slopes of Mauna Kea, at a section of ʻāina between our sacred mountain and Puʻuhuluhulu to stand in protection of our beloved lands. Soon, thousands of others joined us in the movement of protection with the goal of stopping the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). These thousands of people had so much to teach and were so motivated to learn. This endeavor came to be known as Puʻuhuluhulu University, which served as “an actual place of Hawaiian learning” and an example of ancient wisdom in our contemporary lives. For this is education which liberates our people. Let it continue.
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Laimana, J. K. (2011). The phenomenal rise to literacy in Hawaiʻi : Hawaiian society in the early nineteenth century. [Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.