Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, Ph. D.
2007
It is with great humility and pride that I take pen in hand to submit the newest issue of Hulili to you. Even in this day and age of sophisticated technology and rapid pace, one of the most amazing and inspiring things about being human is the power of the spirit and the depth of connections that it brings, binding us to each other, to animate and inanimate life forms, to the past of our ancestors, and yet so vigorously to the future. From these connections come our values, and this fourth volume of Hulili speaks strongly about Hawaiian values. The writings carry clear messages about kuleana (responsibility), imi naauao (seeking knowledge), and the importance of olelo (language) and ohana (family). Our contributors voice the tremendous kuleana to revitalize the knowledge of our ancestors, using it to create a vision for our future as conveyed in the powerful moolelo (story) about the rebirth of voyaging in Hawaii, about the undeniable responsibility to care for our kupuna (elders), our iwi (bones), our wahi pana (sacred places), and about building the strength of our communities through the power of culture-based education. Through the pedagogy of aloha and combined ancient and modern knowledge systems, we unleash the critical contributions that our opio (youth) will in turn offer their communities and our world. The writings share the value of imi naauao in the importance of theorizing and the enduring nature of some key tenets of indigenous theory: it is holistic, it is about place, experience, and time/genealogy. Imi naauao is about respecting the knowledge and research that informs innovation and future research. The KEEP research summary shares a legacy of work to identify successful, culturally congruent methods for teaching literacy to Native Hawaiian children. And, provoc- atively embedded in native values of imi naauao is the need to “tap into data that penetrate below the surface of rigor as defined by Western epistemology. ” That we value ohana shines thr
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