Prominent leaders of the Hawaiian community are leading an important initiative to declare 2018 as the Year of the Hawaiian. Read More
Hawaiian Nation Building
The State of History
This month’s columnist is my nephew, ʻUmi Perkins, PhD, who teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi. “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon On August 6th, 1843, the newspaper Ka Nonanona reported on Read More
A Native Hawaiian Constitution Is Born
The aha delegates have done their work. Now it’s our turn. Read More
State of the Hawaiian Nation in Waiting
We have come so far and yet have so far to go. We have made joyful progress toward recapturing the customs and traditions of our cultural past and yet struggle to agree on a common vision of our cultural future. Read More
What Does it Mean to Be Hawaiian?
All politics aside, indigenous identity seems more malleable than many people suggest. Read More
Thoughtful Questions about Nation-Building and the ‘Aha
A letter from an OHA beneficiary who is able to navigate the confusion and emerge anger-free with a thoughtful defining of the challenges. Read More
Hard Questions about Hawai‘i’s Future
Let’s ramp down from the lofty rhetoric and get to the real how-does-this-work questions. My intention here is as a facilitator of the questions that need to be asked. Read More
The Hawaiian Nation: If Not Now, When? If Not Us, Who?
On March 6, 2014, the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs voted to adopt a plan that in its final phase will see OHA dissolved. Read More
To Raise a Beloved Nation
I find myself in deep reflection over OHA’s stated mission, “To Raise a Beloved Nation.” What a profound thought with plenty of room for dreaming of what could be. Read More
Restoring a nation–the four-legged stool
As an OHA trustee, I find myself having to focus on logical steps in the rebuilding of a nation. In my own mind I’ve constructed a four-legged stool as my model. Read More
Sovereignty Song
Lyrics and music to the Sovereignty Song by Peter Apo & Jeff Rasmussen © 1985 Read More
