Academic Publications
Current Projects In-process
“He Moʻolelo mai nā Kūpuna: Ancestral Lessons of Liberation in J. W. H. I. Kihe’s “Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka-Miki.” Edited by Ākea Kahikina and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. In Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being. Honolulu, Kamehameha Publishing.
“Kīpuka: Towards a Representative Model of Hawaiian Philosophy” in “Response to Michael Kaulana Ing’s “An Outline of Hawaiʻi Philosophy.” Edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach. In Journal of World Philosophies. Honolulu, Indiana University Press.
“Moʻokūʻauhau as Philosophy.” Edited by Michael Kaulana Ing. In Approaches to Hawaiʻi Philosophy. University of Hawaiʻi Press.
“Kānaka Maoli Intellectual Sovereignty and the ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Newspapers.” Edited by Jill Doerfler, Ananya Mishra, and David Stirrup. In Indigenous Literary Studies. Bloomsbury Academic.
Published
“He Moʻolelo Ola: Aukahi Hoʻōla ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.” Edited by C. M. Kaliko Baker and Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker. In Moʻolelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge. Honolulu :University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023.
“ʻIkuā ka Leo o ka Hekili: He Noiʻina i nā Mele Malama o ke “Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka-Miki” (The Sound of Thunder Reverberates: An Analysis of Ethnoecological Chants of “Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka-Miki”), MA thesis, Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Hilo, 2022.
Community Publications
Hawaiian Language Children's Literature
Co-authored with Hawaiian language curriculum specialist Māhealani Kobashigawa, Kāʻeo: He Puke Kuanaʻike no ke Kino explores Kanaka Maoli perspectives of the body through ʻōlelo noʻeau (Hawaiian proverbial sayings). The book is for sale through Hale Kuamoʻo.
Holo mai ʻo Pele mai Kahiki is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's trek from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi, with a focus on the volcanoes she created along the way.
ʻOni ʻia a Paʻa: No Pōhakuolēkia a me Pōhakuohanalei is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pōhakuolēkia and Pōhakuohanalei, famed and powerful rocks Pele brought on her trek from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi.
Kīlauea ʻĀina Aloha: No ke Kūlanakauhale Hoʻāno o Pele is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's home in Kīlauea on the island of Hawaiʻi. Special attention is paid to the different places of Kīlauea that comprise Pele's home.
ʻO Pele Ka Wahine ʻAi Lehua: He Puke ʻIke Kahua Pilikanaka is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's laws or edicts, concerning behavior and human with volcanic eruptions.
ʻO ke Kahua ma Mua, ma Hope ke Kūkulu: No ka ʻOihana Wilikī Kīwila is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on civil engineering with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
He Hale Ke Kino no ka Manaʻo: No ka ʻOihana Hoʻopuka Lole is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on fashion with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
Kaʻupu Hālō Moana: No ka ʻOihana Pena Kīkina is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on civil engineering with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
He Welo Noelo ko ka Hawaiʻi: He Puke ʻIke Kahua ʻOihana Pilihonua is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on innovation with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
Abstract
Moʻolelo—both the product and act of transmitting stories and narratives—is a thread that connects Moananuiākea. By centering moʻolelo and moʻokūʻauhau or genealogy, we are reminded of the seeds of potential our ancestors have left for us for our liberation into the future.