On October 6, 2018, we offered a huakaʻi at the Pīkoʻokoʻo Conference with the tremendous kōkua of UH-Mānoa Native Hawaiian Student Services staff. The purpose of the huakaʻi was to share the "untold" history of Mānoa and to share visions of how to make changes to transform UH-Mānoa into a more Hawaiian place of learning by better acknowledging and appreciating the Hawaiian geography, history, people, and language of the ʻāina. We offered both English and Hawaiian language tours and allowed conference participants to choose their language preference. See below for the map and description of the stops. In the future, we hope to integrate this huakaʻi into the existing UH-Mānoa campus tour narratives for prospective and new students, and for new faculty as well.
All huakaʻi participants were given a sheet that included the map with "starred" destinations (seen above) as well as a brief description of the information that will be shared at each stop. Below is the brief information they were provided:
- Beginning of Legacy Path: Introduction to the ʻili ʻāina of Paʻakea and the history of Lower Campus (the quarry)
- Andrews Outdoor Theatre: Historic WWII Events and plays that took place here, including a Hawaiian-subject play
- Two Ahu at Bachman: First ahu in Bachman courtyard to protest GMO kalo, second ahu in Bachman lawn to protest TMT on Maunakea
- Bachman Lawn: Initially named Wise Field after John Henry Wise, also the site of some of the first bilingual signage at Founder’s Gate.
- Legacy Path Native Plants: There are two native Hawaiian plants along this path.What are their moʻolelo and uses?
- Kuykendall Hall: Site of intersection for three ʻili ʻāina; history of Pidgin at UH Mānoa
- Art Building Plants: More Hawaiian plants as well as foreign plants brought to UH by Professor Joseph Rock
- QLCSS: Ke Ahu ʻo Kamakaʻeha and Queen Liliʻuokalani’s contribution to a university in Hawaiʻi
- Hawaiʻi Hall: First building on UHM campus, 1907 eviction of kānaka maoli for construction of campus
- Saunders Hall: Protests against Saunders Hall former name
- George Hall: WWII underground bomb shelters located right outside George Hall in the Old Quadrangle
- Webster Hall Native Plants: Kukui and the symbolic significance of lau kukui on a college campus, especially during graduation season
- Keller Hall: Intersection of four ‘ili ‘āina and proposal for wayfinding signs with ʻili ʻāina names
- Hamilton Library: The contributions of William Kwai Fong Yap
- Paradise Palms: Enter into a new ʻili ʻāina with history of ownership traceable back to Boki, the Governor of Oʻahu in the 1840s
- Moore Hall: Site of many language departments on campus, history of WWI and xenophobia about the German language
- Kānewai: “Healing waters of Kāne” and aliʻi interest in this area
- Kamakakūokalani: Built in 2006 it is the site of Hawaiian Studies on campus, site of Hawaiian activism such as protesting the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea in 2015
Nā Hua ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Words)
- Ahu: Altar, shrine, cairn, etc.
- Hala: The pandanus or screw pine, female trees have fruit
- Hāloa: The son of Wākea, first Hawaiian
- Huakaʻi: Trip, journey, mission; to travel
- Kahawai: Fresh water stream, creek, or river
- Kānewai: Lit. “Waters [of] Kāne” (Sites of Oʻahu)
- Kī: A woody plant, put to many uses by Hawaiians
- Kūkāʻilimoku: Kamehameha’s war image, god of war
- Kukui: Candlenut tree, symbol of enlightenment
- Kuleana: Right, privilege, responsibility, ownership, etc.
- Malihini: Stranger, foreigner, newcomer, tourist, guest, etc.
- Paʻakea: Lit. Coral bed or limestone (Sites of Oʻahu)
- Pilipili: Any sticky matter, adhesive; pasty, gluey. Also abundance of pili grass (Sites of Oʻahu).
- Puahia: Spry, quick
- Ulana: To plait, weave, knit, braid; plaiting, weaving
- Wailele: Waterfall, Lit., leaping water
Sources:
Hawaiian Dictionary (Pukui/Elbert dictionary) Copyright © 2003 by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Place Names of Hawaiʻi (Pukui/Elbert/Mookini) Copyright © 1974, 2004 by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
- Ahu: Altar, shrine, cairn, etc.
- Hala: The pandanus or screw pine, female trees have fruit
- Hāloa: The son of Wākea, first Hawaiian
- Huakaʻi: Trip, journey, mission; to travel
- Kahawai: Fresh water stream, creek, or river
- Kānewai: Lit. “Waters [of] Kāne” (Sites of Oʻahu)
- Kī: A woody plant, put to many uses by Hawaiians
- Kūkāʻilimoku: Kamehameha’s war image, god of war
- Kukui: Candlenut tree, symbol of enlightenment
- Kuleana: Right, privilege, responsibility, ownership, etc.
- Malihini: Stranger, foreigner, newcomer, tourist, guest, etc.
- Paʻakea: Lit. Coral bed or limestone (Sites of Oʻahu)
- Pilipili: Any sticky matter, adhesive; pasty, gluey. Also abundance of pili grass (Sites of Oʻahu).
- Puahia: Spry, quick
- Ulana: To plait, weave, knit, braid; plaiting, weaving
- Wailele: Waterfall, Lit., leaping water
Sources:
Hawaiian Dictionary (Pukui/Elbert dictionary) Copyright © 2003 by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Place Names of Hawaiʻi (Pukui/Elbert/Mookini) Copyright © 1974, 2004 by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
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