Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 12, Number 7, 1 July 1995 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

'Aha 'Opio, OHA's annual youth leadership program, drew 55 Hawaiian high school students to Honolulu June 18 - 23 to participate in a moek legislature. Many of the | bills drafted by the junior legislators this year were concerned with requiring public school students to be educated in Hawaiian history, eulture and language. Hard at work becoming Hawaiian leaders are, clockwise from top: Arthur Keo Hirayama (Hilo High); Hidi Nae'ole (1994 'Aha 'Opio governor), Jonathan Chun (1994 Sergeant-at-Arms) and Keola Jarret (from Malibu, California); Sunny Higa (Kamehameha Schools); and Brandi Pimental (Kīhei) Noelani Puniwai (Kurtistown), and Davina Sing (Hilo).

Photos by Jeff Clark