Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 8, 1 August 1999 — Haku Mele Award -- [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Haku Mele Award --

ĪHE OHA-spon-sored Nā Hōkū Hanohano Haku Mele Award | acknowledges excellenee in Hawaiian poetic composition, and is judged by a panel of Hawaiian language experts appointed by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts. A mele oli hv Nālani

Kanaka'ole, from Hālau o Kekuhi's CD release "Uwōlani," won this year's Hōkū, presented in May. Here is her eomposition honoring her matrilineal ancestors through her mother, Edith Kekuhikuhipu'uoneonāali'iokohala Kanaele Kenao Kanaka'ole, and grandmother, Mary Keli'i Kekuewa Ahiena Kanaele Fujii. ■