Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 3, 1 March 2014 — Land, and its Kānaka connections, as muse [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Land, and its Kānaka connections, as muse

II 1 A I e Kanaka are inseparable from the 'āina," writes Uni- \ /\ / versityofHawai'iHawaiianstudiesprofessor Jonathan \ / \ / Osorio in the editor's note of the new book I UIu I \/ \/ Ka 'Āina: Lanā,

V V the latest in a series released by UH's Hawai'inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. The theme of land - as inspiration, nourishment and deserving of protection, llows through the second volume with writings by Carlos Andrade, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Neil J. Hannahs, Lia O'Neill Keawe, Leon No'eau Peralto, Wendell Kekailoa Perry and Kaiwipuni Lipe, who contributes an interview with her mom, Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa. The book contains mostly essays on topics ranging from indigenizing land management at Kamehameha Schools to a homeless man's actions in the face of western laws in the intriguingly titled "Save the Hawaiian, Eat the Pig." However, the slim 114-page volume begins and ends with poetrv. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio,

a three-time national poetry ehampion, Stanford University graduate and daughter of Jonathan Osorio, provides the opening poem, and Dana Nāone Hall, a decadeslong advocate for protecting iwi kūpuna and ancestral burial sites disturbed by urbanization, wrote the closing poem. Both are printed here. I UIu I Ka Āina: Land is available for $16 at Native Books/Nā Mea Hawai'i, select retailers and through University of Hawai'i Press, (808) 956-8255, uhpbooks@hawaii.edu and online at uhpress. hawaii.edu. — LisaAsato

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I Jamaica Osorio I in 2013 wilh her father, Jonathan ! Osorio, ed[tor of / ' Ulu I Ka Aina : Lani I - Photo: Kai Markell