Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 38, Number 8, 1 August 2021 — Ka Lei Lanakila a ka Lāhui [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ka Lei Lanakila a ka Lāhui

It is my privilege to invite UH Maui professors Kahele Dukelow and Kaleikoa Ka'eo to share mana'o about their beautiful kumu, whom they revere and treasure, in my eolumn this month. A Tribute and Kanikau for Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask Ourgreatteacher has passed on. It is difficult

to express what Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask means to our Lāhui Kānaka, especially to the hundreds of Hawaiian, Indigenous, and fellow aloha aina who were blessed to have learned with this powerful teacher. Her brilliance enlightened and empowered many people, not just here in Hawai'i, but across the Paeihe and beyond. Dr. Trask provided us with a top-notch educational experience; how to study, analyze, and cite our true political history. She showed us how to speak up with conviction, passion and facts. It was not just what she taught us, but how she taught us that was important. Her piercing words, bravado and confidence fueled our minds and souls. We watched, listened, read, thought, engaged and ultimately learned that it was so mueh more powerful to stand and fight for what you believed in than to remain silent, even if the odds were against you. She nurtured within us truly revolutionary ideas of freedom and independence and reminded us often that those things would never be given to us. We had to demand it and fight for it. It is not a coincidence that many of today's community leaders and kia'i have a direct or indirect Hawaiian political genealogy to Dr. Trask. In fact, many of us celebrate and honor her resistance by continuing on her good work. We remember her bravery, resilience and the way she was

ible to articulate an irgument with paslion, conviction and ntellect. I ola nā lālā ke kumu kū'oko'a! He kanikau kēia nou e Haunani-Kay Trask... He aloha nui, e ka heke mana wahine Ua hala 'ē aku 'oe, i ke ala ho'i 'ole mai A ho'ipaha i ke ala hele

polikua a Papa 'O Papa huli honua, 'o Papa huli lani 'O Papa nui hānau moku Nalo akula i ke ehu kakahiaka Hōkū 'ōlino loa o ke ao kanaka Ka lei lanakila a ka lāhui A Hawai'i loa a e hi'ipoi nei A noho a'ela i ke kapu o nā lani, 'Olapa ka uila, ku'i hekili Hō'ailona kapu o nā ali'i Anuanu mai nei ke aloha Kolokolonahe ana i ka houpo, Aloha e Noenoe Uakea o Hāna Kulāiwi hanohano o nā kūpuna He mo'opuna ha'aheo na Pi'ilani Ua lani ha'aha'a o Mauiakama He kamalei no ke anu o Nā Ko'olau I kōko'olua a ka ua Kua'o'e Koa ho'oheno o ka makani Ulumano Ka manomano o ke aloha 'āina Aloha ka Ua Kuahine o Mānoa Ia wahi pipi'o a ke ānuenue i laila 'oe lā e ho'ona'uao aku ai Hāli'i ana e Kahaukani Lilo i makuahine 'imi na'auao A alaka'i maika'i ma kahi kula uli ē I kumu no ka ua loku me ka lā mehana No ke anu a me ko'eko'e lā Hānai 'ia a maona i ka 'ike kālai'āina Ke ha'alo'u nei, a hū a'ela ka uē Hāinu ihola i ka wai ola a ma'ema'e Ke kahe nei a helele'i ihola Ka waimaka aloha e kulukulu nei He Kanikau lā he aloha ē E ke Kumu nui ē, e ke Kumu nui ē E keKumu 'ao o mākou nā Hawai'i Pau pū me nā haumāna puni ke ao nei Epaio mau me nā leo mana piha A hiki i ke aloha 'āina hope loa Ua minamina lā e minamina Paumako lā e paumako ho'i Lele ke Kumu nui lā, lele ke Kumu nui ē. ■

Carmen 1 "Hulu" 1 Lindsey Chair, r' Trustee, Maui