Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 39, Number 3, 1 March 2022 — Nā 'Ohina Wikiō Mānaleo Mua o Kani'āina Two new video collections feature Native Hawaiian mānaleo [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Nā 'Ohina Wikiō Mānaleo Mua o Kani'āina Two new video collections feature Native Hawaiian mānaleo

Kākau 'ia na Larry Kimura lāua 'o Bruce Torres Fischer Ci no'ai me ke aloha e nā hoa /% makamaka 'ōlelo Hawai'i mai / — % Hawai'i Nui Kuauli a hiki i Ni'iX _m.hau o Kahelelani. Me ka 'oli'oli mākou e kūkala aku nei i ka ho'okau 'ia o 'elua 'ohina wikiō, 'o Nā Hulu Kūpuna a me Mānaleo Kīwī ma ke kaha pūnaewele 'o Kani'āina ma www.ulukau.org/kaniaina, me ke kāko'o pū o ko Kamakakūokalani no Nā Hulu Kūpuna, a me ke kāko'o o Kalani Akana a me 'Ulu'ulu no Mānaleo Kīwī. He leo paipai ho'i kēia iā 'oukou, e nā lehua ho'ōla 'ōlelo, e 'apo i ke a'o waiwai a ia mau hulu kūpuna i waiho mai ai i mua pono o kākou a e ho'ohana i 'oi a'e ko kākou na'auao a mauli ola Hawai'i. Ke komo nei kākou i kekahi au hou o ke ola 0 ka 'ōlelo me ka mauli Hawai'i - i kēlā me kēia makahaki nui a'e ka heluna o ka po'e i hiki ke kama'ilio ma ka 'ōlelo makuahine - a mahalo ho'i i ka 'ōnaehana ho'ona'auao a kākou mai ka P-12 a i ka Ph.d. Ma kekahi 'ao'ao na'e, ua hala nō ka hapanui o nā kūpuna mānaleo, a ke o'o nei nō ka po'e i launa me ia mau mānaleo a i lohe pepeiao a 'ike maka i ko ia mau kūpuna mauli Hawai'i. Ke ulu mai nei kekahi hanauna hou i 'ike a launa 'ole _ _ _ <_ me ka po'e kupuna a me ka lakou A i ke aha? He kumuwaiwai launa 'ole nā _ _ _ leo a me na wikio kupuna i piha i ka 'ike no nā loina Hawai'i o kēlā 'ano kēia 'ano, 1 ka 'ike 'ōlelo, i ka 'ike mo'okū'auhau, i ka 'ike Hawai'i nō ho'i. E ho'i kākou i ke kumu a ho'oia i ke 'ano Hawai'i o ka kakou mau hana ho'ōla 'ōlelo e pa'upa'u nei. Ua pōmaika'i nui ka 'ōlelo Hawai'i, 'oiai ho'i, nui loa nā kumuwaiwai i ho'olako _ _ 'ia mai na kupuna mai, ke ho'ohalikelike 'ia me ka hapanui o nā 'ōlelo 'ane halapohe 'ē a'e o ke ao. Eia he makana makamae ke ho'omalele _ 'ia nei, he 'elua 'ohina wikio waiwai lua 'ole o nā kūpuna mānaleo Hawai'i i ke kaomi wale iho o ko kākou manamana lima i ka papa pihi a hui me nā hulu kūpuna mānaleo Hawai'i. No kekahi o kākou he pili 'ohana nō kēia ilina ki'i a leo o kekahi hulu kupuna makamae e pūlama a e ha'aheo mau ai. E 'apo a e ho'ohana i nā makana 'ōlelo, 'ike ku'una, lawena a 'uhane Hawai'i a e 'oi ke ola o ko kākou mauli Hawai'i. ■

Written by Larry Kimura and Bruce Torres Fischer Aloha e nā makamaka mai Hawai'i Nui Kuauli a i Ni'ihau o Kahelelani. We are excited to announee that two new video collections featuring Native Hawaiian mānaleo, Nā Hulu Kūpuna and Manaleo TV, will be available on Kani aina beginning this month. Nā Hulu Kūpuna The Kani'āina Spoken Hawaiian Language Repository at Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at UH Hilo is partnering with Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at UH Mānoa to bring Nā Hulu Kūpuna - The Esteemed Kūpuna - to the community via the Kani'āina website. This collection is a set of oral history video interviews with 19 kūpuna from Hawai'i to Ni'ihau who are native speakers of Hawaiian and encompasses topics from saddle making and steel guitars, to lau hala weaving. Filming of the Na Hulu Kupuna collection was done by Nā Maka o ka 'Āina and Hawai'i Puhlie Television crews. In 2009 2010, with support from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamakakūokalani and Nā Maka o ka 'Āina digitized these precious interviews before the original tapes heeame degraded and lost forever. (See sidebar on page 11 for a listing of these hulu kūpuna). These kūpuna were interviewed by a handful of Hawaiian-speaking 'ōpio from 1990 1991 under the leadership of Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa and Makalapua Alencastre, and supported by the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Those 'ōpio were Evaline Tuti Kanahele Sanborn, Laiana Wong, Kū Kahakalau, Robi Kahakalau, Jonah Hau'oli Akaka, and Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa. Mānaleo TV The Mānaleo TV collection by producer Kalani Akana with the assistance of 'Ulu'ulu: The Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai'i is now being added to Kani'āina. This collection consists of 98 hour-long programs featuring many kūpuna mānaleo and a wide and rich diversity of topics. (See sidebar for a listing of kūpuna who were guests on this program). Originally, Mānaleo was a puhlie Hawaiian language eahle television program that aired from 1996 to 2007 with interviews of many SEE KANI'ĀINA ON PAGE 11

Expert quilter Margaret 'Aipōlani discusses the finer points of quilting with Tuti Sonborn Kanahele in this video interview. Crews from Hawai'i Public Television ond Nō Maka 0 ko 'Āino filmed the interviews thot comprise the Nō Hulu Kūpuno video collection. - Photos:

Lilikolō Kame'eleihiwa interviews moster steel guitor ployer Hanolei Ka'imi'ōina Ko'alekohi. Nō Hulu Kūpuna is 0 collection of orol history video interviews with 19 mōnaleo that were conducted from 1990-1991.

Mōnaleo TV Producer Kalani Akana interviews Elizabeth Nōlani Ellis. lhis collection includes 98 hour-long programs featuring kūpuna discussing a wide array of topics.

KANI'ĀINA Continued from page 10 Native Hawaiian language speakers conducted by a team of hosts over an ll-year period: Kalani Akana, Hailama Farden, Melelani Pang, and mānaleo Elizabeth Kauahipaula, Kanoelani McGuire, and Ipo Wong. Similar to the earlier Ka Leo Hawai'i radio programs, phone calls from the puhlie were welcomed to support the goals of viewing and hearing Hawaiian on television to promote the learning and perpetuation of the Hawaiian language and culture. We are very excited that the public will now get the ehanee to interact online with the knowledge imparted by all the hulu kūpuna in the Nā Hulu Kūpuna and Mānaleo TV collections. Be-

fore today, Kani'āina consisted of a wealth of some 525 hours of the audio-only Ka Leo Hawai'i radio program with kūpuna mānaleo who graciously shared their memories and 'ike of Hawaiian eulture through their interviews hosted by Larry "Kauanoe" Kimura from 1972-1988. The addition of many hours of video footage from these two collections marks an exciting milestone in Kani'āina's mission to make Hawaiian native speaker material available to the Hawaiian-speak-ing community, family members, and those working to revitalize the language. Our hope is that we ean all continue to learn from the 'ike left behind by these kūpuna to ground our lāhui to our Hawaiian plaee and cultural identity. These interviews are now available online at the Kani'āina website: www.ulukau.org/kaniaina. ■