Kahana Designs·Oct 18Kiʻi: The Meaning Behind Hawaiʻi’s Sacred Carved Images (Not “Tiki”)On a lava-rock shoreline on Hawaiʻi Island, six wooden figures stand taller than a person, their carved faces turned toward the sea…
Tam Hunt·Jun 11What Mālama ʻĀina Means to MeCaring for the land that feeds us — and how a lifetime of work protecting the environment lines up with Hawaiian values. I an incorporating…
Tam Hunt·Jun 6The Ahupuaʻa Revival: How Can We Learn from Traditional Hawaiian Food Systems?[This blog is part of a series on local food systems arising from my work at my nonprofit, Think BIG, and my campaign as the resilience…
Kahana Designs·May 26The Hawaiian monk seal: an endangered beach dwellerThe Hawaiian monk seal is one of the rarest mammals on earth. A grown seal hauled out on a quiet beach can look like a smooth gray stone…
Kahana Designs·May 25Māui the demigod: how he slowed the sun in HawaiʻiLong before Maui became a name on license plates and surf towels, it belonged to a demigod — and to the story of how he slowed the sun. The…
Kahana Designs·May 24The history of hula: sacred rite to performance artThe history of hula begins long before stages, audiences, or visitor lūʻau. In the Hawaiian world, hula was chant in motion — a sacred way…
Kahana Designs·May 23Common Hawaiian words you already know, and what they meanYou almost certainly speak more Hawaiian than you realize. Common Hawaiian words like aloha, mahalo, and ʻohana have traveled out of the…
Kahana Designs·May 20King Kamehameha: the unifier of the Hawaiian IslandsKing Kamehameha — Kamehameha the Great — is the figure most people picture when they think of pre-contact Hawaiian history. He is the chief…
