Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives will continue its virtual speaker series “Archives and Inquiry” on March 22, 2022 from 12pm to 1pm on Zoom. “Community Treasures: Objects and Cultural Meaning” will focus on the Hawaiian language holdings of the Hawaiian Mission Houses’ Archives. This virtual presentation is an English language version of a presentation given February 2, 2022 during Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi – Hawaiian Language Month. The speakers will be bringing attention to HMH archival holdings related to the Aliʻi Letters Collection, the Genealogy and Hawaiian Evangelical Association Collection, Kapa from the Whitney Collections, and the Micronesian Mission Collections. The presentation will feature Kalikoaloha Martin, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Ami Mulligan, and Sara Kuaiwa as guest speakers. Kalikoaloha Martin, Jr. Kalikoaloha is a long-time resident of Waipiʻo, ʻEwa. He is a hula student of Hālau Nā Kamalei o Lililehua, an instructor of Hawaiian language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a graduate student in political science, and a translator for Awaiaulu. Halena Kapuni-Reynolds Halena is a doctoral student in American Studies and Museum Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He was raised in the rainforest of ʻōlaʻa and the Hawaiian homestead community of Keaukaha in the ahupuaʻa of Waiākea, and was educated at Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo and Ke Ana Laʻahana. For his dissertation, he is writing a decolonial story for Keaukaha. Ami Mulligan Ami Mālie Mulligan is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research involves studying changing conceptions of kinship in Hawai‘i during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sarah Kuaiwa Sarah Kuaiwa is a historian, art historian, and genealogist from Waimalu, Oʻahu. Her ʻohana has been living in and around Puʻuloa for the past four generations. Sarah is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. She specializes in nineteenth-century Hawaiian History and her dissertation looks at creativity in kapa production in the early Hawaiian Kingdom (1810–50). Kuaiwa completed her BA cum laude in Art History and Visual Arts from Occidental College and her MA in History with a focus in Hawaiian History from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She owns and operates Kuaola or Bust, a consulting firm that specializes in Hawaiian archival research and genealogy. Kuaiwa is the recently appointed Curator of Hawaii and Pacific Cultural Resources at the Bishop Museum. Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 834 5996 6594 Passcode: archives