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Kal?kaua came to power backed by men who would later become his foes—the sugar planters. One of his first acts as king was negotiating the Treaty of…

Hunting is a valued traditional past time in Hawai?i. For many socially-conscious hunters it is a means to gather quality meat from a trusted and often…

Yesterday Kekuhi Keali‘ikanaka‘oleohaililani told the story of the goddess Hi‘iaka’s first hula—and when Kekuhi herself is in the forest, she says, her…

The ??hi?a tree is a statewide symbol of Hawai?i's forests. Over the past five years, ??hi?a appear to be dying rapidly and under mysterious circumstances…

For millennia, Hawai‘i had an oral society: The people themselves were the keepers of knowledge—mo‘?lelo that was passed down from generation to…

As Hawaiian society grew and evolved, so too did complex systems that were designed to achieve maximum harmony and abundance. The land was sorted into…

Welcome to the sixty-fifth and final episode of Aloha ‘?ina. Over the course of this series we’ve explored Hawaiian kinship with the natural world,…

As Hawai‘i’s human population grew and the need for resources increased, the importance of managing those resources wisely became ever more apparent—and…

In 1848 Kauikeaouli’s government set out to organize, in paper form, all four million of Hawai‘i’s acres. The king continued to see imperial aggression as…