Hoʻonaʻauao

naʻauao: nvt. learned, enlightened, intelligent, wise; learning, knowledge, wisdom. hoʻonaʻauao: to educate, instruct.

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Integral to huiMAU's mission is the practice and process of hoʻonaʻauao, reciprocal education and consciousness raising. One of our long-term goals is to collectively restore community knowledge of place through ʻāina- and culture-based educational initiatives that focus particularly on reconnecting us to ancestral knowledge of place and enacting kuleana through place-specific practices of mālama ʻāina.

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Keiki Papa: 
Keiki Papa Programs include in-school, intercession / summer programs, and annual ʻŌpio Fest that have served youth  and their ʻohana in our Hāmākua community since 2016, providing safe Hawaiian culture-based, ʻāina learning environments for our youth to cultivate strong relationships and support networks with ʻāina, ʻohana, peers, and mentors to support their education and growth as keiki papa in our communities. A recent video about these programs can be viewed on our website at: https://www.alaulili.com/media.html

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KOʻA Camps: 

Foundational to our work is ʻāina (land) and aloha ʻāina—healthy, reciprocal relationships we develop with ʻāina by cultivating and caring for ʻāina, and sharing in its abundance. Continuing the pathways for our keiki to develop as aloha ʻāina in our community, huiMAU implements Koholālele ʻŌpio ʻĀina Camps (KOʻA Camps) for ages 13-17, including our Mālama ʻĀina Camp and Spring Break Camp. huiMAU’s KOʻA Camps are 4-day immersive overnight programs, which seek to mentor Hawaiʻi ʻōpio in Hawaiian culture-based values and practices of ʻohana, kuleana, and aloha ʻāina. 

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ʻUmi-a-Līloa Mural Project:
Paʻauilo Elementary & Middle School

Between January and May 2015, ʻŌiwi artist and huiMAU leader, Haley Kailiehu, in collaboration with students of Paʻauilo School and the Paʻauilo Boys & Girls Club, led the creation of our ʻUmi-a-Līloa Mural at Paʻauilo School. The mural is a visual representation of one of the most important chiefs in the history of Hawaiʻi, ʻUmi-a-Līloa, who was born and raised near Paʻauilo in Hāmākua, and whose reign established a self-sustaining, highly productive, and unified society on this island generations ago—an important model for us to strive towards today. 

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Moʻolelo no ʻUmi Blog:

"He Moolelo no Umi" is one of the earliest known published versions of the story of ʻUmi-a-Līloa, the great chief of Hāmākua, Hawaiʻi. The version of this story that is republished and translated here was first published by Simeon Keliikaapuni in 1862, in a Hawaiian language newspaper, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. Our kūpuna valued this moʻolelo and the lessons it imbued upon each generation who learned it. We, in the same spirit that inspired our kūpuna to retell this moʻolelo, represent it here, in both its original language and in english, so that our generation and the many generations to come may derive knowledge from the important lessons held within this moʻolelo. And so that we, kamaʻāina of Hāmākua, may find pride in the deep cultural heritage and history of our beloved homelands, the birthplace of this great chief, ʻUmi-a-Līloa.