Past Before Us: Mo'oku'auhau as Methodology

Past Before Us: Mo'oku'auhau as MethodologyThe title of the book, The Past before Us, refers to the importance of ka w mamua or the time in front in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies. These contributors, Knaka writing from Hawaii as well as from the diaspora throughout the Pacific and North America,

organic beeswax from Big Island is the base for our handcrafted lip balms

an ex-K9 cop and kindred spirit with the keys to unlock the dark underworld of animal theft in the islands

Loretta Ritte

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Hawaiian Herbal Tea grown on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi

Arthur Godfrey

He puke nō kēia e haʻi ana i nā moʻolelo hoʻokaulana i ia wahi ʻo ʻEwa

and Hawai'i's metamorphosis was so profound that in some ways the contact-era Hawaiian states bear a closer resemblance to our world than to that of their closely-related Eastern Polynesian contemporaries