Contents: A Search for Küulakai; Aumäkua of Kona, Oahu; Voyaging Chiefs of Käneohe Bay; Killing the Cannibal King; He Mele No Käne: A Song of Life; A Twisted Tale: Jack London’s "Koolau the Leper"

Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place

Politics & Social Sciences

Kawaharada, Dennis

Kawaharada, Dennie

Social Sciences

Dennis Kawaharada

These are stories of Oahu before high rises, freeways, and hotels, before sugar plantations and pineapple fields, before churches and bibles. Culled from the collections of Abraham Fornander (1812-1887) and Thomas G. Thrum (1842-1932), the stories present an ancient history of the island and its people, telling of the heroes, ancestral spirits, and demigods who performed good works and punished evil-doers.

Ancient Oahu: Stories from Fornander & Thrum, new exp. ed.

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kalahele is a collection of poetry and art by a kanaka maoli poet, artist, and musician. Kalahele's work has been published in such seminal anthologies of native Hawaiian literature as Mälama: Hawaiian Land and Water, Hoomänoa, and Öiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal.

Kalahele

Kalahele, Imaikalani

Poetry

Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawaii takes the reader on a journey through Hawaii's multiethnic society during the second half of the twentieth century. In eight autobiographical essays, the author looks back at his colonial upbringing and education and his attempt to find a center from which to develop beliefs and values that fit the land, sea, community, and cultures in which he grew up. He examines the tensions among descendants of natives, immigrants, and colonials and the roles that place, race, class, culture, and nation have played in shaping his identity.

Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawaii

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The classic Hawaiian story about a mistreated attendant regaining his position at court with the help of his precocious son and a magical wind gourd.

The Wind Gourd of Laamaomao

Nakuina, Moses K.

Reference

Hawaiian Fishing Traditions celebrates the great fishers of ancient Hawai‘i, known for attracting and propagating fish, inventing fishing techniques, and bringing in extraordinary catches. The most famous of these fishers was Kû‘ula-kai, who became deified as an ‘aumakua (god) of fishing because of his power to control fish. He built a fishpond in Hâna to keep the ali‘i and the people continuously supplied with seafood. His son ‘Ai‘ai continued his father’s good work by locating offshore fishing grounds called ko‘a, teaching people how to catch fish, and telling them to practice conservation and to distribute the catch generously. He estabished fishing shrines, also called ko‘a, and told fishers to offer the first fish to his father and mother as thanks-giving, to insure a good supply, and to lift the kapu on the catch and free it for consumption.

Hawaiian Fishing Traditions: Revised Edition 2006

Manu, Moke

Anthropology

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