“In the land is many things. Thatʻs where our food comes. That is where our culture comes and our language comes from the land. Everything. Thatʻs ʻaina. We Hawaiians come from the ʻaina.” Kawika Kaʻalakea, Minister & Herbalist
And who am I?
For the curious, this is what I looked like in 1998 while interviewing Isabella Abbott on a Maui beach. Dr. Abbott is not in these photos below; however, her photo is in the next blog post. Selfies weren’t big back in 1998 so I don’t have many photos of myself interviewing these kupuna. But, for some reason, photographer Steve Brinkman snapped …
Why this book? Why this blog?
This blog is not about me. I will write it, of course, but, it’s to be about the 24 Hawaiians I interviewed in 1998 — an aged generation (then) who spurred and encouraged the renaissance of Hawaiian culture that happened in the 1960s and the 1970s. They are all experts in different aspects of their culture, so, if you want to …