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Kōnea o Kukui: To Restore the Light                                             Ke Ola Magazine Jan. / Feb. 2023

1/9/2023

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View of the garden from above. Pavilion on the right. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
With the passage of time, a place becomes layered with the spirits of beings and events that hold the stories and wisdom of those who have gone before. Many may not notice or recognize the spirit of the land, but on Hawai‘i Island, it is still very much alive, if one listens to what Hawaiians call mana.
   Nani Svendsen is one such person. Along with the hearts and hands of many others, she has created a beautiful refuge, called Kōnea o Kukui. “Kukui means light or enlightenment. I didn’t give it that name; it’s been in my family for seven generations,” said Nani. 
PictureNani in her element. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
Roots in the Land Holding Steady
   Nani had an ideal, land-based childhood. “I grew up on the Kohala ditch; we were the last family to live there. My parents’ job was to regulate the water. I was born in Kohala but I was raised in Waiapuka, two miles up where they used to start Fluminʻ Da Ditch. There was nobody around us, the stream ran next to the house, and we were isolated from everyone else. Off the grid. So, it was furo [Japanese bath], kerosene lamps and stove. Lived like that until I was 11,” remembered Nani.
   Nani’s ancestors came to Kohala during Kamehameha’s time. “They were from Hana, Maui and they were stewards to the heiau [temple] on the bluff at Keokea,” said Nani. Since that time, the land has gone through many phases and witnessed many family events. At times it’s been a home dwelling, while at other times a refuge.

A River Runs Through It
   Perched above Kēōkea, the botanical residents of Kōnea o Kukui cluster around a stream whose journey feeds into the Pacific at Kēōkea  Beach Park. I arrived at the garden on a sunny day in May, and Nani greeted me at the top. The first view of the garden was from the perspective of a floating cloud just above a lush, orderly jungle of greens and flowers. To the left is a lo‘i (taro patch) and in the center is a small house and a pavilion.
   Nani and I talked story for a few moments and during that time, I felt the pull, an irresistible invitation. The trail to the garden slopes downhill and is lined with red and green ti, ferns, coconut palms, begonia, and hala trees. The first thing I noticed is that everything slows, like there is no time at all. A switchback led us further down. We stopped on the trail to be welcomed by a Java rice bird who sat on the branch of a ti plant—it had a lot to say that morning. When it was done talking, we were allowed passage.
   A bridge crosses the stream at the bottom of the trail and then we were in the heart of the matter. We passed a pond with lotus blossoms as we climbed up the bank on the other side. Looking downstream I saw into a community of connected beings, a chorus of welcome.
   Nani’s many years as a florist are reflected in the garden. The place spoke to her of color, contrast and balance. Where there were disconnected pools, Nani saw a channel of flowing water. 

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The stream continues its journey to the sea at Keokea Beach Park. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
PictureNani's granddaughter, Kainani, on the trail entering the garden. Photo courtesy of Nani Svendsen.
A Lotus Blossom Arises from the Darkness
   The Kohala of Nani’s childhood began to be overshadowed by outside pressures that affected both her immediate family and the community. Dismayed and determined to do something about the problem, Nani, Dennis Matsuda, and community members led a successful effort for a drug rehabilitation house for recovering men in Hawi, When the house was set up, Nani turned her focus on her own healing process.
   “I decided I wanted to build, what for me, was going to be my happy place. It was about the life or death of me. To find my peace. I knew this place [Kōnea o Kukui] had a stream running through it and I started chopping. I had no idea where I was going to take it, but I wanted to remember my beautiful life. I need to feel this, see it, smell it, be in it,” recalled Nani.
   Using a chainsaw, machete, shovels and o‘o bar, Nani began an odyssey of self-discovery. Then she got a call from Wes Markum, director of the rehabilitation house in Hawi, and he asked her about inviting the residents to come work with her. Her first response was, “No.” Hadn’t she done enough? Then her heart spoke, and she realized that, “Most of these people, they’re all islanders removed from their culture and that is one of the important facets to recovery.”
   The men came every Wednesday for a few hours. Their hearts came alive with memories. They said things like, “This reminds me of when I was with my grandma and grandpa,” and, “This is like Waipi‘o.” She asked every person about their profession and discovered skills among the men such as a rock wall builder, and landscaper, just waiting to be tapped.
   Eventually student groups were coming, and soon Nani was pitching a 20 by 20-foot tent for meetings. “My husband, Don, decided to build the pavilion. We had to haul everything down this trail. Everybody worked like a team, passing station to station, all the way down the hill. It took about four weeks,” said Nani. Working together with the volunteers changed her husband’s life—it changed hers.

 Uncovering Treasure through Community Connections
   Nani has come full circle and a forgotten treasure has been brought back to life, touching her life and the lives of the many who came to Kōnea o Kukui to work and be healed. “This is a restoration project of a lifetime, hopefully not just my lifetime. It’s layered. So many layers to the existence from this place,” reflected Nani.
   When Nani began the garden odyssey, the land was covered in hau, and java plum trees. It was also populated with mosquitoes. When they started to clear it, they discovered a taro farm that hadn’t been used since the mid-1950s. “Once that stopped, the hau became the straight tall timbers that were used by the voyaging canoes,” recalled Nani.
   During this initial clearing, Nani’s daughter, Punahele was attending Kanu o ka ‘Āina school. At that time teachers and voyagers, ‘Ōnohi Chadd Paishon and Pomai Bertelmann were looking for materials to repair Makali‘i and to build Alingano Maisu for master navigator, Mau Piailug and they could see that the place had what they were looking for. “They brought the students down and they harvested and packed it up the hill. When they built the canoe, they used hau from here,” said Nani. (See: Na Kalai Wa'a  https://www.nakalaiwaa.org/ )
   As the excavation continued, “We could see the terraces, the original walls and the ‘auwai (ditch). The walls were carbon dated by archaeologist Dr. Michael Graves and he found they were dated between 1570 and 1650. From the head of the ‘auwai down to Keokea,” said Nani.
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One of many waterfalls and pools along the stream's journey to the sea. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
A Continuing Gift of Love
   “Maybe a cultural place, maybe a healing place, maybe a safe place. While I still try to put my finger on it, I get to feel like everything stops. Whatever hassle is going on, whatever trouble I have, whatever trouble somebody else has. If I slowly walk down the trail something shifts, and you walk easy with a little more light in your heart. Maybe I can do this, maybe a week, maybe I can just do this,” reflected Nani.
   It was not only the men who were healed. “I had a lot of older women coming to support. They were like the tūtū for the young men, and they worked alongside them. They gave of themselves and they too were healed,” said Nani.
   Despite the closing of the Hawi rehabilitation house in 2013, weekly meetings continue at Kōnea o Kukui, with the spirit of the land inviting returning visitors into a healing circle.
   Kōnea o Kukui is an unusual project because it doesn’t survive on grants as much as on passion. 90 percent of this is from people’s good-heartedness. “All I am doing is to try to steward this place and keep it with the right intention, to just have a safe space, a feel-good space that honors the ancestors, honors the culture, honors each other,” said Nani. “We are responsible for each other. We are all connected. I believe in energy and I believe that if you are not at your best, there is energy out there to help,” she adds.
   The spirit of the land waits patiently and when we call out it answers. “I struggle with the sustainability of the place. Along with everything that has been here there has been trust that it’s going to work,” reflects Nani. “There is an ‘andʻ—itʻs this ‘andʻ it’s nature. I can hear the birds here. I can feel the wind. There’s a connection. We forget. We get caught up so much with daily struggles, that we forget where to go to get our own healing,” reflects Nani.
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Photo by Jan Wizinowich
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Canoe Connections Across the Pacific: The Kauai Community College’s Maritime Voyaging Program

3/16/2021

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    The voyaging canoes are a reawakening of the old songlines, knowing without words, heard in the stillness between breaths, the shout and pulse of the wind as it creates an atlas of clouds and dances the water’s surface hinting at the primal powers shifting below. Songlines, which are, “…the equivalent of maps of experience… combine mythology with family and clan history,” are drawing listeners from all Pacific cultures to embark on the journey that follows from the heart, to engage with the wisdom of the ancestors. Hōkūleʽa was a contemporary starting point but her voyages have, in retracing the paths of the ancestors, awakened the songlines for others. “Every day there is at least one canoe on the water in the Pacific,” observes 'Onohi Chadd Paishon, Pwo navigator and canoe captain.
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Dennis Chun and maritime students lashing down the training canoe. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
    It’s April 2012 and there are a group of maritime students from Japan with their Kauaʽi Community College teachers Dennis Chun and Kyoko Ikeda, getting hands on sailing experience with the Makali`i crew, using smaller training canoes contributed by Hualalai Bertlemann. I’m sitting with Pomai Bertelmann and Kyoko Ikeda as Dennis and the students lash down the waʽa for the day. Located just north of Pelekane Bay, the small dock in front of the YMCA sailing program compound, next to Hale Kukui, Makali'i headquarters. When they’re finished it’s all in the water, including Dennis, who soon joins us.
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Maritime students lash down the training canoe. Dennis and 'Onohi center foreground. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
    The 2007 Hōkūleʽa voyage to Japan was the songline that connected Japan with the island of Kauaʽi and a traditional voyaging course at Kauaʽi Community College (KCC). But the voyaging connection with Japan goes back further to Tiger Espere.  Pomai Bertelmann explains, “Tiger started out on Hōkūleʽa and moved to Waimea and helped with the building of Makaliʽi. He was the one who founded Nā Kalei Waʽa, but after a while, 1998, Tiger moved to Japan.  He lived in Japan for a while and in moving to Japan he actually was taken care of by the community of Shichirigahama and Kamakura. And while he was there he was writing for one of the magazines there and really being inspired by the people; he was really inspired at that time to build a vessel. Tiger passed away right before the voyage in 2007.”
    One special connection was made between Tiger and Tora Mosai, a professor at one of the universities. Dennis explains: “They actually hit it off, connected. He teaches, well he used to teach at a university where some of the students that are here attended. He did extensive research on maritime conditions around the world. He was so inspired by Hōkūleʽa. Even before Hōkūleʽa he did research on Polynesian Voyages. Some of his research was in Japan, the early era of the discovery of Japan, ancient names and mythologies and what he’s finding is a lot of connections in Polynesia with Japan in those early years. There seems to be more contact and more communication, more interchange than modern people believe. We think insular, little spheres, but you know there’s the larger sphere of the whole ocean…they (Tiger and Mosai) inspired the rest of the community about building a vessel.”
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Tiger Espere at the helm of Hōkūleʽa as she arrives in Kamakura, Japan. http://archive.hokulea.com/holokai/2007/japan_6_yokohama.html
    The inter-institutional arrangement of Japanese Maritime Colleges and Kauaʽi Community College, came about through some serendipitous connections between Dennis, Kyoko and Tomoki Oku.  Dennis had gotten to know Kyoko through preparations for the 2007 voyage. “When they were planning the sail to Japan she was part of a team of East-West Center grad students, who were charged with developing the educational program for the voyage from Hawai'i, to Satawal on to Okinawa with Alingano Maisu. Kyoko had professional training as a translator; that’s how she got involved with Hōkūleʽa.” 
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Program founders, Dennis Chun and Kyoko Ikeda at Kawaihae. Photo by Jan Wizinowich
    Dennis came aboard Hōkūleʽa in Japan on the 2007 voyage, where he also met up with Tomoki Oku and Kazu Nishimura, pilots the Japanese government provided as a guide to the unfamiliar waters.  Tomo, who was on faculty at one of the maritime colleges, was completely astounded by Hōkūleʽa.
    “So he came on, it was a job you know, the government was paying him.  But then he got on Hōkū and he was like wow, non- instrument. He knew instruments upside down backwards, celestial navigation upside down backwards, but without instruments and then the whole cultural side of it, the background, the basis, the foundation of maritime traditions, it was like wow, heavy yeah.  Both of them, Kazu as well as Tomo were just awed by the whole thing, really got involved and it became more than just a job. ‘We’re going to take care of you in Japan and we want to learn from you guys too.’”
    At the heart of voyaging is old knowledge that lives in the unconscious mind and allows navigators to connect with the tangible world through subtle means. Tomo got a glimmer of  this while on a training sail to Kauaʽi from Oʽahu.
    “So he came on and mid-channel we was talking story, it started raining, pouring, no can see the stars and he goes, ‘How can you tell where you going?’ I told him, you got to feel the waves. In the middle of the rain, he kind of threw it out, ‘Hey, what if I bring students? Would you guys be open to do something with maritime students?’  You know, local style, yeah sure come. These guys when they say something, they serious, they going to find a way to do it.”
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Hōkūleʽa arriving at Yokohama, Japan. http://archive.hokulea.com/holokai/2007/japan_6_yokohama.html
     With the realization that Dennis taught college students, he began to think about an institution to institution arrangement. By the time they returned to O'ahu, Tomo had invited Dennis to Japan to plan. Tomo flew back to Japan on a separate flight from Dennis who was headed to Kamakura, Japan. “I call ahead and ask Kyoko if she can translate for me when I go to Kamakura to do this talk over there.  She’s at the airport waiting for me, Tomo comes in and Tomo’s black cause he was sailing with us, we were all dark. She sees the back of Tomo wearing a Hōkūleʽa shirt and, ‘Oh, that must be Dennis’, so she goes, gets closer and then, ‘Oh, that’s not Dennis. How come he’s got a Hōkūleʽa shirt and he’s carrying a dry bag and the flight just came from Hawaiʽi?’ So she was talking to Tomo and he was saying yeah, I was just sailing to Kauaʽi on Hōkūleʽa.  And she says, ‘You know this guy Dennis?’ And he says, ‘Yeah, he was my captain, he’s on the next flight.’ I get off the plane and the two of them's over there and we kind of re-unite.”
    Dennis was scheduled to give a lecture, “Kamakura was trying to build this canoe; they asked me to come to talk about what are the challenges to building a canoe from a grass roots standpoint.  Cause we’re (Kauaʽi) building our canoe and it’s 10 years in the making.  I can tell you all the challenges, a long process, so I talk about that. What is the focus? You got to have a good reason. What’s your foundations? You got to have committed people, some financial income, it’s always a struggle.”
    Tomo quickly decided to seize this opportunity, “He lives in Toyama, on the whole other side of the island. So he rushes home, drives back to Kamakura and he sits in, listens to the lecture and he stays over night with us and we end up talking story, the three of us (Tomo, Kyoko, Dennis) until 3:00 in the morning and in that time, the three of us develop this concept, this idea, even a curriculum you might say on integrating Polynesian wayfinding into Japanese maritime curriculum on navigation and decide to move forward and try to develop an international agreement. 
    "I flew back to my college after that, he goes back, Kyoko’s like the go-between.  Kyoko’s kind of like the glue in a sense; she’s the one keeping us grounded. She knows from the English as a second language standpoint, what are some of the pitfalls, what are some of the ways to get these kids to open up, get them to work to increase their own language abilities.”
    In record time, this dynamic triumvirate had a formal agreement. “Within 9 months we had an international agreement signed, we have exchanges, we have the president coming over, meeting us, seeing our campus. Real formal people, they coming in a suit and tie and I’m in jeans and a t-shirt.  You know I got to wear an aloha shirt, I got to wear shoes, you know, I don’t have nice pants.  But it’s cool and they invite us to go there to see their place and that’s within 9 months. 
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Hōkūleʽa is greeted by Kamakura surfers. http://archive.hokulea.com/holokai/2007/japan_6_yokohama.html
    "In March, we got this program and then the students come over. Then the second year all of a sudden, we’re bringing in all the other 4 maritime colleges.  I go back to Japan again, cause I got to go visit all these maritime colleges, promote the program, explain to them.  The first year (2009) I tell Pomai (Bertelmann) and Nohe can these guys come, we no more canoe but I like to take them out. I want a cultural experience for them, but really down home.  It’s growing, it’s still growing and it’s only 3 years, but very positive on all sides.”
    The gathering at Kawaihae is only one of many serendipitous intercultural experiences that arise when aloha and the oceanic world meet.
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Japanese maritime students and program staff. https://www.forkauaionline.com/japanese-cadets-aboard-nippon-maru-visit-kauai/
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Bringing  Hōkūleʽa Home: The Community Gathers to Honor Waimea Voyagers      North Hawaii News   April 7, 2017

6/16/2017

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PicturePomai Bertelmann and Ka'iulani Murphy steer for home
On Wed. April 12 at 5 p.m., the community will gather at Kahilu Town Hall to honor the Waimea canoe crew members who will be sailing Hōkūleʽa home from Tahiti on the last leg of her Mālama
Honua Voyage.
    Although sharing Waimea roots, each crew member has their own journey to the canoe. Kala Thomas, who will sail on the escort canoe Hikianalia, grew up with the canoe in Waimea. 
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“Kala Thomas was in seventh grade when Uncle Tiger Espere, Steve Coffee, and Gary Benson built the Hoku’ili’ili at the school. He helped build that. So his genealogy is actually from that time,” said Pomai Bertelmann, who will captain
Hōkūleʽa.

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Pua Lincoln
    Pua Lincoln, who will be part of the navigation team on Hōkūleʽa a, was at Waimea Elementary when Mauloa sailed into her life. “My first official introduction to any canoe was when Mauloa was built. I was at Waimea Elementary and they took her into the gym and set her up and when I saw her, I was just awestruck. And then later on I got trained to sail that canoe and that was the hook,” said Lincoln.
​    From an early age Lincoln was aware of her family’s voyaging legacy. “I had heard stories from my own k
ūpuna and my father about our ancestral migrational path and how we came from a family of voyagers,” said Lincoln. Lincoln is humbled and honored, “To be part of this epic journey to bring Hōkūleʽa home. When she comes home, it's full circle and all about returning her back to all of those people whose prayers have kept her going, moving and afloat, perpetuating her ability to persevere,” said Lincoln.
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Ka'iulani Murphy 2000 voyage.
    After finishing high school at Kamehameha Schools on O'ahu, lead navigator Ka’iulani Murphy found her way to the canoe when she attended a lecture by Nainoa Thompson at the Hawaiian Studies Center at U.H. Manoa.
    “To hear Nainoa talk, I was in awe and my sophomore year I took voyaging courses.
Hōkūleʽa was in dry dock and so I spent Saturdays and volunteer work days there. When she was relaunched spring semester, our class got to sail her to Molokai as part of her sea trials. I was one of the few that didn't get seasick so they asked me to come back,” said Murphy.
    But Murphy also has strong roots with the ʽāina
in Waimea and in her family’s Waipi'o Valley loi where they grew kalo. “All three of us Pomai, Pua Lincoln and I all grew up in Kūhiō Village. My mom's father is from Waipiʽo and growing up our family spent just about every weekend there on the ʽāina. I realized later how fortunate we were to grow up like that,” said Murphy.
    In 2000 Murphy took her first blue water voyage from Tahiti to Hawai'i and she looks forward to repeating the experience. “I love that my first voyage was coming home to Hawai'i. It's really special to see the islands pulled up from the sea. It really gives you a sense of how our k
ūpuna first saw the islands when they came” said Murphy.
​    Although a repeat of her 2000 experience, this voyage will take Murphy to the next level in a long journey with the canoe. “Pomai and I were nervous about stepping into those roles but at the same time realizing it isn't about us, but about our teachers making the investment over the years, hoping that we would assume the roles as time went on. But oh my gosh, it's now already?” said Murphy.

PictureClay Bertelmann
    Pomai Bertelmann, who will captain the voyage, has grown up with the canoe. Her father Clay Bertelmann was instrumental in the creation of Mauloa, Makali’i and Na Kalai Wa'a, the Hawai'i Island canoe builders.
    For Bertelmann this final leg and the entire Malama Honua represents the next phase, “The leadership’s vision of succession. Over the last 40 years we've evolved into a thriving voyaging family and community. It is a great image to see all of these diverse people coming together and see this moku move forward because of all of that collaboration. A life force that comes into one entity and works synergistically.”
    Synergy was at work in the creation of a crew list, a complicated task that was shared with Murphy. “What we worked to do was create lists on our own, come back and match them up. I had to remember, go back through all kinds of documentations, crew lists and look at different skills. It's been a lot of relying upon what I've learned and solidifying decisions with pule,” said Bertelmann. ​

PictureScott Kanda, Oiwi T.V.
    A crucial quality for crew members is the willingness to participate in exchanges with the community, without which none of this would be possible. “This voyage is what the community has given to us. It’s an indication that the community has supported us and has been behind us all the way,” said Bertelmann.
    Technological improvements have made it possible to engage communities across the globe. Scot Kanda, who grew up in Honoka'a and works with Oiwi T.V. will be sailing on Hikianalia. Kanda brings communication skills to the canoe. “They stand their watch and then they go into the editing bay and they cut and they edit raw footage,” said Bertelmann.
​    When the voyage is completed, the 'Ohana Wa'a will begin to put lessons learned into place on our ʽāina. “In the wake of this voyage, to see the collective team that may be coming together to move forward with the larger purpose of ʽāina-based education in our schools and communities,” said Bertelmann.


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The voyage home will be one of gratitude for Hōkūleʽa’s far-reaching influence. “Voyaging is one thing, but language, education, music, dancing all of those things were ignited by the matriarch Hōkūleʽa ,” said Lincoln.​
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Makahiki: Connecting with the Ancient Ways                              West Hawai'i Today: November 27th, 2016

11/27/2016

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Rains and wind scour Hawaii Island and Makali'i rises in the east at sunset. Lono is afoot. The Makahiki season, a time for connection and rejuvenation, has arrived. In its third year, the Ka Makahiki Pule ʽĀina Holo, a circle island prayer run, will take place from Wednesday evening, Nov. 9 through Sun. Nov. 13. On Wed. Oct 20, an orientation for the run was held at Kanu o ka ʽĀina gym.       ​

PictureKu'ulei Keakealani
     Ku‛ulei Keakealani began the session by sharing the story of Makaiole and Kamiki, heroic brothers who travel from Kohanaiki to Lanimaumau (Lakeland), Mahiki (Mud Lane), Waipio and Lake Waiau, performing astonishing physical feats, orienting the group to the historical significance of places that will be traversed during the run. “I want to try and find or make connections to what will occur in a few weeks. Make connections to some place names, perhaps some pu'u, some lakes, hopefully there will be familiarity.”

PictureLanakila Mangauil and Lono staff
    Ka Makahiki Pule ʽĀina Holo emerged from the experiences of Hāmākua cultural practitioner, Lanakila Mangauil as a way to create a contemporary connection with life-sustaining ancestral practices. While astonishing physical feats are very much a part of Hawaiian cultural history, many great accomplishments were achieved through the combined efforts of everyone. This was highlighted by Mangauil through a story of drought and famine in Hāmākua, where it was only when all the people stopped complaining and joined in the ceremony that the rains finally came.
    “Don't wait for superman, when we see something that needs to be done, we just get up and do it,” says Mangauil, which was something he experienced during a 2004 cultural exchange program with the Pit River and Hopi tribes.
​    “The ancestral run was created by the elders of the Pit River Tribe in the 90's as a ceremony to address the situation of their people. A lot of drug, alcohol abuse was happening in their community. They needed something to bring the people together, traditions, stories, blessings,” says Mangauil.   
    Mangauil continued to run with the tribes for another five years until one year he gave voice to the idea of holding a prayer run in Hawai'i. “I literally went to the fire and said, 'I want to do one like this in Hawai'i'.”
    The seed was planted and in a few months the shoots began to appear. “That first year, back in 2014 was our first Makahiki run, it was literally two weeks before. Just putting out the prayer, putting out the thought and let's just see what we come up with. It was raw,” said Mangauil.
   
Mangauil could find no traditions of prayer runs in Hawai'i but when he asked himself, “What other tradition do we have about circling the island?” The answer was, “Makahiki. The traditional practice of the circuit of the high chiefs and the kahuna.”
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The Makahiki procession was always done clockwise beginning in Kealakekua. “They always walked clockwise to cleanse the land. Right hand you receive, left hand you give so it passes in and goes out this side. They were hooking any hana ino (negativity) from the land and casting it out that (ocean) side,” says Mangauil.

PictureMakahiki runners through Kona
      As often when a clear intention is sent out, the universe conspires to manifest it. “It came so quickly, I couldn't ignore. For the staff I thought of a ki'i and low and behold, Uncle Kanani Kaulu Kukui from Kona carved the ki'i,” says Mangauil. And the kapa for the Lono staff appeared from a serendipitous encounter. “I met Dalani Tanahy, a kapa maker from Maui, at the Merry Monarch and she made the kapa for the Lono staff,” says Mangauil.
    As the runners travel the Island it’s an opportunity for communities to share their best. “We encourage the communities in the evening, to come out and kanikapila and share food, stories, dance. It’s not necessarily mea (things) Hawai'i, but people being able to come out and show what they worked on, be thankful for what they’ve been able to produce,” says Mangauil.
    The Makahiki run is in its third year and the first shoots have grown deeper roots and extended branches.  That first year 20 Pit River tribal members came to join the run and this year there will be 50 guests from various tribes, coming to add their prayers to the growing number of Island runners.
    “We would like to have entire communities represented. We would like to have cross country teams from different schools involved,” says Pua Case, who will be providing orientation sessions leading up to the event, including a special chant and hula. “This is about prayer and purpose and culture and that has to be in everybody's mind when they’re running, footsteps on the ground, Lono on the ground running. Prayers high,” says Case.
    Waimea runners will include the Keakealani family, represented by Ku‛ulei and her daughters Kamehana, Nahenani and Ka‛io, who will receive the Lono staff from the Kohala runners at Lanikepu (upper H.P.A. campus); Kanu o ka ‛Āina middle and high school students, coordinated by Kanoa Castro, Pomai Bertelmann and Chelsey Dickson; and Punanaleo and Alo Kehau Hawaiian emersion schools, who will also provide lunch. 
     Ka Makahiki Pule Aina Holo is a budding tradition with old roots. “Every tradition was created by a person at a time and it only became tradition because it was practiced over and over and over again and it worked. As we create traditions that work that are pono, it will become the traditions for our children's, children's children,” says Manguail. It is an opportunity, “To bring the whole Island into a consciousness of gratitude. When we run we are also giving something. We're offering ourselves, a sacrifice of our best,” he adds.

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Makahiki 2016: New life for the land, the people / Special to North Hawai'i News / January 2016

8/11/2016

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PictureMakahiki runners greeting the sun. (Photo: Sarah Anderson)
      As the sun sank into the sea on Nov. 18, the constellation of Makali'i (Pleiades) rose in the east and with the new moon on Dec. 11, the ancient season and celebrations of Makahiki began – a time for rejuvenation and connection.
    Two island community events are helping reach back to traditional Makahiki practices, bringing them to life as contemporary guides to wholesome living.
     For the last 15 years Makahiki has been celebrated by students and staff at Kanu o ka
`Āina Public Charter School, growing into a community celebration at Anuenue Playground in Waimea 10 years ago. And for the last two years, a circle island relay run organized by Lanakila Mangauil has brought new life to the traditional procession practiced in the past.
     All travel kapu, or restrictions, are lifted during Makahiki, meaning folks could travel to other districts and villages to socialize and participate in competitive games, an essential part of the celebration. “Everyone dressed in their best. It was like the time when the birds start to show off, you flaunt your feathers. It was a time of expo and everybody was showing off their best. Farmers, fisherman, craftsmen, hula, chants … all of that. You bring the best of the best,” says Mangauil.  

PictureAuhea Puhi, Malia Nae’ole-Takasato, Keala Kahuanui, Nicole Anakalea and Pomai Bertelmann. (Photo, Nancy Erger)
     Cultural practitioner and educator Keala Kahuanui has been an integral part of the Makahiki Moku o Keawe celebration that takes place this Saturday, Jan. 16 beginning at 7 a.m. Leading up to the event, students practice and hone their gaming skills.
     “Different teachers and organizations ask me to come and teach about Makahiki. When you explain that these are games that our kings and queens have played for hundreds of years, that they are more than just rolling a stone or throwing a spear and how these games teach you lessons like focus and intention, they start to take you really seriously,” says Kahuanui.

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     The games, which begin after the close of the ceremony, are a way for students to test their strength and skills. “[It’s] a safe space where they can experiment and try different things, continually surrounded with our Hawaiian values of aloha, kokua, mahalo and mālama,” says Kahuanui. “It's almost a level playing field for non-athletic kids. There's something for everybody,” she adds.

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Over the years, the Makahiki Moku o Keawe has grown in participants and created a legacy. “There’s more participation and those who were learning in elementary are running it now. They graduated, they believe in it. It's part of their tradition, their culture. Parents are wanting to participate too,” says Kahuanui. “The parents and grandparents and the uncles and aunties are cheering on the little ones. And then it flips in the afternoon and the little ones are cheering on the uncles and aunties. We even had a grandmother play last year in the decathlon,” she adds.

PictureLanakila Mangauil with Lono image.
    Makahiki was a time of tribute, when the island chief and his entourage traveled around the island to collect the offerings left at the ahu, stone altars, which marked the boundary of the ahupuaa (land division). 
    “The chiefs would come around and collect their taxes. But really that was an observation. When the chiefs did a circuit of the island, what they were really doing was looking at the productivity of each district. The chiefs would select what they wanted and in a gesture they would give everything back to the people,” says Mangauil. 
    Inspired by the prayer runs of Native American Indian tribes, Mangauil decided to bring the Makahiki procession alive with a run around Hawai'i Island, focusing on the health of the land and the people. “It's about best practices. What did they do back then and how can we apply these things today?” says Mangauil.

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     A ki (statue) was carved with the image of a new Lono (Hawaiian god): Lono Ke Kukini Pule (Lono of the Prayer Run). The four-day run began in Honoka'a in the pre-dawn where participants chanted the sun up before beginning the first leg, which took them to the King Kamehameha statue in Hilo. There they were met by the Royal Order of Kamehameha. A total of 76 miles, day one ended at Nāmakanipaio campground.

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    From day two, which started on the rim of Kilauea crater, the runners touched down in the communities of Na'alehu and Miloli'i, making stops on succeeding days at Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau, Hulihe'e Palace, Pu`ukoholā
Heiau and King Kamehameha statue in Kapa'au.
    Canoes from Miloli'i and Keoua carried the Lono from Miloli'i to Kealakekua Bay. (right)

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    “From there we went all the way up and came down Kohala Mountain Road. By the time we got to the bottom by Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, there were students there and they picked up the statue,” says Mangauil.
    The Lono traveled into Hawaiian Homes escorted by many school groups and out to the highway on Mana Rd, stopping for lunch at Hale Kūhiō , compliments of 'Aha Pūnana Leo Preschool.  “All the parents and the kids were lined up and the first person to come out of Hawaiian Homes passed the Lono to the first little guy and he ran it all through the parking lot. They handed it off and the parents kept it going,” says Mangauil.


'    Out of town and down Mahiki (Mud Lane) they traveled to Waipi'o Valley Lookout, back through Kukuihaele Village and on to Honoka'a. “That last stretch there were probably 200 people. We just ran right through Honoka'a town right back through the Lono banner up at the park.  It was raw, it was real. It inspired the community,” says Mangauil.
Although we can never return to the time of the ancients, they have provided us with all the knowledge and wisdom necessary for the land and the people to thrive. Weaving traditional practices into contemporary life, creates a guide to healthy wholesome living that sustains the natural world we depend on for our survival. 
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