He Aupuni Palapala is a collaboration between Bishop Museum & Awaiaulu with staff support from Kamehameha Schools and funding from the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
Awaiaulu has selected the memoirs of John Papa ʻIʻi, originally published as a series of articles in the Hawaiian Langauge newspapers Ke Kumu Aupuni (The Hawaiian Kingdom) in 1839 and then in Ka Nūpepa Kūʻokoʻa (The Independant Newspaper) until his death in 1870 as the source of the current translation training project.
Please find below our presentationwith Puakea Nogelmeier, Kauʻi Sai-Dudoit, Kamuela Yim & Kalei Roberts that was broadcast on Monday, February 21, 2022, 4pm-6pm.
Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood presents a compelling story written by an extraordinary man during a transformative time in Hawai‘i. This book brings into new form the history that Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau wrote for the Hawaiian people in the native language newspapers from 1865 to 1871.
Flux magazine hires Awaiaulu translator and UH language professor Noah Haʻalilio Solomon to oversee the project as the first ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi editor for a local publication in decades.
It’s time to reframe the narrative – casting Hawaiians as power brokers, and not victims, says Hawaiian language expert Puakea Nogelmeier who, with his team at Awaiaulu are finishing translation on this now, and set to publish a book on it in English next spring.
The goal of the multi-year project, He Aupuni Palapala,is to digitize Hawaiian language newspapers, in all repositories, for free online access. With support from the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority and with contributions from Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum and Awaiaulu have partnered to launch a collaborative, multiyear
Please explore out new searchable resource, ‘Ike Lihi: Glimpses in History to uncover insights of Hawaiian history. These are fully translated archives.
In response to a need in the community for access to historical Hawaiian knowledge, Awaiaulu assembled primary source documents, articles from the newspapers, and produced material to understand detail of two events in Hawaiian history. This was called Kīpapa.