Ka Moʻolelo o Ka Nuha: the safety zone at the Kamehameha Schools didn’t happen by accident

Abstract

Written in a style inspired by Hawaiian language newspapers of the 19th century, this moʻolelo (history) seeks to tell the story of Hawaiian patriotism at the Kamehameha Schools, a school for Indigenous children founded and funded by a princess of the Hawaiian Kingdom. With Raphael Lemkin’s phases of genocide in our pocket and Lomawaima and McCarty’s Safety Zone Theory as our guide, readers will journey through the school’s correspondence, teacher meeting minutes, and Hawaiian language newspapers documenting the celebration of the holiday Lā Kūʻokoʻa, the events surrounding the 1895 Kaua Kūloko, and the experiences of the first Indigenous teacher hired by the school.

Care, not incarceration: exploring the carcerality of fisheries enforcement and potential decolonial futures in Hawaiʻi

“…Stemming from this ontology, this study uses moʻolelo (history, stories) as the grounding epistemology and mode of analysis to study contemporary stories of fisheries governance and enforcement in Hawaiʻi (Meyer, 2016;Watson, 2020aWatson, , 2020b. To discern the nature of carcerality in fisheries enforcement in Hawaiʻi, this paper focuses on two types of stories within contemporary Hawaiʻi fisheries.…”