I know that we, Hawaiians, introduce ourselves and also recite our genealogy. I just wandered if it was more than just reciting our genealogy. How did we connect to our main aliʻi? We all know that we can chant for quite a while. I am quite sure that we were in tribes. Not sure what a tribe is and from what origin this word comes from. Since, our ancestors were easily able to move from one moku (district) to another moku. Getting back to class, we pretty much did an introduction to haka and what is kapa haka? It is nature or as kumu says it, the environment. We also spent about half and hour (just to kill time), to listen to nature. It is the communication between the land and people. There is many similarities between kapa haka and hula and haʻa. I don't know quite much of haʻa, yet it is being revived and only known to those that chose to learn this way of life. Pretty much hula and kapa haka imitates or replicates how nature lives, or how the environment is. This Polynesian comparison is awesome! I am so glad to be a Hawaiian Studies major and focus on Kumu Kahiki, since not much people have really studied these and compared.
Anyway, I also had history class at 4pm. 4pm!!! So late!!! But this time, I am already tired and not interested. Why would you have class at 4pm?! Oh I also forgot to mention about the times of class. It is weird. So if you have classes in the morning time, say 9am, you actually start at 8:50am and end at 10am. If your class is in the afternoon, then it starts 10 minutes after and end on the hour, start at 4:10 and end at 4pm. So pretty much wasn't into it, so I guess every time when I have this class on Thursdays, its BLAH! So just took notes to stay up and tried to pay attention.
Hello Makana,
ReplyDeleteI used to ask you mom about the place locations of family members in our lineage. What I am trying to figure out, is at what year did family members start leaving the ahupuaa or villages. And due to the nature of Hawaiian Homesteading, that as they received homestead assignments to the various places in Hawaii they left their ahupuaa. Prior to families coming to Waimanalo Homestead, I learned that many lived in Palama around Kaumakapili Church and Kakaako. I have a birth certificate showing that when Uncle Joe was born, circa 1914, they lived a one or two blocks behind the former CompUSA. Living in Ahupuaa may have been 1 or 2 generations prior, as that is about when homes or housing started bringing people to Honolulu for work and away from the various islands. 2nd subject. Can you locate literature on their "Heiau" building? They probably don't call it that, but, I'm curious about the protocol of how they would have brought those stones together. Buy!
I came up with a thesis statement with possible development points. Kawaiahao was created for royalty and Kaumakapili was created for the commoner. One possibility is that they were the last collection point for natives as we transitioned into western American culture. If records of the church were kept, they may have been the first western institution to have seen the transition from the ahupua'a lower honolulu, nuuanu into todays American neighborhoods. To think that we were a part of that. Anyway Later!
ReplyDeletedid you mean start at 4:10 and end at 5? you've got me confused.
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