KUAMO’OLELO WEB WALA’AU SERIES

 

A 4-part conversation series featuring Kanaka ʻŌiwi thought leaders and change makers working locally and globally to further Aloha ʻĀina efforts across our islands and Island Earth.

Watch the full episodes of the Kuamoʻolelo Web Walaʻau Series featuring our conversations with Dr. Jonathan Osorio, Keola Beamer, Neil Hannahs, Dr. Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, Walter Ritte, Kapuaʻala Sproat, Maile Beamer Loo, Kamuela Meheula, and Uʻilani Tanigawa-Lum

Episode 1: Mālama Kō Aloha

Enjoy this conversation with Kanaka ʻŌiwi scholars about the history of Kuamoʻo and the 1819 battle that took place there. 

This is the first episode of a four-part webinar series featuring discussions with ʻŌiwi scholars about aloha ʻāina, Kuamoʻo, and the importance of moʻolelo. 

Host: Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer (AKA Executive Director) 

Panel: Keola Beamer, Dr. Jonathan Osorio, Neil Hannahs (AKA Board of Directors)

Episode 2: ʻĀina Matters

View this conversation with Kanaka ʻŌiwi scholars about the links between Kuamoʻo and present-day efforts to restore sovereignty.

This is the second episode of a four-part webinar series featuring discussions with ʻŌiwi scholars about aloha ʻāina, Kuamoʻo, and the importance of moʻolelo.

Host: Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer (AKA Executive Director)

Panel: Dr. Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, Uncle Walter Ritte, Kapuaʻala Sproat, JD

Episode 3: Returning to the Source

A conversation with Dr. Kamana Beamer and our esteemed panel of mana wāhine about the transformative power of ʻĀina to heal and empower Kānaka as we restore ʻĀina and each other.

Panel: Maile Beamer Loo, kumu hula, co-founder and Executive Director of the Hula Preservation Society,

Kamuela Meheula, kupa ʻāina of Kona and former Program Director of AKA,

Uʻilani Tanigawa-Lum, JD, hula practitioner and post-JD fellow, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law

Episode 4: Aloha Matters

A conversation with Dr. Kamana Beamer and our esteemed panel of global leaders in social justice advocacy and healing intergenerational trauma. Join us for an intimate conversation about the power of empathy, love, and Mālama Kō Aloha.

Host: Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer (AKA Executive Director)

Panel: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President & CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT),

La quen náay Elizabeth Medicine Crow, President & CEO of the First Alaskans Institute