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kolo ēwe ʻŌpio INTERNship RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
AKA’s Kolo Ēwe ʻŌpio Summer Internship is a (5) week internship program focused on developing leadership, technical, and research skills for ʻōiwi youth interns to prepare them for college and careers through connecting interns to the stories, ʻāina, and the mission of Aloha Kuamoʻo ʻĀina. Check out our 2025 Kolo Ēwe Interns’s Final Research Projects Below!
Voices of the Wahi Panaby Halialoha Beamer
The Stories Beneath Our Feet
by Kawena Moniz
Articles
An Aloha ʻĀina Economy—Give, Take, Regenerate
Kamanamaikalani Beamer, The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua et al. (editors), 2020
Beyond services: A process and framework to incorporate cultural, genealogical, place-based, and indigenous relationships in ecosystem service assessments
Pascua, Puaʻala et al. Ecosystem Services, vol. 26, 2017
He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina, Ua Mau Kona Ea – Land is the Chief, Long May She Reign
Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2021 Vol 1
Empowering Indigenous agency through community-driven collaborative management to achieve effective conservation: Hawai‘i as an example
Kawika Winter et al., Pacific Conservation Biology, 2021
Only Twenty Ahupuaʻa Away
Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi, Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez (editors), 2019
Reflections on Sustainability Concepts: Aloha ʻĀina and the circular economy
Kamanamaikalani Beamer et al., Sustainability, 2021
The Moku System: Managing Biocultural Resources for Abundance within Social Ecological Regions in Hawai‘i
Kawika Winter et al., Sustainability, 2018