Native Stories

Micky Huihui is a bandmember for Ookolah the Moc, a Hawaii Roots band. She received her BS in Hawaiian Studies and has worked for Hālau Kū Māna Public Charter School, a kīpuka (safe space) for community and place-based indigenous education and is the Executive Director at Hawaiʻi Peopleʻs Fund in 2016. She firmly believes that social justice in Hawaiʻi BEGINS with indigenous justice, and given Haw...

Daphne Littlebear who is from Tamaya, Santa Ana Pueblo and is a descendant of the Mvskoke, Yuchi and Shawnee Nations, where she resides. Music and dancing provides so much joy and healing to Daphne, she engages in many of the cultural dances of her communities. Daphne is currently completing her doctoral degree at Arizona State University studying social justice education, education policy and Ind...

Noerangi Teave is a tour guide on her home island of Rapa Nui, the owner of Kava Rapa Bar - Rapa Nui’s first Kava Bar, and she is proudly a Rapa Nui woman. Instagram- @kavarapabar #ModoKava #TeEstamosEsperando #IslaDePascua #Kava #KavaPolinesia #KavaBar #KavaRapaNui #HangaRoa #ExperienciasNuevas #ViajeMistico #BrebajeAncestral #RapaNui #ChileBar #BarSinAlcohol

Ahilapalapa Rands (Kanaka Maoli, Fijian,Sāmoan, Cook Island, Pākehā) is an independent curator and artist. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology and a Diploma in Te Reo Māori from Te Wananga o Raukawa in Ōtaki, Aotearoa. Rands is a founding member of New Zealand based art collective D.A.N.C.E. art club alongside Vaimaila Urale, Tuafale Tanoa’i aka Linda T, and...

Out on Sunday! Sunday October 10, 2020 7AM HST Native Stories introduces our KŪPUNA SERIES!!! Yes, yes, yes yall! The kick off kupuna will be our very own Kanaka Maoli and Mana Wahine Dr. Lynette Cruz! Interviewed by Nanea Lo (@eananealo) ʻAnakē Lynette Cruz is truly a Hawaiian Kingdom gem and Aloha ʻĀina Activist Rockstar! Aunty Lynette was born in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, grew up in Oʻahu, and now calls W...

Sunday October 4, 2020 7AM HST Hinatea Colombani from Papara, Tahiti who works on the perpetuation and transmission of Polynesian Culture in Tahiti and abroad. She is the founder of a cultural center called ‘Arioi Cultural Center located in Papara, Tahiti and founder of the Matehaunui ‘Ori Tahiti Dance School. Learn more at www.nativestories.org You can download us on your mobile phones! 📲(Both a...

Ena Manuireva, born in Mangareva (Gambier islands) the smallest archipelago in Ma’ohi Nui (French Polynesia), is a language revitalization researcher at Auckland University of Technology and is currently finishing his PHD at AUT on the subject of language revitalization of the Mangarevan language, where his ancestors are traced to. Ena’s main two fights are nuclear reparations justice from France,...

Sunday September 20, 2020 7AM HST Native Stories with Nanea Lo (@eananealo) and Melissa Mayo Child (@missy_mayy) Welfare System Advocate for our COVID-19 Series Community Work in the Hawaiian Kingdom! Follow them: Ig: @youthpartners808, @hihopes808, @missy_mayy https://www.instagram.com/hihopes808/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hihopes808 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hihopesinitiative/ www.ep...

Sunday September 13, 2020 7AM HST Native Stories with Vehia Wheeler (@_vehia_) introduces Hetereki Huke is from Rapa Nui. He is an architect and territorial Planner, Presidential Advisor on Indigenous Issues in Chile, and the Director of Keho Studio, a territorial planning studio that operates in Rapa Nui. Learn more at www.nativestories.org You can download us on your mobile phones! 📲(Both andro...

Website: www.anavai.org Instagram: none Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FondationAnavai/ Email: contact@anavai.org Biography: I was born and raised in Tahiti, and been even more lucky to study and live abroad for the last 8 years. Moving to unknown places has become my comfort zone. But I am really happy to be back in my Fenua. Today, I am the project leader in Anāvai. Here in French Polyn...

@mooreasurfschool https://www.facebook.com/mooreasurfschool Address: p.k 12, 200 Haumi-afareaitu, French Polynesia Bio: Prisca Amaru is the owner of the first surf school in Mo'orea, French Polynesia. She grew up in Mo'orea and became a professional surfer in the early 2000's in Tahiti, travelling the world participating in competitions, and then coming back to her home island to start the first s...

Sunday August 23, 2020 7AM HST Native Stories with Nanea Lo (@eananealo) introduces for our COVID-19 Series Community Work in the Hawaiian Kingdom. Brandon Makaʻawaʻawa (@hawaiiannational)— Aloha ʻĀina Patriot + Deputy Head of State of the Nation of Hawaiʻi — The oldest Hawaiian Independence Organization in Hawaiʻi in Puʻuhonua o Waimānalo. U.S. Public Law 103-150 The Apology Law https://www.natio...

Sunday August 19, 2020 7AM HST Native Stories introduces cartographer and urban planner Victor Gregor Limon (@cartographer.ph + @plannersofhawaii) where he shares about ways to rethink and remap indigenous spaces and futures, links between Filipino and Kānaka Maoli movements against US imperialism, and how native peoples can be allies to each other. (@plannersofhawaii @anakbayanhawaii ) Learn more...

Mareikura Whakataka-Brightwell is a child of Tahiti Nui and Aotearoa. A freelance photographer, videographer and artist, Mareikura bases his work on indigenous advancement. He is currently living and working in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa as the Communications Lead for the Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust developing innovative digital communication strategies for Māori and beyond. FB: www.facebook.com/rongowhakaata....

Native Stories introduces Hiʻilani Shibata. Who has been sharing the essence of ALOHA with those who work in the visitor industry of Hawaiʻi for over 20 years. An educator, cultural consultant, practitioner of lomilomi. She also is theco-founded Ka Mahina Project, a startup that connects the stories of the moon to people. https://issuu.com/wpcouncil/docs/hi_lunarcal2019_final/1?e=7174896/64565905

Kealani Cook is a History teacher at University of Hawaii - West Oahu. He is the author of Return to Kahiki. He tell us the story of Hawaiʻi relationship to the Spanish-American and Philippine-American War. Hawaiʻi is in many ways not just the start of US overseas empire, but also the last time the US seemed to actually pay any real regard to the will of native peoples when looking at expansion. E...

July 19, 2020 7am HST This episode is a very special one highlighting the one year anniversary of no construction on Maunakea and the resurrection of Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu Maunakea Protect Mauna Kea Native Stories was blessed to have held space with other kiaʻi and allies last year where we recorded the moʻolelo of front line Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) there. Check them out on our app + po...

New to Native Stories is Interviewer @_vehia_ Miri Vidal lives in Papetoai, Mo'orea. She is a Tifaifai-quilt maker (traditional Tahitian quilt maker), an activist for nuclear reparations and justice, a mother and a grandmother. Miri was living on O'ahu, Hawai'i during the 1990's at the height of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (also known as NFIP) era. During this time, France had been co...

We introduce Sanoe Marfil and Noelani Napuelua Patronis from INPEACE Hawaiʻi (@inpeacehawaii)! These mana wāhine talk to us about their work with Kānaka Maoli families, individuals, and people of Hawaiʻi for the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture — INPEACE. Located on the Waiʻanae Coast of Oʻahu a part of our COVID-19 community work in the Hawaiian Kingdom Series! Learn more on the...

We introduce Cortney Gusick of Pāhiki Eco-Caskets (@pahikicaskets)! She informs us on death work, burial rights, advocacy, and education in the Hawaiian Kingdom for our COVID-19 community work series! Tune in for this super interesting and enlightening episode on how we can reconnect to ʻāina. Check out the Funeral Rule here!: https://www.ftc.gov/…/media-…/truth-advertising/funeral-rule

This episode is a part of Native Stories COVID-19 Series highlighting community work within the Hawaiian Kingdom. Kūʻike Kamakea-Ohelo is the son of HULI leader Kalani Ohelo. He shares with us on his work in his community highlighting the health crisis happening in Hawaiʻi and updates with Hūnānāniho (@hunananihouniversity). Learn more at www.nativestories.org You can download us on your mobile ph...

Meala Bishop retired as a community arts specialist role in Ko'olaupoko, O’ahu after spending 23 years in the community, teaching, not just art, but many things impressed upon living in the islands oceans, mountains, and lo'i. From Meala "Art helps create ways of knowing and understanding. It helps us express our internal mo'olelo through external expression. Visual literacy explains through creat...

Wahinehula Kaʻeo is a koʻokua, or birth and postpartum doula from Waiohuli, Maui. A proud graduate of ke Kula Kaiapuni o Maui and a former preschool teacher at Pūnana Leo o Maui. She is a Co-founder and the Development Director of Kalauokekahuli, a nonprofit organization that supports Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by providing culturally-based prenatal, birth, and postpartum educat...

Interviewed by Nanea Lo Delia Parker Ulima has worked over the last decade with non-profit organization, EPIC ‘Ohana, helping to lead the work with child welfare reform, youth engagement and advocacy, public will and policy and communication efforts. She holds a BA in Political Science from Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i, an MA in Pacific Island Studies, a Juris Doctorate from the William S. Ric...

ʻOpio ProgramInterviewed by Kailua High (@kailuahigh) School Early College course in Journalism 201.At Ulupō Heiau (@uluponui) in Kailua Oahu, student from Kailua High School interview Kihei de Silva. He shares his families history in taking care of heiau and land, the mele he wrote for Ulupō and those that take care of it, and his journey to becoming a well known storyteller in Kailua.