Awaiaulu, Inc.

Awaiaulu, Inc. Awaiaulu reconnects and bridges knowledge from Hawaiian historical resources to today by training Hawaiian language translators.

08/14/2026

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08/12/2026

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On February 25, 1893, seventeen years after historian Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau’s death, a man named ‘Elia Helekunihi ...
07/27/2026

On February 25, 1893, seventeen years after historian Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau’s death, a man named ‘Elia Helekunihi sat down to write a letter. He was afraid that the history he’d spent a decade preserving would be lost forever once he was gone.

Helekunihi had begun compiling it in 1873, three years before Kamakau died after hearing from John ‘Ī’ĩ, who’d personally walked beside the chiefs Kauikeaouli and Kaʻahumanu, that Kamakau’s published histories were so accurate it was “as though he had been an eye witness.” ‘Ī’ī believed the government should have preserved Kamakau’s work. It never did.
So Helekunihi did it himself. Over ten years, from 1873 to 1883, he joined Kamakau’s published moʻolelo with fragments from ‘Ī’ī and stories passed down from his own father, piecing together a single, more complete account.

Today, that account survives because 3 Hawaiian men refused to let it disappear.

Kamakau’s history and ‘Ĩ’ī’s Nā Hunahuna are both available now, the actual accounts these men worked to save.

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07/26/2026

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Puakea Nogelmeier has spent decades translating Hawaiian-language newspapers back into the light.As Head Translator at A...
07/25/2026

Puakea Nogelmeier has spent decades translating Hawaiian-language newspapers back into the light.

As Head Translator at Awaiaulu, he led the work of bringing John Papa ʻĪʻī’s writings into English for the first time in full.

That work became the introduction to Nā Hunahuna ʻIke Hawaiʻi, where he explains what sets ʻĪʻī apart from other writers of his era.

For Nogelmeier, ʻĪʻī’s value isn’t just how much he wrote, it’s that his years inside the royal court gave him insight no one else could offer.

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07/25/2026

Comment ‘Kekumu, to receive a link to order Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood. Now available as an ebook.

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07/23/2026

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Comment “preorder” and we’ll send you a DM to preorder yours at 10% off.Nā Hunahuna ‘Ike Hawai‘i: Hawaiian Insights serv...
04/14/2026

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Nā Hunahuna ‘Ike Hawai‘i: Hawaiian Insights serves as a comprehensive expansion of the historical records authored by John Papa ‘Ī‘ī. While the 1959 publication Fragments of Hawaiian History presented an edited and reordered selection of his work, this new volume provides the complete series of “Na Hunahuna o ka Moolelo Hawaii” in its original Hawaiian text alongside new translations of three earlier memorial accounts of Kīnaʻu, Victoria Kamāmalu, and Mataio Kekūanāoʻa.

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Renting in Kakaʻako on Oʻahu, Marcellus and Emma Dudoit worked tirelessly to care for their large family, holding on to ...
04/06/2026

Renting in Kakaʻako on Oʻahu, Marcellus and Emma Dudoit worked tirelessly to care for their large family, holding on to the
hope of one day having a home they could truly call their own.

That hope became reality when they were awarded a homestead in Kalamaʻula. For their ʻohana, it meant stability, belonging, and a future rooted in ʻāina.

Emma Kalā Dudoit was deeply moved by what that home meant for her family, especially the comfort of knowing her children would always have a place to return to. Out of that love and deep contentment, she wrote the song “Kalamaʻula,” giving voice to the joy she felt in finally owning their home.

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