Nā Pū’ali Kia’i and Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

10/15/2026

Mahalo for this. The Kingdom’s education story is one every keiki should know. In 1840 Kauikeaouli made schooling free and required for children ages four to fourteen, 77 years before the United States did. Literacy reached about 90 percent within a generation. One gentle note: today’s statewide rankings put Hawaiʻi near the middle, and student debt per person here is below the national average. The deeper harm was the 1896 English-only law, which kept ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi out of the schools for 90 years. That truth makes the case for ea on its own. E hoʻomau.

10/15/2026

Thursday, October 15, 2026 — Book VI Chapter 16: Lokomaikaʻi

Aloha kākou —
Today’s chapter is Book VI, Chapter 16: Lokomaikaʻi.
Lokomaikaʻi is generosity, kindness, and a benevolent heart. It is the spirit that gives without always calculating what will be returned. In community work, this matters, because people often arrive carrying pain, confusion, anger, grief, or hunger for knowledge.
Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi can practice lokomaikaʻi by sharing time, knowledge, food, support, encouragement, and patience. A generous organization does not hoard ʻike to feel superior. It shares what is appropriate, protects what is sacred, and teaches in a way that strengthens others.
Generosity must also be wise. Lokomaikaʻi does not mean allowing harm, disorder, or disrespect. It means offering goodness with boundaries, compassion with discernment, and help without losing pono.

When people meet Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi, they should feel that the guard is not only organized, but kind. Not only disciplined, but human.
Lokomaikaʻi is generosity with a heart anchored in pono.

— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi
Learn more: https://ke-aupuni-hawaii.org

10/14/2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 — Book VI Chapter 15: Haʻahaʻa

Aloha kākou —
Today’s chapter is Book VI, Chapter 15: Haʻahaʻa.
Haʻahaʻa means humility. It is essential for guardianship because service without humility becomes performance. Leadership without humility becomes control. Cultural knowledge without humility becomes a weapon.
No one knows everything. No one carries every genealogy, every chant, every protocol, every document, every place name, every land story, or every family memory. Humility keeps the learner open and the leader grounded.
Haʻahaʻa does not mean thinking poorly of oneself. It means understanding that the work is bigger than oneself. It means honoring kūpuna, listening before speaking, asking before assuming, and correcting mistakes without shame.
People can feel when someone is serving from ego. They can also feel when someone is serving from aloha. The difference matters.
Haʻahaʻa keeps the heart low enough to hear the kūpuna.
— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi
Learn more: https://ke-aupuni-hawaii.org

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 — Book VI Chapter 14: Laulima

Aloha kākou —
Today’s chapter is Book VI, Chapter 14: Laulima.
Laulima means many hands working together. No single person can carry the whole history, the whole mission, or the whole burden of restoration.
Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi must be built through laulima. Some members will be strong in ceremony. Some in administration. Some in research. Some in community outreach. Some in teaching. Some in music, oli, hula, protocol, logistics, design, or youth mentorship. Each hand matters.
Laulima also protects against ego. When everyone understands that the work belongs to many hands, no one person has to pretend to be everything.
The future of Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi cannot be carried by isolated individuals. It requires coordinated hearts, disciplined hands, and a willingness to labor together without needing all the credit.
Many hands can lift what one hand cannot.
— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi
Learn more: https://ke-aupuni-hawaii.org

10/12/2026

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10/12/2026

Monday, October 12, 2026 — Book VI Chapter 13: Kuleana

Aloha kākou —
Today’s chapter is Book VI, Chapter 13: Kuleana.
Kuleana is responsibility, privilege, duty, and relationship. It is not a burden forced upon the unwilling. It is a sacred assignment accepted by those who understand that rights and responsibilities belong together.
Every member of Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi carries kuleana. Leaders carry kuleana to guide with humility. Officers carry kuleana to serve with accountability. Members carry kuleana to learn, train, support, and represent the organization with dignity. The whole guard carries kuleana to the lāhui.
Kuleana also means knowing one’s place. Not everyone leads at the same time. Not everyone speaks for the whole. Discipline protects the organization from confusion, and humility protects the heart from pride.
The person who understands kuleana does not ask first, “What title do I get?” They ask, “What work must be done, and how can I serve it well?”
Kuleana is not about status. Kuleana is about responsibility accepted with pono.
— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi
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10/12/2026

10/11/2026

Sunday, October 11, 2026 — Book VI Chapter 12: Mālama ʻĀina

Aloha kākou —
Today’s chapter is Book VI, Chapter 12: Mālama ʻĀina.
Mālama means to care for and protect. ʻĀina means that which feeds. Together, mālama ʻāina teaches that land is not an object beneath the people. ʻĀina is a relationship that sustains life, culture, genealogy, and spirit.
Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi cannot speak of sovereignty without speaking of ʻāina. The Kingdom was not only a flag and a palace. It was an archipelago of living lands, waters, fisheries, forests, loʻi, heiau, trails, homes, burial places, and communities.
To honor the Kingdom is to honor the ʻāina that made the Kingdom possible.
The land is not a stage for identity. The land is the elder.
— Nā Pūʻali Kiaʻi & Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi
Learn more: https://ke-aupuni-hawaii.org