Administration
Spalding Hall 258
2540 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-0980
Fax: (808) 956-0411
Web: manoa.hawaii.edu/hshk
Dean: Dr. Jonathan K. K. Osorio
Centers and Programs
- Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language
- Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
- Ka Papa Loʻi o Kānewai Hawaiian Cultural Garden
- Native Hawaiian Student Services
General Information
Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge comprises four units that offer an integrated curriculum leading to baccalaureate and graduate degrees, certificates, and minors in their respective units.
The mission of the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge is to pursue, perpetuate, research, and revitalize all areas and forms of Hawaiian knowledge, including its language, origins, history, arts, sciences, literature, religion, and education; its law and society; its political, medicinal, and cultural practices; as well as all other forms of knowledge. We recognize the unique status of the Native Hawaiian people and recognize their unique connection to these forms of knowledge by encouraging, supporting, facilitating, and ensuring the incorporation of Native Hawaiians at all levels of the university. We seek to accomplish this mission with a Native Hawaiian perspective that recognizes the holistic aspects of this knowledge, its diversities, and the importance of practical applications. Our mission is to apply this knowledge to provide service and support to the Hawaiian community, as well as extend this knowledge outward from the academy and the community, into the Pacific and other international domains.
Advising
Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language
Spalding 253A, 2540 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-4321
Fax: (808) 956-4599
Email: bell7@hawaii.edu
Web: www.kawaihuelani.org/advisor
Advisor: J. T. Pōhaikealoha Bell
Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
Room 211, 2645 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-0642
Email: lehua.nishimura@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Lehua Nishimura
Academic advisors in the respective departments assist students with clarifying academic and career goals, learning about educational options and campus resources, planning a program of study, understanding academic policies and procedures and degree requirements, and assessing their academic progress toward their degrees.
Ka Papa Loʻi o Kānewai
2645 Dole Street
Kamakakūokalani 211B
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-0546
Fax: (808) 973-0988
Email: kanewai@hawaii.edu
Web: manoa.hawaii.edu/hshk/ka-papa-loi-o-kanewai/
Director: Makahiapo Cashman
Ka Papa Loʻi o Kānewai serves as a Hawaiian cultural and education outreach program, which is organizationally housed in Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at UH Mānoa.
In 1980, several students from UH Mānoa re-discovered the abandoned ʻauwai at Kānewai, located in the ahupuaʻa of Waikīkī. The students restored its flow of water, after which they planted kalo and other native plants in the areas surrounding the loʻi. The group became known as Hoʻokahewai Hoʻoulu ʻĀina based on the philosophy “make the water flow, make the land productive.” Along with the guidance of kūpuna such as Uncle Harry Kūnihi Mitchell and ʻAnakala Eddie Kaanana, the traditional practices have been perpetuated for future generations to experience.
As a cultural resource center, Kānewai focuses its work on perpetuating and preserving Native Hawaiian practices such as wetland kalo cultivation, traditional hale construction and preparation of cultural foods and propagation of Native Hawaiian plants. Activities and services provided on a regular basis at Kānewai include first Saturday and educational tours for UH classes, school, and community groups. These events provide community members, young and old, to engage in mālama ʻāina and learn about indigenous Hawaiian knowledge of natural resource management and food production.
In the early 2000s, Kānewai formed a partnership with Kamehameha Schools ʻĀina ʻUlu program to further the mission of mālama ʻāina. Ka Papa Loʻi O Punaluʻu was opened in the district of Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu to further the education of loʻi and develop the concept of self-subsistence and sound resource management in our island communities.
Ka Papa Loʻi ʻO Kānewai has a 1st Saturday community workday every first Saturday of the month open to everyone. We also have a 3rd Saturday community workday every third Saturday of every month. Email us kanewai@hawaii.edu to let us know you are coming and get directions. Ka Papa Loʻi ʻO Kānewai has been doing 1st Saturdays since 1980.
Native Hawaiian Student Services (NHSS)
Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
2645 Dole Street
Kamakakūokalani 211
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-0587
Queen Liliʻuokalani Center for Student Services
2600 Campus Road
QLCSS 113
Honolulu, HI 96822
Email: nhss@hawaii.edu
Website: manoa.hawaii.edu/nhss
Native Hawaiian Student Services (NHSS) prepares Hawaiian students to build upon a legacy of excellence, with creativity and confidence, in order to fulfill the kuleana of their time, thereby leading Hawaiʻi into a thriving, life affirming, de-occupied future. Our programs are designed to improve institutional access, student-faculty engagement, research, leadership, and success, by fostering Hawaiian identities and cultivating Hawaiian scholarship.
NHSS maintains two student Resource Centers at UH Mānoa. The two spaces provide similar services and programs our students have come to value and enjoy: academic and wellness counseling; math, writing and Hawaiian language tutoring; PC and Mac computer and printing access; Promethean Smart Board technology; launa (socialize, relax) and meeting space; programs and services referrals; academic enrichment, career development and technology workshops; cultural and community engagement opportunities. Our Student Resource Centers continue to serve Native Hawaiians on campus with resources that connect them to one another.
