Section I
Why are place names (wahi pana) so important in Hawaiian culture?
Place names in Hawaiian culture serve as more than geographic identifiers
This section translates to "work by hand."
What is "Hana Lima"?
This was the last queen of Hawai'i.
Lili'uokalani
Why does this section challenge the idea of Hawai‘i as being limited to the "Big Eight" islands?
The section critiques the colonial reduction of Hawaiʻi to just eight main islands by emphasizing that Hawaiian identity, kuleana (responsibility), and cultural connection extend to other regions such as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Papahānaumokuākea) and even into diaspora communities abroad.
How has tourism affected the relationship between Native Hawaiians and their sacred sites?
Tourism has deeply commodified and desecrated sacred sites in Hawai‘i.
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez also wrote what group facilitation reading?
What is Empire's Mistress?
This was reframed to help address environmental, social, and political issues on the islands.
What is tours?
How is Hawaiian sovereignty portrayed in relation to diaspora and Pacific justice?
Hawaiian sovereignty is shown not as limited to physical territory, but as a living practice that unfolds through legal battles, community organizing, and trans-Pacific activism.
What role does storytelling play in the decolonization of Hawaiian land and identity?
Storytelling (moʻolelo) plays a central role in decolonization by reviving ancestral knowledge and restoring historical memory.
Section II aims to revive this among Hawai'i natives.
What are cultural practices?
This signifies a departure from the usual tourist path.
What is the significance of Papahānaumokuākea in the context of decolonial mapping?
Papahānaumokuākea serves as both a literal and symbolic space of Indigenous reconnection. It represents ancestral knowledge, ecological responsibility, and spiritual grounding far beyond the commercial and political focus of the main islands.
In what ways do traditional Hawaiian systems of orientation differ from Western cartography?
Traditional Hawaiian systems, such as referencing ahupua‘a, orient people through ecological, cultural, and spiritual relationships rather than abstract measurements like miles.
This dominant "economic engine" of Hawai'i has struggled against and alongside the people of Hawai'i.
What is tourism?
A greeting and a way to say goodbye.
What is aloha?
In what ways do the contributors promote the idea of Indigenous remapping?
Contributors promote Indigenous remapping by rejecting Western cartographic limitations and instead highlighting ways of understanding geography based on cultural narratives, voyaging histories, ecological knowledge, and familial ties to land and sea.