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ʻŌlelo noʻeau (wise/clever sayings) such as this are touchstones of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) culture providing multifaceted lessons on social and environmental wellbeing. While many of these sayings are centuries old, the lessons contained within them remain deeply relevant to Kanaka Maoli communities today and beyond, particularly when faced with unprecedented social, environmental and political flux.
Through this Engaged Scholarship project, Steven Manaʻoakamai Johnson is facilitating a pluralistic dialogue centered on ʻike pāpālua as modality for Indigenous-led climate adaptation. In collaboration with community leaders and cultural practitioners in Hawaiʻi, this project explores how to use climate science and models through the Hawaiian worldview expressed in both the academic avenues and cultural causeways.