Kumu Cards

01/28/2026

just said “people who don’t belong here, get to stay here in perpetuity” I bet uncle Russel Means had turn over in his grave after that line…rest his soul…i really hope the world can see and hear the irony.

03/21/2025

Aloha Kakou! I just wanted to take this time for shout out a beautiful family owned Hawaiian business here in moku pele! Was the best machine work I’ve had the good fortune to witness, super clean, fast, and the right tools for leave your aina in top shape for growing mea aina! If You guys would go please follow and show this Hawaiian business some aloha! .construction.llc

11/28/2023

Thankful for those that came before us, and set up our aina and our people for generations to come. Today is truly the Hawaiian independance day. Hawaiians have inalienable interest in land and the waiwai upon it. Timoteo would leave his homelands on this diplomatic mission to sign treaties with the leading world powers, securing the Kumu kanawai for his kingdom.

Sadly during his diplomatic mission he would never make it home, with autopsies revealing an ossified liver, but that’s a different story.

Timoteo haʻalilio was a true aloha aina patriot, and gave his life for his country. Mahalo iā oe!

These things are relevant today, because Hawaiian land title are still valid and many Hawaiians are returning to their kupuna aina.

Its a long journey recovering what was Vehemently tried to be taken for us, we are now looking at a war on the consciousness of kanaka, in hopes we continue to forget who we are, and come from.

I say aʻole.

Till the very last aloha aina!

ʻAʻole aʻe kau i ka pūlima
Maluna o ka pepa o ka ʻenemi
Hoʻohui ʻāina kūʻai hewa
I ka pono sivila aʻo ke kanaka

Do not fix a signature
To the paper of the enemy
With its sin of annexation
And sale of the civil rights of the people

Know your roots!

11/14/2023

Aloha to all the meat cutters, meat wrappers, and fish cutters serving our community. please do what’s right! Your workers need a liveable wage.

FYI kakou Malama market meat and poké department is not being serviced right because their workers on our strike. Interesting when your hourly wage cannot even buy eggs let alone meat and or poké…

Prayers to all the families struggling out there!

11/01/2023

Aloha Ohana! Please share!

10/25/2023

So many people get caught up in the division within themselves, and cause division without themselves. Sometimes it’s our pride, sometimes it’s our hurt feelings that get stuck within ourselves. Whole villages, kingdoms, and nations have fallen, because of pride and ego.

Growing up with bad blood between our own Ohana and lāhui showed me what I’d like to continue and what I’d like to leave behind.

If it’s our pride stopping entire families from coming together, seems such a easy decision to make…especially if the things within our thoughts and emotions don’t make us feel good.

Two opposing forces unyielding is a stalemate, from time immemorial, kanaka have many moʻolelo reflected in our history. From Umi & Kākau, to Kawelo & Kamehameha…to Lono & Kiha…

How can we reach peace outside ourselves, if we dont reconcile things within ourselves.

Ai iā manaʻo

08/11/2023

Wanted to share the historic desertification of land in lahaina...lahaina from what’s been told to me by some elders, is not the true inoa of the township of west Maui. Lahaina translate into the merciless sun. It’s was given the inoa of lahaina when the traditional food forest was burnt down multiple times to make room for the new cash crop of sugar cane.

Lā : sun

hai.nā
vt. Cruel, unmerciful, heartless; to abuse, treat cruelly. Mai hainā wale i ka holoholona, do not abuse the animal. Mea haina, cruel person, tyrant.

Many things have transpired over the years that has removed much of the intentionally planted generational food forest, which has turned lahaina into the driest place in Maui.

The original inoa of that place was Ka malu Ulu o lele...which translates into the shade of the Ulu of lele.

Wanted to share some important moʻolelo of one of the most important places in the Hawaiian Kingdom, prior to western Influx and colonial disparities created within Hawaiian communities. These intentionally planted food systems go back through moʻolelo for multiple generations, aliʻi like Kaululaʻau, Wao, and Piʻilani are Just some of the few to bring indigenous food systems to its heights, through ingenuity, kilo āina, malama aina, and even hydro engineering.

We must ask ourselves, is the rubber stamped short sighted planning of our homelands for profit the best multi generational way to live in an island? Can we do more restore our land for biodiversity rather than just capitalist models? What do indigenous food systems look like, and are they truly indigenous if we attached them to profit driven western monetary systems are we really creating traditional systems? Are we doing the same thing over again expecting different results? Or are we trying to create indigenous models of sharing economics and circular economies?

08/06/2023

It’s interesting what happens when you can get organic super foods in first thing in the morning. Been up early stretching, cleaning up after my kids, instead of cooking breakfast. I’m on this personal experiment to see what happens when I get in super foods consistently, doing one meal a day for dinner, and using intermittent fasting.

Most foods off the shelf, are highly processed, if it’s not organic...your getting glyphosate (round up) in your food!

Nothing will ever replace our natural traditional foods, but in the mean time...many Hawaiians don’t have access to land, food prices are insane here in our homelands...as we move towards sovereignty and creating food systems to feed our people, we have to use all the tools at our disposal to protect and heal ourselves...Aloha

05/06/2023

Hewa!

11/28/2022

Thankful for those that came before us, and set our aina and our people for generations to come. Hawaiians have inalienable interest in land and the waiwai upon it. Timoteo would leave his homelands on this diplomatic mission to sign treaties with the leading world powers, securing the Kumu kanawai for his kingdom.

Sadly during his diplomatic mission he would never make it home, with autopsies revealing an ossified liver, but that’s a different story.

Timoteo haʻalilio was a true aloha aina patriot, gave his life for his country. Mahalo iā oe!

These things are relevant today, because Hawaiian land title are still valid and many Hawaiians are returning to their kupuna aina.

Its a long journey recovering what was Vehemently tried to be taken for us, we are now looking at a war on the consciousness of kanaka, in hopes we continue to forget who we are, and come from.

11/24/2022