Kīpuka Moʻolelo
Kīpuka Moʻolelo is a storytelling podcast that centers Native Hawaiian voices, histories, and lived experiences through intimate conversations rooted in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and ʻike kūpuna. Each episode creates space for ʻike, memory, and manaʻo to be shared across generations, strengthening cultural connection and contemporary understanding.
Episodes
10 episodes
Ikaakamai Nahuewai
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Ikaakamai Nahuewai explores how Hawaiian language and worldview move through sound—across reggae, contemporary mele, and multimedia storytelling. Raised in Hilo and shaped by both Hawaiian-language education ...
Holeka Inaba
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Holeka Inaba shares how a childhood rooted in Hawaiian language education shaped a lifelong commitment to community leadership, public service, and aloha ʻāina. Raised through Pūnana Leo and Hawaiian-medium s...
Kuʻulei Kanahele
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Kuʻulei Kanahele shares her journey into Hawaiian language, hula, and the deep study of Pele traditions—work shaped as much by archives and translation as by embodied practice. Raised on Oʻahu and drawn into ...
Noʻeau Peralto
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Noʻeau Peralto shares his journey home to ʻāina, moʻolelo, and kuleana. Raised in Waiākea and now living on ancestral lands in Hāmākua, Noʻeau reflects on how ʻike kūpuna, education, and intergenerational rel...
Kamalani Johnson
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Kamalani Johnson reflects on a life shaped by ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, moʻolelo, and aloha ʻāina—from his beginnings in Pūnana Leo and Hawaiian-medium education to his work today as a scholar of Hawaiian language, lit...
Kananinohea Kawaiʻaeʻa-Mākaimoku
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Kananinohea Kawaiʻaeʻa-Mākaimoku reflects on her life as one of the first children raised entirely in the Hawaiian language revitalization movement. From her early years with Pūnana Leo and Ke Kula o Nā...
Kalena Silva
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, revered scholar and cultural practitioner Kalena Silva shares how his grandmother’s Hawaiian language and a childhood encounter with oli set him on a lifelong path of education, chant, and hula. From ea...
Pila Wilson
In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Pila Wilson reflects on his journey from a childhood spent moving across countries to becoming a fierce advocate for Hawaiian language, worldview, and education. Through stories of learning ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, st...