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.
Kīpuka Moʻolelo
Kauanoe Kamanā
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In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Kauanoe Kamanā traces her life journey from growing up between Oʻahu and Molokaʻi to becoming a founding force behind the Hawaiian language immersion movement. She reflects on the profound influence of hula, ʻohana, and kūpuna, and how cultural practice became inseparable from her path as an educator and leader.
Known affectionally as Kumu Kamanā by generations of students, she shares the origins of ʻAha Pūnana Leo and Ke Kula ʻO Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu, revealing the courage, sacrifice, and collective labor required to restore Hawaiian language education in the face of legal and institutional barriers. This episode offers a testament to ʻike Hawaiʻi as a living practice—one sustained through relationships, discipline, aloha, and generational responsibility.
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This episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo is a production of ʻŌiwi TV, a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, community voices, and ʻike Hawaiʻi through culturally grounded storytelling.
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