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He Huewai Ukuhi ʻIke Webinar Series

“He Huewai Ukuhi ‘Ike: A Gourd for Gathering and Distributing Knowledge” was a workshop series created specifically for Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA) and KC members. Four workshops took 48 participants from 23 different community organizations on a digital huaka’i across the islands and several digital databases. Initially, participants were to gather in-person for three days of learning foundational research techniques to better understand the history of the wahi kūpuna they steward. Their introduction into wahi kūpuna research was to begin with ethnohistoric resources, ethnographic interviewing, and huaka’i to visit physical repositories. However, due to the pandemic, the resulting online workshops naturally relied heavily upon online digital repositories of ‘ike Hawaiʻi. These community workshops introduced, and as importantly contextualized, online ‘ike Hawaiʻi, while teaching and referencing source data, archives, Māhele records, and maps.

This virtual workshop series was created to provide interactive engagement and training for various groups and organizations engaged in Wahi Kūpuna Stewardship. Through this series of workshops, participants learned vital introductory techniques to conduct different aspects of place-based research including:

Ethnohistorical Research

Map Research

Māhele Research

Community Ethnography

A unique takeaway from this series was that it took learning and access to online digital repositories beyond the university and into the community, and contextualized the available digital resources within the greater lineage of Hawaiian history.

All [workshops] were extremely useful to our org, because the research process is not one thing, but a variety and they all interweave and connect to one another

Workshop participant

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The huewai is a gourd used specifically for the purpose of gathering wai so that it may be redistributed for uses like drinking. In the process of gathering ʻike, our huewai are the tools that we use to gather, organize, and redistribute this ʻike.

Kua’āina Ulu ‘Auamo

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