Awaiaulu

Awaiaulu is dedicated to fostering Hawaiian knowledge today through the training of translators and publication of legacy texts. Fluent students of Hawaiian mentor with experienced translators, bringing historical literature to modern readers in a bilingual format. This develops new resource people, introduces information from these narratives to new audiences, and gives new access to Hawaiian-language texts.

 

Awaiaulu provides access to Hawaiian language texts, empowers the publication process, and provides a setting where the skills and insights necessary for such efforts can be mastered. The goal is to foster Hawaiian mores, values and stories by moving the narratives that illustrate them out of the archives and into the hands of resource people and readers today. A great body of important Hawaiian literature lies beyond the reach of most people, archived for more than a century. The language and the knowledge contained in these works are wonderful resources for the 21st century. 

Awaiaulu
P.O. Box 235896
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96823-3516 

Website: http://www.awaiaulu.org/

Donate:  https://awaiaulu.org/donate/

 

 

Bishop Museum

The Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last direct descendant of King Kamehameha I. Today, the Museum is recognized as the principal museum of the Pacific, housing the world’s largest collection of Hawaiian and Pacific artifacts and natural history specimens. More than 340,000 people visit the Museum each year, including over 40,000 schoolchildren.

Archaeology Collections Manager / Department of Anthropology
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice St.

Honolulu, HI 96818

Website: www.bishopmuseum.org
Donate:  https://www.bishopmuseum.org/membership/

 

 

DL Consulting, Ltd.

DL Consulting has been the primary contractor for OHA’s Papakilo Database since October, 2007. They have worked consistently and patiently with OHA staff in the design, implementation, and customization of features within the database to specifically address OHA’s needs.

 

P.O. Box 12669
Chartwell
Hamilton 3210
New Zealand

Email: contact@veridiansoftware.com

Website: https://veridiansoftware.com

 

 

Hawaiian Mission Houses

The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives (HMH) includes three restored houses, two of which are the oldest houses in Hawai`i, and a research archives which provides a unique glimpse into 19th-century Hawai`i both onsite and online. The extensive education programs expand the site’s relevance and positive impact on the community, and the visitor experience is further enhanced by an orientation center and a gift shop. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1972 with re-accreditation earned in 2010. HMH is the business name of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, a not-for-profit organization and genealogical society founded in 1852, and was formerly known as Mission Houses Museum.

 

Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site

553 S. King St.

Honolulu, HI 96813

 

Website: https://www.missionhouses.org

Donate:  https://4agc.com/donation_pages/d65b0144-6f20-40f1-a6a3-3b6ee2b17f7a

 

 

Hawai'i State Archives

The mission of the Hawai'i State Archives is to ensure open government by preserving and making accessible the historic records of state government and to partner with state agencies to manage their records.

Hawaii State Archives 
364 S. King Street 
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 

Website: https://ags.hawaii.gov/archives/

Hawaiian Mission Houses
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives (HMH), an active site for Hawaii’s history since 1820, is a National Historic Landmark (listed in 1965) and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (last re-accredited in 2010). HMH graces a one-acre site in the Historic Capital district in downtown Honolulu. HMH preserves Hawaiʻi’s oldest Western-style house, the 1821 Mission House, as well as the 1831 Chamberlain House, the 1841 Bedroom Annex, a cemetery, a collections storage vault, a gift shop, and multi-purpose space. The library, which holds both English and Hawaiian archival material, welcomes researchers on site as well as from around the globe through the digital collection. A coral-and-grass performance arena was added in 2011, hosting theater and mele (music) performances throughout the year, and a reconstructed hale pili, built using cultural practitioner leadership and designed with sources from journals in the HMH archives, was added in 2021.  HMH offers school field trips, tours, historical theater performances and has been awarded over 15 Po‘okela Awards for Excellence in theatrical performance, writing, and direction. The HMH historical archive holds over 80,000 digital pieces and is home to one of the largest collections of Hawaiian language books in the world.

 

Hawaiian Mission Houses

553 S. King Street  

Honolulu, HI 96813

 

Website: https://www.missionhouses.org

Donate: https://4agc.com/donation_pages/d65b0144-6f20-40f1-a6a3-3b6ee2b17f7a

 

 

Hula Preservation Society
Established in 2000, the non-profit Hula Preservation Society is committed to preserving and sharing the unique spirits, authentic voices, and historical record of our esteemed elders via digital technologies, and making that treasury available to the Hawaiian people, hula practitioners, and students around the world.

HPS conducts one-on-one oral histories and presents public programs with beloved hula elders. As of 2020, we have worked with more than 90 elders and carried out nearly 100 public programs on five islands, resulting in over 1,200 hours of irreplaceable documentation. Sessions are recorded on digital video, capturing nuanced voices and gestures as these experts share cultural gems, distinctive insights, and words of wisdom through hula. We also digitize and catalogue historic materials given to HPS by the elders themselves.

Combined, these resources represent a significant digital cultural library to be shared through traditional media avenues, and innovative means such as this website, which receives over 76,000 hits from around the world each month. As the only 501(c)3 dedicated to this work, such online activity is validation that today’s hula community is truly global and that HPS’ work builds and maintains connections to Hawai`i, the hula piko, or source of hula.

Hula Preservation Society

PO Box 6274

Kaneʻohe, HI 96744

Archive Inquiries: archive@hulapreservation.org
Website: http://www.hulapreservation.org

 

Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation

The Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation (IHLRT) is a collaborative research unit established to provide access and research capacity to the extensive archive of Hawaiian language materials.  IHLRT allows all fields of scholarship in the University, for government agencies, nonprofit institutions, business entities and the community to study the Hawaiian language materials of the 19th and early 20th centuries. While facilitating research, this new entity will provide professional training and innovative learning experiences to a new generation of translation leaders and scholars in all fields related to Hawaiʻi, its people and its history.

 

Mission Statement: To generate access to the resources of the Hawaiian language repository for all fields of study through research, translation and the training of a new cadre of capable resource people.

 

Website:  https://seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/institute-of-hawaiian-language-research-and-translation/

Donate: https://www.uhfoundation.org/give/giving-opportunity/sea-grant-research-improves-quality-life

 

 

Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law

Ka Huli Ao was established in 2005 at the Law School through a Native Hawaiian Education Act grant. Ka Huli Ao focuses on education, research and scholarship, community outreach, and the preservation of invaluable historical, legal, traditional, and customary materials. It also offers new courses and supports Native Hawaiian and other law students as they pursue legal careers and leadership roles.

 

Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law

2515 Dole Street

Honolulu, HI, 96822-2350

Website:  http://blog.hawaii.edu/kahuliao/

Donate: http://blog.hawaii.edu/kahuliao/donate/

 

 

Kauaʻi Historical Society

The Kauai Historical Society (KHS) was founded on May 7, 1914, by a small group of people dedicated to the preservation of Kauai County history.

Our mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate the oral, written and pictorial history of Kauai County; to protect and preserve historic sites, and to educate ourselves and the public about the history and cultures of Kauai and Niihau. 

 

Kauaʻi Historical Society

4396 Rice St. #101

Lihue, HI 96766

Website:  https://kauaihistoricalsociety.org

Donate:  https://kauaihistoricalsociety.org/donate/

 

 

Kawaiahaʻo Church

Kawaiaha’o Church was established on April 22, 1820 by members of the the Hawaiian Mission from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Originally known as the “Mission Church of Honolulu”, it became known as Kawaiaha’o Church when it evolved into a major parish church in 1840.

 

The name “Kawaiahaʻo” literally translates as “the water of Haʻo” and comes from the name of a sacred spring located on the church grounds as well as a moʻolelo (story) about the location.

 

Kawaiaha’o Church is the oldest church on Oʻahu and the second oldest church in Hawaiʻi. The lands were gifted to the Hawaiian mission by Kuhina Nui (Queen-Regent) Kaʻahumanu, one of Hawaii’s first Christian converts, and King Kamehameha III.

 

Kawaiahaʻo Church

957 Punchbowl St.

Honolulu, HI 96813

 

Website:  https://kawaiahaochurch.com

Donate:  https://kawaiahaochurch.com/donate-1

 

Kumu Pono Associates

Kepa Maly and Onaona Pomroy Maly have worked on ethnographic studies in historic preservation for over thirty years (Kumu Pono Associates LLC, since 1995). Living away from O'ahu, research was always an expensive undertaking with travel from outer islands, and other expenses to just get to the archival collections. Around the year 2000, they began exploring the possibility of digitizing key collections of historical resource materials.

Since then, they have independently or in partnership, digitize and re-indexed the entire Māhele 'Āina, Boundary Commission Proceedings, Royal Patent Grants, the Harvard Collection of ABCFM Hawai'i records, Register Maps, and portions of the Bureau of Conveyances Library Collection, along with portions of other documentary resources. Kumu Pono Associates LLC has also partner with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools and Ulukau in sharing digital collections and ethnographic studies.

While digitizing records does not directly equal preservation of those records, it does lead to ease of access, and lightens the impact of handling sensitive records.

Website: http://www.kumupono.com/

 

Ulukau - The Hawaiian Electronic Library

Ulukau: In the same way that unexplained supernatural interpretive powers can be divinely given to a person, so knowledge and understanding can come to the person who makes the effort to read the language and words of this electronic library.

What is Ulukau? Ulukau is a digital online library for mostly Hawaiian language materials, though some Hawai‘i related materials in English can also be found on it. You will find searchable Hawaiian language dictionaries, online newspapers, books, the Hawaiian Bible, genealogy, māhele and other place name resources and much more.

Ulukau was founded as the Hawaiian Electronic Library in 2005. It involves dozens of partners, and is spearheaded by these two organizations: Hale Kuamo'o of Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at UH Hilo and Ka Waihona Puke 'Ōiwi Native Hawaiian Library at ALU LIKE.

Email: ulukau@hawaii.edu
Website: http://www.ulukau.org/

 

ʻUluʻulu – The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi

ʻUluʻulu is Hawaiʻi's official state archive for moving images.  Located on the University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu campus, the archive is dedicated to the care, preservation, and digitization of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Hawaiʻi.

 

UHWO Library First Floor

91-1001 Farrington Highway

Kapolei, HI 96707

Email: uluulu@hawaii.edu

 

Website: http://uluulu.hawaii.edu

Donate” http://uluulu.hawaii.edu/get-involved#anc-donate

 

 

Washington Place Foundation

Washington Place Foundation was established to perpetuate the Hawaiian language, music and culture following Queen Liliʻuokalani's vision.  The goal of Washington Place foundation is the preservation of the National Historic Landmark Washington Place so that we may provide a place of learning and a sanctuary of healing for the people of, and visitors to, Hawai`i.

 

Washington Place Foundation

P.O.  Box 873

Honolulu, Hawai’i  96808

 

Website: http://www.washingtonplacefoundation.org

Donate: https://secure.usaepay.com/pay/3nkt6jb47fhhnh833/1THZmEan