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Weekly Articles
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Hoʻōla Nā Hawaiʻi's First Meeting
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ICW Resource Guide
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Toward the end of each week, one of our organization's officers and/or members will be sharing a blog post on our "Articles" page. These may be student highlights, where they share about their personal experiences at ASU or How To-s, where they share some guidance on things like filing taxes. We encourage you to check it out here.
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Hoʻōla Nā Hawaiʻi will be hosting its first organizational meeting! We will host both an online and an in-person info session the second week of April. In-person will be held at the Student Services building on the Tempe campus on April 11th at 6 pm. Online will be held Wednesday, April 13th at 6 pm via Zoom. Find out more info and how to register here.
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April 4-11 is Indigenous Culture Week at ASU. Our own contribution to this will be a Native Hawaiian resource guide that we will be sharing on our website under our "Content" page and we will be working to get posted on ASUʻs Labriola website. Stay tuned!
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The importance of education for the Hawaiian people
When colonization spread throughout the Hawaiian Islands, much of Hawaiian language, culture, practices, and ways of knowing were lost. Our aliʻi knew at this time that it was important for the Hawaiian people to adjust, to assimilate with our changing environment so that our people and culture could survive the test of time. Many aliʻi understood the importance of education and the literacy of Hawaiʻi and promoted these things, leading to Hawaiʻi to have the highest literacy rate in the world by the mid 1800s, with an estimated 91-95% of Hawaiians able to read and write. We continue to encourage the education of the Hawaiian people as we see our understanding of knowledge from other cultures (including Western cultures) as an important key to providing complex solutions to complex issues in our local communities.
Princess bernice Pauahi Bishop
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Officers of Hoʻōla Nā Hawaiʻi
We are currently working to create a space for Native Hawaiian voices at Arizona State University. We are here to listen to indigenous students and assist them with meeting their needs to be successful in their endeavours here in Arizona. Our duty is not only to listen and respond, but also to promote the ideas, concerns, and success stories of Hawaiian students so that our presence not only remains, but is seen here at Arizona State.