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>> FOR GENERATIONS HAWAIIAS HAVE WORKED TO REVITALIZE D STRENGTHENING THEIR LANGUA, COME AND IDENTITY.

JOIN KAKOU: HAWAI'I'S TOWNL FOR DISCUSSION WITH KANAKAI INNOVATORS.

JOIN US FOR KAKOU, A NEW WY FORWARD STARTING NOW.

>> Yunji: ALOHA AND WELCOMO KAKOU: HAWAI'I'S TOWN HALLE FROM THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG MULTI-MEDIA STUDI.

I'M YUNJI DE NIES.

FOUR DECADES AGO, NATIVE HAWAIIANS WERE FIGHTING TO RECLAIM A LANGUAGE AND CULE THAT HAD BEEN PUSHED TO THE BRINK.

AT THE TIME, FEWER N 50 CHILDREN IN HAWAI'I SPOE 'OLELO HAWAI'I.

TODAY, MORE THAN 4,000 STUS LEARN AND SPEAK HAWAIIAN EH DAY, AND NEARLY 20,000 PEOE HAVE SOME FLUENCY IN THE LANGUAGE.

IT IS ONE OF THE CLEAREST SIGNS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CULTURAL RESURGENCE-ONE THAT NOW RES INTO EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, SCIENCE AND THE .

BUT CULTURAL RESURGENCE HAT ERASED LONGSTANDING DISPAR.

NATIVE HAWAIIANS STILL LIVE ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF YEARS THAN HAWAI'I RESIDENTS OVEL AND REMAIN DISPROPORTIONATY IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINAL JE SYSTEM.

AND TODAY, 53% OF E HAWAIIANS LIVE OUTSIDE HAW- MORE LIVING ABROAD THAN HEN THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.

WE SPOKE WITH SEVERAL NATIE HAWAIIANS LIVING ON THE CONTINENT ABOUT WHY THEY L.

>> I LIVED ON OAHU UNTIL IS SEVEN YEARS OLD.

MY FAMILYI ARE FROM AIEA.

MY PARENTS O DECIDE TO LEAVE BECAUSE THY COULDN'T GET HOUSING BECAUE JOB SALARIES WERE TOO LOW.

THEY WERE WORKING TWO TO TE JOBS EACH JUST TO MAKE ENDS MEET, AND THEY WANTED A BER LIFE FOR US.

MY SON THANKED ME BECAUSE E REALIZES IT WAS A SACRIFICO LEAVE HAWAII AND HE REALIZS WHAT OPPORTUNITIES IT'S GIO HIM, THAT HAD WE STAYED BA, THINGS PROBABLY COULD HAVEE REALLY SOUTH FOR HIM.

>> I LEFT THE ISLAND OF MAN THE BEGINNING OF LIKE THE R TWO 2004, I WANT TO SAY ARD THERE, AND IT WAS JUST OUTF SORT OF THE BASIC CURIOSITF WHERE I COULD GO WITH MY AT CAREER.

MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITIES HAD ALREADY E KIND OF COME AND GONE FOR E ISLAND OF MAUI.

BEFORE I GRADUATED FROM UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, MANOI APPLIED TO ALL OF THE BIG H COMPANIES, SO APPLE, MICRO, AMAZON, YOU NAME IT, BECAUI WANTED TO BE AT A BIG TECH COMPANY WHERE INNOVATION WS HAPPENING.

AND I DID NOT SE THAT AT THAT TIME IN HAWAIR A LOT OF US, IS THAT I DIDT SEE ANY TECH INNOVATION THS HAPPENING THAT I WANTED TOK AT, AND I JUST DIDN'T WANTO WORK IN TOURISM AS A HAWAI.

>> ALL FOUR STILL FEEL DEEY CONNECTED TO HAWAII - WHETR THROUGH HULA, FEATHER WORK, PADDLING, OR JUST GATHERINH OTHERS IN THE DIASPORA.

>> Yunji: SO, WHAT DOES PROGRESS LOOK LIKE FOR NATE HAWAIIANS?

KAKOU MEAN NS ALL OF US.

IS THERE NO HAWAI'I WITHOUT HAWAIIANS.

WE EXPLORE A NEW WAY FORWAS WE CONFRONT THE CHALLENGEST REMAIN AND CONSIDER WHAT CS NEXT.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

E-MAIL OR CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS.

WE'RE STREAMING LIVE AT PBS HA.org AND OUR YouTube PAGE.

WE HAVE EDUCATORS, ADVOCAT, HEALTHCARE ENTREPRENEURS AN ATTORNEY.

HA'ALILIO SOLOMON, AN ASSIT PROFESSOR AT U.H.

MANOA.

WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT HAWAIIN CULTURAL RENAISSANCE AS A SUCCESS STORY.

WHAT HAS CHANGED AND WHAT HASN'T?

>> I GOT TO TALK FIRST.

[LAUGHTER] WE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS , 50 YEARS OF REVIT REVITALIR LANGUAGE.

I THINK WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT 50 YEARS, AND WHAT'S GOING TOE IMPORTANT DURING THAT PHASS IDEOLOGICAL COHESION.

THERE'S A LOT OF LITERATURT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T.

I THINK WE NEED TO -- WE BG ALL OF US FROM HAWAI'I ALLE WAY TO NIIHAU, HAVE AGREEMN WHAT THE FUTURE OF HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE LOOKS LIKE, SOUNDS LIKE.

BECAUSE WE COULD REALLY BET FROM THOSE REALLY KIND OF UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS ABT CONFLICT IDEAL OLES AND HOE CAN ACHIEVE MORE COHESION O HELP US, GIVE US MORE MOME.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR TH.

KEPA BARRETT KEYES GREW UPN HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IMMEMBERD WORKS IN 'AINA BASED LEARN.

WHAT POSSIBLEBILITIES DO YE TODAY THAT WERE NOT THERE A GENERATION OR TWO AGO?

>> SOMETHING THAT I THINK T A LOT IS KUPUNA KAUAHI.

SHE CAME TO MAUI EVERY WEE.

SHE WAS BORN AT AT TIME WHN HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE WAS DISCOURAGED.

SHE TALKED A LOT ABOUT PAIN WHILE SHE GREW UP NOT BEINE TO SPEAK 'OLELO HAWAI'I.

FOR MY SISTER AND I, WE DIT UNDER THAT.

BUT WE NOW UNDER PAIN HAS A PURPOSE.

COME OF THE THINGS I'M SURA LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SEEN, RECENTLY "CHIEF OF WAR" WAS FEATURED.

'OLELO HAWAI'I HAS MOMENTUN THE ENTERTAINMENT SPACE ASL AS EDUCATION SPACE.

MORE THAN ANYTHING, I SEE O HAWAI'I BECOMING NORMALIZE.

OUTSIDE OF EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT, WE SEE OURSS GETTING INTO THE SPACES THE DIDN'T NECESSARILY SEE EXAS LIKE US GROWING UP.

IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HA'ALILIO WAS TALKING ABOUE FIRST COHORT OF KAIPUNI KIS THAT GRADUATED FROM '99, W, 45 45 TODAY.

WE'RE STILL A PRETTY YOUNG COHORT.

A LOT OF KUPUNA DIDN'T HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO PASS ON 'OLO HAWAI'I THE WAY THAT THEY D TO.

WE HAVE A NEW COHORT OF SPS THAT ARE ENTERING INTO DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIO.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR TH.

PAIGE OKAMURA SUPPORTS COMY LED INITIATIVES AND HOSTS HAWAI'I KULALA IWI.

>> HAWAIIAN COMMUNITIES ARE GROWING IN SO MANY DIFFERET WAYS.

FOR ME IN THE WORK THAT I I SEE THEM GROWING THEIR CAPY WITHIN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, THEIR NONPROFITS, THEIR COMMUNITIES.

I THINK ALSO AS MUCH AS WET LIKE TO DWELL ON NEGATIVE THINGS, I THINK THE RECENTU KNOW, FLOOD AND DISASTERS T THE COMMUNITIES HAVE SUFFED SHOW EASY THE STRENGTH OF R COMMUNITY.

I THINK OUR COMMUNITIES HAE ALWAYS BEEN STRONG, BUT I K THE WAYS THAT THEY HAVE FOD THEIR PATHS AND THEIR STRES HAVE BEEN JUST A VARIETY.

LIKE, YOU KNOW, ENDLESS, SO THEY'RE GROWING EVEN IF YOY NOT SEE IT.

YOU MIGHT NOT SEE IT ON TVT THEY'RE DOING REALLY GREAT.

AND I THINK IT SHOWS IN ALE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE.

>> Yunji: I WANT TO TURN TO OLIN LAGON, WHOSE WORK CONS COMMUNITY NEEDS.

I WAS REALLY STRUCK BY THE SPEAKER YOU HEARD SAYING SD TO LEAVE HAWAI'I TO GET THE TECH OPPORTUNITIES.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT HAWAI'I'S ECONOMY, WHERE DO YOU SEE E GREATEST OPPORTUNITY FOR NE HAWAIIANS?

>> SHOUT-OUT TO SAGE.

SHE'S TALENTED.

I'M GLAD SHE CAME ON THIS .

I HAVE SO MUCH HOPE BECAUSE NEXT GENERATION IS GOING TK AT OWNERSHIP.

I REALLY SEE -- I GREW UP R A LABOR OF MODEL.

MY ENTIRE FAMILY WERE LABOS ON OUR HOME LANDS.

NEXT GENERATION TO OWN 'AI, OWN OUR INDUSTRIES AND COME AND FINANCE SYSTEM.

THERES A LOT OF HOPE THEREI SEE A LOT OF PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

RICK BARBOZA COFOUNDED A BUSINESS ROOTED IN GROWINGD CONSERVING NATIVE HAWAIIAN PLANTS.

RICK, WHAT DOES YOUR EXPERE TAUGHT YOU ABOUT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY WHILE CARRYINGR THE LAND?

>> IT KIND OF CAME -- THERO MUCH ROOM FOR GROWTH.

NOT TO MAKE A PUN OUT OF IT IT SEEMS KIND OF IRONIC THT WE'RE GROWING HAWAIIAN PLAN HAWAI'I, BUT HAWAI'I IS COMPLETELY INUNDATED WITH NONNATIVE PLANTS.

IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN OUR CULTURAL INTEGRITY, WE HAVO SURROUND OURSELVES WITH OUR PLANTS.

AND THAT HELP DEVELOP OUR CULTURE.

BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH ARO RECLAIM 'AINA, OUR COMPANYG LAND IS TRANSFORMING LAND K TO 'AINA, AND SO WE ALWAYSK AT COMPETITION AS A GOOD T. WE ALWAYS TRY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GROW NATIVE PLAN, EVEN IF IT IS COMPETITION H US.

BUT THERE'S SO MUCH ROOM FR GROWTH.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

I WANT TO TURN TO MALIA AKUTAGAWA, WHO IS AN ATTORY AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OFW IN HAWAIIAN STUDIES.

JOINING US FROM MOLOKAI VIA ZOOM.

FROM YOUR WORK WITH COMMUN, WHERE DO HAWAIIANS HAVE A MEANINGFUL VOICE IF SHAPING THEIR FUTURE AND WHERE DO U SEE THAT VOICE STILL MISSI?

>> FOR ME, I DO A LOT OF 'A HOI.

ON MOLOKAI, WITH THE MOLOKI HERITAGE TRUST, WE STAND TO ACQUIRE A THIRD OF OUR ISL, WHICH IS 56,000 ACRES.

AND WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO THT ACQUISITION, SO TO ME, THAN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR KA TO HAVE MORE COALER COAL -.

IT IS A WAY OF LOOKING AT .

ABLE TO HAVE MORE CHOICES W WE MANAGE OUR 'AINA AND GON OUR PEOPLE.

THE OTHER PART OF YOUR QUEN WAS WHAT DO YOU THINK WE HE LOST.

>> Yunji: WHAT'S STILL MISSING?

>> WHAT'S STILL MISSING.

ON MOLOKAI SPECIFICALLY, YU KNOW, OUR ECONOMY.

WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

WE DON'T RELY ON TOURISM.

OUR NUMBER ONE INDUSTRY IS AGRICULTURE, SO I THINK WEE EXPERIENCE ON THE ISLAND AT OF PEOPLE LEAVING.

OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING AD MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY COME.

SO I THINK FOR BECAUSE I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, IN WAIANAE YOU'RE G TO SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SE.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME OE DRUGS, SOME OF THE POVERTYE OF THE MOST, YOU KNOW, THET I DON'T KNOW INCARCERATION.

YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO SEE SF THE MOST RESOURCEFUL PEOPL, MOST BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS, MOT GENEROUS, KIND PEOPLE.

SO WHAT I WISH PEOPLE KNEWD WHICH IS MY PLATFORM IS TOT NORMALIZING THAT HAWAIIANS YOU'RE GREAT AND YOU HAVE A PURPOSE IN THIS 'AINA.

FOR SO LONG, IT WAS SHAME E HAWAIIAN.

AND TRYING TO FLIP THE SCRT AND SAY IT'S NOT.

IT'S EXACT OPPOSITE.

WHETHER YOU ARE -- WE ALL D ABOUT, WHERE YOU WENT SCHO?

WHETHER YOU'RE PUBLIC SCHOL HAWAIIAN, WE'RE ALL HAWAII.

THAT IS RICHNESS IN ITSELF.

NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME F, THERE IS NO STANDARD TO BE HAWAIIAN.

TO BE HAWAIIAN IS TO BE HAWAIIAN.

TO FIND, LIKE LAN LAN LANDD CONNECTION.

FOLLOW THAT LINAGE AND GO .

YOU'RE GOING TO FIND RICHNS AND BE PROUD OF THAT BECAUE NEED TO BE PROUD OF OUR KU.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

HI'IAKA KAIMILOA AIPIA-WHIE EAGLE HI IS A STUDENT.

WHEN YOU IMAGINE YOUR FUTU, WHAT DO YOU HOPE YOU'LL BEE TO BUILD HERE IN HAWAI'I?

>> FIRST, I WANT TO JUST TH UPON EVERYONE HERE TONIGHT LISTENING TO EVERY ELSE'S INTRODUCTIONS I HOPE YOU AL KNOW ALL OF YOUR IS JOBS TT YOU'VE TAKEN ON IS GIVEN MY GENERATION SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES.

GOING TO HAWAIIAN PUBLIC CR SCHOOL, I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITIES TO COMMUNICAD WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT COMY PARTNERS AND ALL OF YOUR GS STORIES AND MANAO.

THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE SHN OUR HAWAIIAN CHARTER SCHOO, AND THAT I'M SO EXCITED TOE ABLE TO BE HERE AND HOPEFUY INSPIRE MORE MAKUA TO SENDR KEIKI TO HAWAIIAN CHARTER SCHOOLS.

FOR MY GENERATION TO GO OUD ONCE YOU PUKAKULA, GO ON TO BROADER STUDIES.

ALL THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND TR WAY AWAY FROM HAWAII, TO CE HOME AND SHARE YOUR IKE THU GATHERED WITH MY GENERATIO.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR TH.

THIS IDEA OF COMING HOME IT WE ASKED A LOT OF THE FOLKN THE CONTINENT ABOUT.

I WANT TO BRING BACK THOSE VOICES.

WE HEARD WHY FOUR HAWAIIANT HAWAI'I.

IT CAN COME WITH A DEEPLY PERSONAL COST.

>> I MOVED TO A WHITE SUBUO I WAS LIKE ONE OF THREE BRN KIDS IN MY SCHOOL.

SO IT WS VERY, VERY ISOLATING, AND I HAD SO MUCH OF A SEVERANCEM AINA, FROM, FROM MY LINEAG, FROM WHO I WAS, FROM MY OWN IDENTITY.

AND FOR MOST OF Y LIFE, I CARRIED A DEEP SHAD DID NOT FEEL HAWAIIAN ENOU, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT A F KANAKA OFF ISLAND DEAL WIT, AND GRIEF.

>> A LOT OF US HAVE MOVED Y FOR CAREER GROWTH, FOR SOCL ECONOMIC, YOU KNOW, BENEFI, RIGHT?

BEING ABLE TO BE EXD GLOBALLY, THE EASIER TO TRL OTHER PLACES.

THE THE OTHEE OF THE COIN IS THAT YOU DOE A LOT OF THE CULTURE, RIGH?

I THINK AS A HAWAIIAN, AS N INDIGENOUS PERSON, YOU ALWS WILL BE ACHING.

IT'S IT'S A LIKE ANY HAWAIIAN LOVE SON.

WE'RE LONGING FOR OUR LOVE.

WE'RE LONGING.

WE'RE LONGIR OUR LAND.

WE'RE LONGING, R?

>> I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT I W UP MY ENTIRE LIFE IN HAWAI, ASIDE FROM COLLEGE AND MILY TRAINING.

I'M SO GRATEFUL R THAT BECAUSE IT'S FORMED MO WHO I AM TODAY.

I'M ALSO SO GRATEFUL THAT MY SON HAS GN UP IN HAWAII FOR THE FIRST4 YEARS OF HIS LIFE BECAUSE S MADE HIM WHO HE IS TODAY, E IS SO PROUD TO BE HAWAIIAN.

IF HE REMAINS ON THE CONTI, HIS FUTURE KEIKI MAY BE BON THE CONTINENT AND NOT LIVED HAVE THE SAME CHILDHOOD THE TOOK FOR GRANTED.

WE TAKE HAWAIIAN HISTORY, WE HAVE HAWAIIAN CULTURE, WE TAKE UKULELE CLASSES.

YOU KNOW,E HAVE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

HIS KEIKI THAT MIGHT BE LON A SENSE.

>> YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAWAII WITHOUT NATIVE HAWAIIANS RT THERE IS A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SADNESS BECAUSE, AGAIN, WHE TALK ABOUT WELL, WHEN I BRP THAT GENEALOGY IS PARAMOUNN ALL THINGS THAT WE DO KANA, RIGHT?

WHAT LIKE WE QUITE LITERALLY HAVE GENEALOGICAL CONNECTION TO THE LAND, SOE LAND WITHOUT KANAKA, WHILET WILL SURVIVE AND BE FINE, S MUCH AS THERE'S A SADNESS R KANAKA THAT ARE LIVING ELSE AND LONGING FOR HOME, IT'SE SAME THING WITH THE LAND.

>> Yunji: SUCH RICH PERSPECTIVE KS.

I WANT TO KEY IN TO A LOT .

KEPA, SOME OF YOUR FAMILY S LIVE ON CONTINENT.

WHAT HAS THAT DISTANCE MEAR YOU?

>> I HAVE GO OLDER SISTERS.

ONE WENT TOP KAIPUNI.

AND ANOTHER IS 15 YEARS OLR THAN ME.

SHE WAS A GENERATION BEEN E SYSTEMS STARTED.

SHE'S LIVED IN LOS~ANGELESW YORK AND CURRENTLY IS IN TENNESSEE.

SHE ALSO HAS THREE KIDS.

ALL THREE WERE BORN THERE E CONTINENT.

WHAT I WILL SAY, AS MUCH AS THERE HAS BEEN A LOSS, I TK WHAT OUR PARENTS DID RIGHTS THEY MADE SURE THAT EVEN TH OUR KEIKI HAUNANA, NIECES D NEPHEWS ARE BORN THERE, THY HAVE AN AUNTIE AND UNCLE.

THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HOPEFY QUESTION AS MUCH AS THEM BG HAWAIIAN ENOUGH OR NOT BECE WE'RE GOING TO TELL THEM TE HAWAIIAN ENOUGH.

WHETHER THEY KNOW 'OLELO HI OR NOT.

WHETHER THEY HAVE ANY INI R NOT, THAT'S A NARRATIVE THS HARMFUL.

I WANT ALL NATIVE HAWAIIAN, REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY AO KNOW THEY'RE HAWAIIAN ENOU.

>> Yunji:S AUDIENCE IS STARTING TO PARTICIPATE.

WE LOVE YOU CALLING IN AND WRITING.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I WOULD LOVE IT, NOELANI, U WOULD TAKE THIS.

YOU DID SAY HAWAIIAN IS HAN IN THE LAST QUESTION.

THIS PERSON IS ASKING, WHOS TO DEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TOE HAWAIIAN FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HAWAIIAN BY ANCESTRY BUT MT SPEAK 'OLELO HAWAI'I, PRACE HULA OR OTHER VISIBLE CULTL TRADITION.

ALSO WITH CHRIS WAS SAYING.

SHAME SHE FELT LIVING ON TE CONTINENT AND NOT FEELING HAWAIIAN ENOUGH.

RESPONDING TO CHRIS AND THS CALLER, WHO GETS TO DEFINET IT MEANS TO BE HAWAIIAN?

>> I THINK EACH INDIVIDUAL PERSON DEFINES WHAT IT MEAO BE HAWAIIAN.

AND IN MY PRACTICE, I SAY O YOU.

IF YOU GO BACK TO OUR ANCES NOT EVERYBODY WAS SKILLED FARMER.

WE WERE SKILLED.

WE WERE SKILLED IN MAYBE OR TWO THINGS.

THAT'S WHAT I THINK.

THAT'S WHAT MY FAMILY IS, O YOU DEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TE HAWAIIAN FOR YOU.

AND I'M 45.

SOME OF US UP HERE ARE THAT GENERATION.

I WENT TO KAMEHAMEHA.

WE NEVER HAD TO TAKE 'OLELO HAWAI'I.

WE HAD ROTC BACK THEN.

IT LOOKS VERY, VERY DIFFER, AND SO I NEVER HAD TO WEAV.

SOME OF OUR CLASSMATES ARED WE LEARN ANYTHING IN OUR GENERATION?

THE CONSENSUS IS NOT THAT .

AND SO FOR THE PEOPLE OUT E LIKE THE PERSON WHO WROTE O WHAT FEELS GOOD TO YOU BECI GUARANTEE IF YOU'RE LIKE, I COULD GET ONBOAR ONBOARD WI BET DOWN THE LINE, THERE'SA IN YOUR GENEALOGY.

I FEEL LIKE YOUR KUPUNA GUS YOU.

IF YOU'RE AN ACTIVIST, THES SOME KIND OF ARTTIVIST IN R LINE.

I FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO LIN TO YOU AND BE TRUE TO WHO U ARE.

AND RUN YOUR OWN RACE AND S IT.

THAT'S WHAT I DO IN MY PRA.

HELP PEOPLE TO BE LIKE, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

RUN YOUR OWN RACE AND MAIK.

>> Yunji: I SEE YOU NODDIN.

HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THE R AND WHAT CHRIS SAID ABOUT T SHAME SHE FELT NOT FEELING HAWAIIAN ENOUGH?

>> I APPRECIATE THE DISCUSN GOING IN THIS DIRECTION.

DESTIG MA TIEING THE VERY IMPORTANT.

IN THE FUTURE OF US AS A L. HAWAI'I IS THE ONLY PACIFIC ISLAND NATION THAT HAS THAD OF STIGMA.

IF YOU'RE SAMOAN BORN IN MONTERREY, CALIFORNIA, YOUO LESS TONGANO SAMOAN.

WHY DOES THAT EXIST FOR HAWAIIANS?

>> Yunji: ONE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

>> I HAD SOME SADNESS HEARG THIS BECAUSE MY -- MY GRANDMOTHER LIVED IN JACKS, MISSISSIPPI.

PURE HAWAIIAN.

SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON IT TO.

SIX YEARS OLD BY MYSELF.

THAT WAS THE FIRST HAWAIIAI SPENT TIME WITH.

I HAD TO GO AWAY TO EXPERIE THAT.

SAD LESSNESS IS LIKE A BITTERSWEETNESS.

TOO MANY HAWAIIANS OUT THE, BUT THERE'S A HUGE OPPORTUY FOR FOLKS TO COME BACK.

I'M BLOWN AWAY BY YOUR HUM, HI'IAKA.

HI'IAKA OF THE SEND OUR KIO THOSE SCHOOLS.

IT'S VERY INSPIRING TO HEAR THAT.

>> Yunji: HI'IAKA, WE'LL GE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESP.

WHEN YOU'VE HEARD THOSE VOS FROM THE CONTINENT AND KNOG THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE OF YOR GENERATION CONSIDERING LEAG PERHAPS FOR CLEGG COLLEGE T MAKING THEIR WAY BACK.

HOW DO YOU TAKE IN?

>> WHAT IS IT TO BE HAWAII?

TO BE HAWAIIAN IS ACTION.

SOMETHING THAT I LEARNED, E IN HAWAII, THERE'S SO MANY ISSUES GOING ON WITH TOURI, THE MILITARIZATION OF HAWA, POLLUTION, AND THERE'S SO Y THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DON.

AND THAT DOESN'T NECESSARIY MEAN IT'S ONLY THINGS THATN BE DONE HERE IN HAWAI'I.

WE CAN'T ALWAYS BE SO HERE.

I THINK THAT HAWAI'I NEEDSO BRANCH OUT INTERNATIONALLY.

GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY THH PADDLING TO TRAVEL ABROODSD MEET OTHER SIBLING BROADENY HORIZON HOE TOW WE CAN GROA KINGDOM.

HERE, THEY TEACH US ABOUT .

END PENCE, WHAT SOVEREIGNT, AND AS A HAWAIIAN, IT'S MY KULEANA TO FIND A WAY WHERE CAN WORK BACK TO SELF-GOVERNNESS.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS E LEARNED IN SCHOOL.

>> Yunji: I WANT TO KEY IN TOKING A IAN SAID.

LAND MISSING THE PEOPLE.

RICK, WHAT DID THAT BRING R YOU?

>> ONE OF THE THINGS HE MENTIONED THAT YOU CANNOT E HAWAI'I WITHOUT HAWAIIANS,D I'M PROBABLY GOING TO GET T OF FLACK FOR THIS, BUT HAWI WAS HAWAI'I FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE ANY PERSON CAE HERE.

AND ONCE OUR ANCESTORS GOT, WE STARTED TO CHANGE 'AINA.

AND THINGS STARTED TO GET E LATER.

BUT IN ORDER TO HAVE THAT SELF-IDENTITY, WE GOT TO BE TO RECONNECT TO THE ORIGINL STATE OF OUR 'AINA OR TRY .

RIGHT NOW, SO MANY OF IT HS BEEN CHANGED, THAT WE CAN'T CONNECT TO IT.

WE'RE CONNECTING TO IT, BUT WE'RE THINKING THAT WE'RE CONNECTING TO IT IN A HAWAN SENSE, BUT WE'RE CONNECTINO THINGS THAT THAT RESPECT HN PLANT-WISE.

FOR ME, TRYING TO SHOW PEOE THAT A LOT OF THE PLANTS TE GREW UP WITH THAT WE THINKE HAWAIIAN, WE IDENTIFY AS HAWAIIAN THAT AREN'T IS PAF THAT GROWTH AND PART OF THT UNDERRING OF -- UNDERRING G HOW YOU CAN BE HAWAIIAN.

IT'S A TOUCHY SUN BUT DONE DEPARTMENT SUBJECT BUT WE GOT TO GO WITH THAT.

>> Yunji: THOSE AT HOME AND WITH MALIA ON MOLOKAI, GIVE WORK YOU'RE DOING WITH RECLAIMING THAT LAND ON MOI AND EFFORTS THERE TO'S THEL THAT LAND, WHAT DO YOU MAKF THAT COMMENT?

HAWAI'I MISSES THE PEOPLE S MUCH AS PEOPLE MISS THE LA?

>> I TOTAL LE TOTALLY RESOT MANAO.

I'VE HAD A LOT OF THOUGHT,N THAT I'M A PROFESSOR AND SF MY HAUMANA ARE KANAKA.

THEY ASK ME TO SERVE UNDER MASTERS AND Ph.D.

COMMUNIT.

AND I FEEL THE SENSE OF LON THEM.

FOR ME, EVEN SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT EEL LIKE THEY THROW Y HAWAIIANS, AND I SAY NO.

THE BONES OF YOUR ANCESTORN THIS LAND.

DON'T HAVE THIS SELF-HATRED BECAUSE YOU'RE HIS DISHONOG YOUR ANCESTORS.

IF OTHERS KANAKA DISPARAGE, YOU HAVE TO STAND STRONGLYR YOUR KUPUNA BECAUSE FROM IR DNA, THAT'S 9 MANA AND IKET FLOWS THROUGH YOUR VEINS.

I REMEMBER KUMU HULA MARK TALKING ABOUT IF YOU AWAY M HAWAI'I, THEN YOUR ISLAND S YOUR BODY.

AND IF WE THINK ABOUT OUR GENEALOGY, THAT WE'RE EMBED IN 'AINA, THAT MAKES SENSE.

MY EXPERIENCE, TOO, IS ONEY HAUMANA SAID I STILL HAVE A SENSE OF KULEANA.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT?

AND I SAID, YOU'RE GOING TD YOUR OWN WAY.

LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS WILL GE YOU.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE FACT THT WE'RE WAYFINDERS, WE'RE VOYAGERS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MALAMA HONUA JOURNEY, IT WAS THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR PEOPLE AT TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF MANY AROUND THE WORLD.

SO WHEN I THINK OF OUR ADVENTUROUS KUPUNA THAT WEN SHIPS AND DID WHALING AND D WITH THE FIRST NATIONS PEO, AND YOU HAVE PLACES LIKE IN WASHINGTON WHERE I USED TOE WHEN I WAS IN MY UNDERGRAD CALLED KALAMA, THERE IS THT CONNECTION, AND WE ARE OCEN PEOPLE.

SO WE SHOULDN'T FEEL BAD WE HOLOHOLO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

MY OTHER STUDENT HAS ALII , AND HE TALKED ABOUT HE DIDS WHOLE Ph.D.

FROM LAND BACKO MOLOKAI.

THAT WAS A MAKANA TO OUR P. HE COFOUNDED THIS FUND.

INCLUDING MOLOKAI.

SO OUR PEOPLE ON THE CONTIT AND AROUND THE WORLD ARE SO PRECIOUS TO ME.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR TH.

PAIGE, I TO GO BACK TO THE SECOND HALF OF THIS CALL'S QUESTION.

IS THERE ROOM FOR PEOPLE TK THEIR HAWAIIAN IDENTITY WIT BEING MADE TO FEEL THEY'RET HONOLULU ENOUGH?

IF THEY DON'T PADDLE OR MAE FEATHER LEI OR DO LEI AT A, WHAT IS THE OPENNESS TO TH?

>> YEAH, I THINK THERE'S RM FOR EVERYBODY.

AND IN THIS DISCUSSION ANDH WHAT THE CALLER SAID, IT TS ABOUT THE LONGING THEY FEE.

I THINK WE CAN FEEL THAT LONGENING AND WE'RE HOME H. I FEEL THAT LONGING FOR THE COMMUNITY, FOR THE -- I GRP IN.

WE HAVE THAT LONGING.

THAT'S HOW WE FIND OUR PAT.

WE FEEL THE LOSS, AND WE LG FOR EITHER THE NOSTALGIA OT OR THE CONNECTION TO BE SOF REBUILT.

WHAT'S IMPORTANT WHEN WE TK ABOUT HOW WE DEFINE OURSELS IDENTITY.

LANGUAGE IS A BIG VEIN.

A BIG PART OF THE DISCUSSIN TODAY.

WHICH IS WONDERFUL.

AND SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE CERTAIN THINGS ARE NOT ENO, OR OTHER CERTAIN THINGS DEE OUR IDENTITY.

I THINK IF WE THINK OUR REP PRICLE OUR PILINA IS, GOT T THINGS BACK IN THE COMMUNI.

I THINK OUR COMMUNITY RECOS EACH OTHER AS HAWAIIANS.

WE'RE HAWAIIAN ON THIS PAN, BUT I DON'T WANT TO ALSO FT OUR CULTURAL PRACTICES OF .

SO I THINK PART OF CLAIM TT CAN IDENTITY OR FEELING HAN IS TO, LIKES MALIA SAID, FW THE LONGING.

WHERE DOES THAT TAKE YOU?

IF THAT'S YOUR KUPUNA PULLG YOU BACK, FOLLOW THAT PATH.

THAT'S HOW YOU'RE GOING TO HOOKELE YOURSELF TO WHAT YR PRACTICE IS GOING TO BE.

WE'RE SO USED TO DEFINING , MAKING LEI, FEATHERWORK.

IMPORTANT BUT MAYBE TECH IR PRACTICE, AND IF THAT'S YOR PRACTICE, THEN GROUND YOURF IN YOUR LANGUAGE AND YOUR CULTURE SO YOU CAN BRING TO YOUR PRACTICE.

I THINK THERE IS ROOM, BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY YOU GOTO FIND YOUR PATH TO WHAT -- E YOUR LONGING IS GOING TO LD YOU BACK HOME.

>> Yunji: DR.

ON OPUNUI, YA FATHER OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

HOW ARE YOU TEACHING THEM D DEFINING WHAT IT MEANS TO E HAWAIIAN FOR THEM?

>> IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND I THINK PART OF THE JOY JOURNEY -- WHICH IS A THERAPEUTIC AND HEALING ONS TO FIND AND STAND FIRM.

TO BE PAA IN THE TRUTH IN O YOU ARE.

AND HAWAIIANS ARE NOT HOMOGENEOUS PEOPLE, AND I K THERE IS POWER WHEN WE CAN CULTIVATE THE GIFTS THAT WE INHERIT AND ACQUIRE OVER TE COURSE OF OUR LIFE.

TO BE OF GREATEST SERVICE R COMMUNITY.

TO OUR LAHUI.

AND WHEN YOU CAN FIND THE H WHERE WE CAN FOSTER GROWTHN OUR STUDENTS IN OUR CHILDRD AT EVERY STAGE OF LIFE AND COMBINE THAT WITH A MEANINL WAY WHICH WE CAN BE OF SERE AND TO BE OF GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY IS SOMETHING THAT I, AS A FAT, WOULD BE VERY PROUD TO SEEY CHILDREN BLOSSOM.

>> Yunji: LET'S BRING BACK THOSE VOICES FROM THE COT .

>> Yunji: LEAVING HAWAI'I S NOT ONLY A STORY OF LOSS.

THE PEOPLE WE SPOKE WITH AE ALSO BUILDING COMMUNITIES, SHARING HAWAIIAN CULTURE AD FINDING NEW WAYS TO CONTRI.

HERE'S HOW THEY SEE THE FU.

>> I WOULD HOPE THAT PEOPLK HOME DO REALIZE THAT WE WAO CONTINUE TO SPREAD ALOHAS D EDUCATE OTHERS HERE ABOUT R CULTURE, OUR LANGUAGE, OUR HISTORY.

WE WANT TO CONTIN.

WE'RE NOT FORGETTING ABOUT HAWAII.

WE WANT TO EXPAND,U KNOW, AND GROW.

>> WE HAVE TO REMEMBER, LIR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIKE GREAT VOYAGERS SINCE TIME IMMEMO.

WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN A PEOPLET TRAVELED AND LIVED ELSEWHED EXPERIENCED THINGS.

OUR CAE PLANTS.

OUR CANOE PLANTS CE FROM ELSEWHERE, YOU KNOW.

BUT THEN WE, WE BROUGHT THO HAWAII, AND THEY WERE ABLEO THRIVE.

WHAT MAKES US THINS KANAKA BACK HOME IN HAWAII, RIGHT?

THAT WE'RE NOT GOINO THRIVE ELSEWHERE, LIKE WAUR KALO, YOU KNOW THAT WAS BRT TO HAWAII.

>> I THINK IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF HAWA, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE KAA WHO LIVE AWAY FROM HOME.

IE GET UP, IF WE GET CAUGHT UN HAWAII IS ONLY A PLACE, WEE SO FAR REMOVED FROM OUR KANAKANESS FROM HAWAII.

HAI IS NO LONGER JUST THE ISLAS ANYMORE.

53% OF US LIVE AWAY FROM H. THAT IS THE MAJORITY, AND S GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW R AFTER YEAR, AND SO THE FUTF HAWAII IS ON THE CONTINENTN OUR DIASPORA KANAKA.

I HEAR STORIES OF IMPACT FM HAWAIIANS ABOUT OUR KINDNE, OUR GENEROSITY.

I WAS IN CE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, AND I S TREATED SO WELL BECAUSE SOE HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH A HAWAIIAN WHO GRACIOUSLY, YU KNOW, GAVE THEM DINNER ANDE HOUSED THEM FOR A WEEK.

RI?

THESE ARE JUST NOT THESE AT ISOLATED STORIES FROM PEOPE FROM A DIFFERENT CULTURE'S GENERATIONS.

IS THAT WE'VE TOUCHED THE HEARTS FROM SOY PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WOR, AND I THINK THE WORLD WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW NEEDS MF US TO DEMONSTRATE OUR VALUS HAWAIIANS.

WE NEED TO CONTE TO LEAD IN THESE VALUES BEE WE THE WORLD NEEDS IT.

>> Yunji: SO I'D LOVE FOR U TO RESPOND TO WHAT CHRIS S. HAWAI'I IS NO LONGER THE ISLANDS.

THAT THE FUTURE IS IN THE DIASPORA.

THIS IS NOT TO CREATE AN IN HAWAI'I OR OUT OF HAWAI'I DEBATE.

GIVEN HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVET OF HAWAI'I, HOW DO WE RECOE THANK AND THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE?

>> YEAH, WHAT'S REAL FOR MR SON'S IN COLLEGE NOW IN THE CONTINENT, AND I WANT HIM O COME HOME.

WHAT WILL BRING HIM HOME IS GROUNDINGS.

WE TOOK ON KULEANA.

WE GROW KALO.

IN PARTICIPATING IN THAT, E OF THOSE THINGS TAKE EFFORN OUR PART TO MAKE SURE QUESN GROUND OURSELVES, GROUND OR KIDS.

WHEN THIS COMES TYKE TO MAE THAT DECISION, THEY CAN MAE THAT.

I HAVE HOPE HE WILL COME BK AND MANY OTHERS.

SAVING SEEDS FOR FOLKS, YE.

>> Yunji: HAA, HOW DO YOU E WHAT CHRIS SAYS?

>> I HOPE WE DON'T ENVISIOT HAWAI'I AND HAWAIIANS AND I CAN BE SPREAD ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

I HOPE WE FOCUS ON BRINGING HAWAIIANS BACK.

THAT'S REALLY K3W0R7B8.

LIKE MALIA WAS SAVING EARL, MY FATHER IS FROM MOLOKAI D LIVING IN WAIANAE SINCE TH- SINCE HIS TEENAGE YEARS.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE -T JUST HAWAIIANS COME BACK HO HONOLULU OR OAHU, BUT HAWAS GO BACK TO THE NEIGHBOR IS.

>> CAN I ADD TO THAT?

>> Yunji: KEPA, YES.

>> THANK YOU FOR BRINGING T UP.

I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WHE AWAY COME FROM FAMILIES SEG OPPORTUNITIES ELSEWHERE AND MAYBE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE T WENT, THEY WERE SEEKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEMSELV.

I'M KIND OF INTERESTED TO E MY PERSONAL STORY.

AFTER I LEFT KAINI, GRADUAD FROM KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOL.

I CHOSE TO GO AWAY.

I WAS CURIOUS, AND I THINK THAT'S A BIG PART OF OUR L. WIND-- WE'RE CURIOUS PEOPL.

ALOHA IS EVER EN COMPASSIN.

BECAUSE I WAS ROOTED, MY KA AND MAKUA WERE ABLE TO GIFO ME.

THE DEEPER MY ROOTS WERE, FURTHER I FELT I COULD GO.

I WAS ABLE TO STUDY IN SOUN CALIFORNIA AND ITALY.

BECAUSE I WAS FLUENT IN MY LANGUAGE, IT WAS EASIER LEN ANOTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

'OLELO HAWAI'I IS THE WAI T FEEGHTSDZ -- FEEDS THE AHU.

WHERE DOES THE WAI GO?

IS IT IN SOLAR WORK?

-- SO?

IN MEDICINE, IN TECH?

THE MORE THAT 'OLELO HAWAIS EXPANDS MORE THAT WE'LL BEE TO AGREE, HAWAIIANS WHETHER THEY'RE HERE IN HAWAI'I ORT BUT AGAIN THE MORE ROOTED A ARE HERE IN HAWAI'I, IN OUR LANGUAGE, THE FURTHER PEOPN GO AWAY AND KNOW THEY'LL BE TO CONTRIBUTE BACK TO HAWAI ONE DAY.

>> Yunji: PAIGE, CAN HAWAIN COMMUNITY GROW STRONGER OUE OF HAWAI'I WHILE STRENGTHEN HAWAI'I ITSELF?

HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THE VOS FOR THE FOLKS ON THE CONTIT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE INCLUDED?

HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONSA LOT OF IT FELT LIKE, DON'T FORGET ABOUT US.

HOW DO WE MAKING SURE THATE IS THAT CONNECTION?

>> YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT TS SUCH A HARD THING TO DO WHN YOU'RE PHYSICALLY SO SEPARE THE.

AND I THINK SOMETIMES, US S HAWAIIANS, WE CAN BE A LITE BIT ETHNOCENTRI C, TOO.

WE ARE PHYSICALLY SEPARATEE FARTHEST FROM THE REST OF R OCEANIA NATIONS.

SO SOMETIMES WE GET A LITTT SORT OF -- A LITTLE BIT FOD ON OURSELVES, BUT I THINK T DOES UNFORTUNATELY WHEN YOE FAR AWAY, REQUIRE A LITTLET MORE EFFORT.

I'M A LANGUAGE PERSON.

I THINK WE ARE IDENTIFIED R LANGUAGE.

IT'S TIED TO OUR IDENTITY D OUR NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

LIKES KEPA SAID, THE MORE T WE START TO SPEAKING THE SE LANGUAGE, THAT IS OURS.

THE MORE WE'RE GOING TO STO SEE -- IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'E GOING TO SOME DAY KUMBAYA D GET ALONG.

>> WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHERET COMES FROM.

I DO A LOT OF MY WORK, I LT WHAT OUR KUPUNA WERE SAYINO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOINGO MOVE FORWARD.

1918, THERE'S AN ARTICLE WRITTEN.

IT TALKS ABOUT THE AUTHOR S LAMENTING THE LOSS OF LANG.

GENERATION OF KEIKI SPEAKIG ENGLISH.

THEIR PARENTS IS SPEAKING ENGLISH.

AND ME LITERALLY -- HE OR , THEY WRITE IT'S AS IF THEIN IS TURNING RIGHT BECAUSE TE NOT SPEAKING OUR LANGUAGE ANYMORE.

OLIN TRAVELED THE WORLD AND LEARNED SO MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.

I THINK WHAT IS SOMETHING T NOBODY CAN TAKE AWAY FROM S YOUR LANGUAGE.

SO IF YOU'RE LIVING IN LOSS VASES, IF YOU'RE LIVING INW YORK, THERE ARE MORNS IN -- HAWAIIANS IN GERMANY.

NOBODY CAN TAKE AWAY FROM .

THIS BODY AND MOVEMENT PUSS SO FAR.

WE STILL NEED THAT 2*U678 D NORMALIZATION CAN HAPPEN.

WHOLE NATION GOT TO BE SING THE SAME LANGUAGE.

>> Yunji: THERE CAN BE DISAGREEMENT.

THERE'S A QUESTION HERE, DU THINK THERE'S SO MUCH IN FIGHTING BETWEEN HAWAIIANS?

IS THERE A BARRIER TO PROGS AS A PEOPLE?

>> I THINK AT THE ROOT OF CONGRESS -- CONFLICT IS A REAL OR PERCD MISALIGNMENT IN VALUES AND PRIORITIES.

SO I THINK WE NEED TO HAVEE GREATER ALIGNMENT OR WHEREE ARE GOING AS A PEOPLE, ANDO SHIFT THE CONVERSATION IN Y DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, A QUN I WOULD POSE IS, CAN WE LEE THE DIASPORA TO OUR ADVANTS A PATHWAY FOR GREATER SELF-DETERMINATION?

AND WHEN LAST THING THAT ID ADD AS A BYPRODUCT OF THE D DIASPORA.

WHO BOUNCES BACK BETWEEN *9 AND LAS VEGAS, WE CAN FLOWR FROM THE STREAM, BUT WE NER LOSE OUR SOURCE.

OUR GENEALOGY LIVES WITHIN.

>> Yunji: HI'IAKA, I'M GOIG TO READ A COUPLE COMMENTS D I'D LOVE FOR YOU TO RESPON.

OFTENAUNTIE SAYS DIASPORA N GOING ON.

IF THE YOUNGER GENERATION S MOVING TO THE COT COT CONT?

IF THEY LOVE THE LAND, THED TO PRESERVE THEIR CULTURE D LAND.

THIS PERSON SAID I UNDERSTD WHY PEOPLE MOVE.

I APPLAUD THOSE WHO CAN ST.

LAST PERSON SAYS YES, HOW E BRING HOME THOSE WHO WISH O RETURN?

HEARING LONGING NOT ONLY FM THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE NO E BUT HERE WHO ARE HERE WHO S THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERSY FROM HOME.

HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO ALL F THIS?

>> SPEAKING TO ALL THE KEIO LIVE IN HAWAI'I, WHO DON'TN HAWAI'I, SOMETHING WE'RE FORTUNATE WITH, IKE IS AT E TIP OF OUR FINGERS.

EVERYONE HAS A PHONE NOW D, EVERYONE HAS AN PAD PALLET.

SO MUCH IKE TRANSFERRED TOS TECH.

IT'S AMAZING WE'RE TAKING D PALAPALA AND RESOURCES.

AND LEARN ABOUT OUR DIFFERT HAWAIIAN CULTURAL PRACTICE.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR GENERATION TAKES FOR GRANT.

BACK IN THE DAY THEY HAD TO TO THE LIBRARY AND READ BO.

AND MY KU HUES ARE ALWAYS TELLING US, USE THE TECH TE HAVE NOWADAYS TO LEARN IKE HAWAI'I.

EVEN IF YOU'RE OUT OF THE , THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO LEAN APPROXIMATE YOUR HAWAIIAN CULTURAL PRACTICES.

MAYBE HARD TO GET OUT IN TE FIELD IF YOU'RE LIVING IN E CONTINENT.

NOT A LOT OF LOI PATCHES BT BUILD YOURSELF A GARDEN.

STAPBILITYSUSTAINABILITY IY DIFFERENT THINGS.

FOR THE MAK A MAKUA WHO TAT MOSQUE AWAY, LIKE IN THE TH INDUSTRY, IN HAWAI'I WE'RE LACKING IN SOME OF THESE DS AND STUDIES THAT -- I KNOWT A LOT OF MY CLASSMATES WANO PURSUE.

I SUPPORT ALL HAUMANA WHO T TO GO AWAY FROM SCHOOL.

ALL THE MAKUA WHO GO AWAY D GET SO SKILLED IN WHATEVERR JOB IS, COME BACK TO HAWAID MAKE THOSE SPACES FOR OUR GENERATION.

OPEN TECH COMPANIES HERE IN HAWAI'I.

THAT ME AND MY FRIENDS CANY AT.

FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH.

BRING IT HOME SO WE DON'T L LIKE WE NEED TO GO A WAY FM HOME TO LEARN ABOUT THIS.

>> Yunji: INTERESTS QUESTI.

ONES I'M ABOUT TO READ COUE THEIR OWN KAKOU.

WE'RE ABOUT IT'S HALFWAY P. MALIA, I'D LOVE FOR YOU TOD US OFF.

SHOULD HAWAIIAN CHILDREN BE PLEDGING ALEE ALLEGIANCE TA WHILE LEARNING ABOUT THE OVERTHROW?

WHAT SHOULD NATIVE HAWAIIAS HAVE IN THE CAN'T U.S.

GOVERNMENT?

CAN NATIVE HAWAIIANS PARTIE IN INSTITUTIONS LIKE CONGRS WHILE PURSUING IDEAS LIKE HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY?

MALIA, YOU'RE THE LAW PROF.

I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO TAE THIS ON.

>> SO I LOOK TO THE WISDOMF OUR ALII WHEN THEY SAW THEE CHANGING.

LIKE PRINCETON -- PRINCE K. I GOING TO CONGRESS AND COE THEM TO CREATE THE HAWAIIAN COMMISSIONS ACT.

WE HAVE KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS, QUEEN KAPIOLANI CHILDREN -- MEDICAL CENTER FOR HAWAIIAN MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

YOU HAVE QUEEN LILI'UOKALAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR ORPHN CHILDREN.

OUR ALII WERE VERY WISE.

THEY SAID, OKAY, I'M GOINGO USE THIS WESTERN LAW TO THE BENEFIT OF OUR PEOPLE BECAE OUR ROLE AS ALII IS TO TAKG CARE OF OUR PEOPLE.

AS AN ATTORNEY, I HAVE TO UTILIZE THE TOOLS AT MY DISPOSAL.

I PERSONALLY WANT INDEPEND, BUT IT'S HARD.

AND THE PROBLEMS ARE NOW SY WOULD I PUT MYSELF ON A BYD AND DO NOTHING?

NO.

I HAVE KULEANA.

I GOT TO DO SOMETHING WITHE LIFE THAT I HAVE.

AND SO I'VE WORKED WITHIN , COUNTY, FEDERAL FRAMEWORKSD I THINK MAYBE THE COME CULF MY WORK IS 'AINA HUI OF THE SOMETIMES IB GETS -- I GETT WITH THESE OPPRESSIVE LAWS.

MAYBE WE GOT TO OWN THE LA.

AND THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO.

USE THAT ENGINE YOUTY.

ADAPTIVITY AND INNOVATION BECAUSE WE ARE A LIVING CU.

WE DIDN'T TOP STOP WITH OUT DAYS.

WE CONTINUING TO LIVE AND E AND STRUGGLE AND OVERCOME CHALLENGES, AND THAT'S OUR RIGHT.

NOW YOU, WE'RE NOT A MUSEUM CULTURE.

WE'RE NOT EXTINCT.

WE GOT TO FIND WAYS TO TAKG CARE OF EACH OTHER.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

CAN YOU RESPOND?

CAN NATIVE HAWAIIANS PARTIE IN INSTITUTIONS LIKE CONGRS AND PURSUE SOVEREIGNTY OR E THEY IN CONFLICT?

>> MALIA MALIA REFERENCED E KUHIO.

KING KAMEHAMEHA III.

HE WAS GETTING FLACK AND CRITICISM FOR APPOINTING HE GOVERNMENT MEMBERS.

THEY TOLD THEM THEY NEED TO TEACH US THEN THESE POSITIO TO HAWAIIANS.

HAWAIIANS SHOULD ABSOLUTEL- AND THEY ARE IN THOSE POSI.

>> Yunji: WE'VE BEEN TALKIA LOT ABOUT HAWAIIANS.

THAT IS THE FOCUS OF THE S, BUT WE LIVE IN A COMMUNITYE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE O ARE NOT HAWAIIAN AND HAVE O LIVE SIDE BY SIDE.

WHAT RESPONSIBILITIES DO YU THINK NON-HAWAIIANS HAVE, T MOVING HAWAIIANS FORWARD?

RICK, I'M START WITH YOU.

>> I THINK THEY CAN PLAY AD ROLE WITH KOKUA BUT NOT NECESSARILY LEADING THE WA.

RIGHT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO 'AINA, THE MAJORITY OF OURT ENDANGERED SPECIES ARE BEIG OVERRUN BY GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS OR SCIENCE-BAD INSTITUTION THAT DON'T HAVE PEOPLE OF HAWAIIAN ANCESTRN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKFOE DOING THAT.

TO ME, THAT'S GOT TO CHANG.

I THINK THE -- THAT GOVERNT ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH, AND WE DEPENDING TOO MUCH ON THEMO MAKE THE CHANGE, TO MAKE TS BETTER.

AND WE GOT TO TAKING ALL OT IN OUR OWN HANDS.

BUT WHERE THEY CAN KOKUA IS WHERE MAYBE TECHNOLOGY OR H IDEAS THAT COULD HELP ASSIS IN ACHIEVING OUR GOALS.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE'RE PRETTY GOOD.

[LAUGHTER] >> Yunji: NOELANI, YOUR THOUGHTS.

WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITYF NON-HAWAIIANS IN THE HAWAIN COMMUNITY TO HELPING IMPROE FUTURE?

>> I DON'T KNOW IF I'M THET TO BE ANSWERING THIS QUEST.

I DO THINK NATIVE HAWAIIANS SHOULD BE LEADING.

YOU CAN BE OF HAWAI'I BUT E NATIVE HAWAIIAN, THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL THAT OLEU WILL YOU'D.

THE FAY WAY YOU FEEL, 9 WAU PERCEIVE THINGS, THE WAY YU ROLL AND MOVE THROUGHOUT TE EARTH, IT'S SOMETHING SPEC.

PEOPLE WHO GROWN UP HERE, Y FAMILY, BUT TO BE NATIVE HAWAIIAN, THERE'S SOME NUA.

I DO THINK BY LEADERS WHO E NATIVE HAWAIIAN SHOULD BE E FOREFRONT OF LEADING AND LE MANY OF THEM -- OUR PANELIT SAID, PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT NE HAWAIIAN CAN DEFINITELY KA.

I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO WEE SOME OF THIS CONVERSATION,Y DAUGHTER AND I JUST READ TE BOOK "KAMEHAMEHA" BECAUSE S A BOOK IN OUR BACKYARD OF H KOHALA, HAWAIIAN ISLAND.

I DIDN'T KNOW THE AUTHOR WY KUMUMU KAWIKA.

HE IS NOT NATIVE HAWAIIAN.

IF I'M WRONG, I APOLOGIZE,T SO BELOVED AND WROTE ME A .

I DO THINK NATIVE HAWAIIAN SHOULD BE LEADING THE CHARD TAKING CONTROL OF OUR FUTU.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERS WONDERFUL PEOPLE OUT THEREO ALSO DO INCREDIBLE THINGS E LEARN INCREDIBLE THINGS THH THE BOOK "KAMEHAMEHA."

SO YEAH, SORRY MY ANSWER WS NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.

>> Yunji: IT SHOWS THE TENN CHING KEPA, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

SHOULD HAWAIIAN CHILDREN BE PLEDGING AY ALLEGIANCE?

>> IT ALWAYS TO EA.

I DO WANT TO ANSWER WHAT YU WERE ASKING NOE EARLIER BEE THE MAP THING FOR NON HAWAS IS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS IS OFTEN D FOR HAWAI'I IN GENERAL BECE IF YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS YOU WERE TALKING AB, THE STATISTICS WHERE WE'RE, HEALTHWISE, INDICATORS-WISF HAWAIIANS ARE IMPROVING, TO SOME AROUND US IS MOVING.

THE ECOSYSTEM FOR ALL IS IMPROVING.

I'LL SHARE A WORLD LEADER,O WILL REMAIN NAMELESS SHARDH ME AND OTHER LEADERS.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE GROWING UN HAWAI'I AND LEAD IN THE WOD STAGE?

AND WHAT IS SOMETHING THATE COULD OFFER TO US IN TERMSF OUR IKE.

HERE IN HAWAI'I, PROXIMITYS POWER BECAUSE WE LIVE ON IS WE SEE EACH OTHER AND SEE E WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US E FREQUENTLY THAN PEOPLE WHOE ON THE CONTINENT.

THERE'S A LOT OF POWER IF E STAY CURIOUS.

THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT'S NOTY KULEANA TO TELL YOU WHAT YU SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO WIH YOUR KEIKI.

IT IS MY KULEANA TO SAY STS WHERE.

KEWE CAN SEEK A LOT MOVER UNDERRING.

>> Yunji: MOANI SAYS WE LOT SO MUCH IN SO MANY WAYS.

I LOVE IN THE COUNTRY.

WE ARE INUNDATED WITH STOR.

I FEEL LEFT OUT.

I APPRECIATE THE COMMENT BT HAWAIIAN LIVING IN THE STA.

I DON'T FEEL INCLUDED.

PAIGE.

>> I MEAN MOANI AND I LIVEN THE SAME SIDE OF THE ISLAN.

PEW PEWPUPUKEA IS MORE DIS.

YES, WE ARE LIVING IN A TIE WHERE THINGS ARE RAPIDLY CHANGING.

I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT BEFOT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, SUGR PLANTATION IN WAIALUA WAS RUNNING.

I DON'T THINK ANY OF US THS WET WE'D BE IN A TIME WHERE THG LANDOWNERS WHO SELL THE LA?

NOW WE'RE IN THIS POSITIONE NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO OFFLD THIS LAND THAT'S NO LONGER MAKING THEM MONEY.

IN WAIALUA AND PUPUKEA, DOS SELLING OFF LAND BECAUSE IO LONGER MAKING MONEY FOR TH.

AND THEY'RE GOING TO SELL O WHOEVER HAS MONEY.

IT'S A LOSS WE WEREN'T PRED OR THINKING ABOUT.

IN LOSING THAT WE LOSE ALLS KNOWLEDGE.

SO WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IE GRANDPA, DAVID, SAID GO TOE COMMUNITY AND TELL PEOPLE O BOUGHT LAND NOT TO FILL THW AREAS WHERE THE WATER IS GG TO DRAIN SO WE DON'T FLOOD.

HE WOULD -- THAT'S PART OFG THE COMMUNITY.

HE WOULD GO TO THE HOUSE.

DON'T FILL THAT SPOT.

THEY FILL 'EM.

TOLD YOU DON'T BUT I HELP ?

WE'RE SAVING OUR COMMUNITYD KEEPING THEM SAFE.

PLANTATION ALSO DID THAT.

DITCH LAND KEPT THE DITCH .

NOW YOU NO MORE PLANTATION.

WHO CARRIES THAT KNOWLEDGE?

IT'S NOT JUST US BEING DISD PHYSICALLY, THAT KNOWLEDGES BEING DISPLACED AND LOST.

NOW WE'RE AT A POINT, HOW E MANAGE THE COMMUNITY?

THE 'AINA WEILY ON.

AND NOW PRIVATE PROPERTY.

I DON'T FEEL I CAN GO TO MY NEIGHBOR.

DON'T FILL HERE.

THEY'LL PROBABLY CALL THE S ON ME.

NOW THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTS WHAT MOANI IS POINTING AT.

LOOK AT WHAT'S IN OUR CONT, SI IS PULL TOGETHER OUR COMMUNITY.

YOU CAN BE COMMITTED TO THE PLACE YOU LIVE.

YOU CAN BE GENERATIONAL FAY WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE PLACES.

THOSE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVEO COME TO OUR TABLE.

TO PUT A STOP TO THEIR QUIK DEVELOPMENT THAT CAUSES DAE TO ALL OF US.

>> Yunji: YEAH.

>> SO PLAY OFF OF THAT, THE BIGGEST LOSS AND BUSINESS E WAS WHEN IT GOT TURNED TO .

WHAT WE CAN HAVE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO THAT NOW, ID OF HAVING THIS BIG CROP THT NONE OF US WOULD BENEFIT FM OTHER THAN GET DIABETES FRM SUGAR.

WE CAN POTENTIALLY PREPARER WHAT THAT 'AINA MIGHT BE.

>> WHAT IT USED TO BE.

>> AND WHAT IT COULD BE AG.

TAKING WHATEVER FOOTPRINT O LONGER A MONO CROP OF SUGAE OR WHATEVER WAS THERE BEFO.

>> I THINK WHAT THEY'RE BOH DRIVING AT, AT THE ROOT OFT OF THE CHALLENGES WE'RE SEG TODAY IS THIS OPPOSITION IN WORLD VIEWS AND PRIORITIES.

AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT A WH WHILE HORIZON FOR US TO WOK TOWARDS IS A VISION OF INTERDEPENDENT THRIVING.

NOT THAT MY THRIVING AND MY HEALTH AND WELL-BEING COMET THE EG PENCE THE EXTENSION OF YOU BOW BE WE'RE IN THE RIGHT RELATIO.

THAT I THINK, IS WHAT WE NO CONTINUE WORKING TOWARDS.

>> WHEN I THRIVE YOU THRIV.

WE WANT EVERYBODY TO BE UPD FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.

>> Yunji: THIS E-MAIL I GO, WHAT CAREERS HAVE YOU NOTIE ARE CREATING NEW OPPORTUNIR NATIVE HAWAIIANS WHO HAVE H KNOWLEDGE OR HONOLULUS CREG NEW PATHWAYS FOR THEMSELVE.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IS THRIVING.

THIS CAN BE OTHER OPPORTUN.

CLE THERE IS REAL VALUE IN THEF ANOTHER KIND AS WELL.

>> I WOULDN'T SEPARATE THE.

THAT MAKES YOU SO MUCH BETN EVERY SINGLE THING YOU DO.

ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT E I KNOW IS DONOVAN.

HIS DEGREE IS IN HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

THE GUY DOES EVERYTHING.

FIGURES EVERYTHING OUT.

I SEE THAT AS A GIFT AND SI WOULD LEAN INTO THAT.

IF SOMEONE ASKED FOR MY ADS I WOULD SAY STUDY HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE OR CULTURE FIRST.

DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU WO TAKE THAT.

>> Yunji: HI'IAKA, I SEE YU SMILING.

WHAT ARE THE NEW CAREER PAS FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE HAWAIIAN KNOWLEDGE AT THE ART?

>> THERE'S BEING A SENIOR D TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WHATM GOING TO DO AFTER HULA IS O HARD.

I FIND THE BIGGEST PROBLEMR HAU MA NA IS A LOT OF THINE WANT TO STUDY, I HAVE A CLASSMATE GOING INTO FASHIN DESIGN, TECH, FIM AND MEDID TURNING THESE INTO HAWAIIAN SPACES.

HOW DO WE TURN FASHION DESN INTO SOMETHING WE CAN SHARE MO'OLELO ABOUT?

HOW DO WE FLIP THE TECH INY TO BEING MORE HAWAIIAN?

I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING SE DOES SO WELL.

I'VE HAD SO MANY CLASSMATEO THROUGH THAT.

HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO H OUT AND TRY DIFFERENT THINS SO HELPFUL FOR US.

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

>> Yunji: THERE'S A QUESTIN HERE THAT I THINK IS COMPE.

FOLKS WHO JOINED US FROM TE CONTINENT DID NOT JOIN US .

MALIA, KEEPING IN MIND WE A LITTLE UNDER 20 MINUTES.

BUT ASKS HOW DO THESE KANAO HAVE LEFT TO LIVE IN A FORN COUNTRY AS AMERICANS, HOW O THEY IN THE DIASPORA RECONE THEIR IMMIGRATION DISPLACES HAWAI'I?

DID THE DIASPORA FEEL GUILN MAKING IT MORE EASY TO SURT PEOPLE IN OUR LANDS?

I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO ANSWR THAT BUT I'M CURIOUS WHAT U MAKE OF THE QUESTION.

>> I THINK AS KANAKA, WE'RE ALWAYS PUT INTO COMPROMISIG SITUATIONS BECAUSE WE HAVEO TALK TWO WORLDS, YEAH.

AND I THINK AT THE VERY BAC LEVEL, IT'S TAKING CARE OFR OHANA.

THAT'S YOUR PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKED CHOICES BECAUSE YOU'RE BEIG FORCED OUT.

BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEI LOOK AT SOME OF MY HAUMANAN THE DIASPORA.

THOSE WHO SUCCESS, PARENTSE THEM IN THE SUMMER OR CHRIS TO TOUCH THE 'AINA.

SO THEY HAVE A REALLY STROG PIKO.

AND I THINK -- I DON'T FEEE KANAKA HERE BLAM THOSE WHOE IN THE DIASPORA.

WE ALL KNOW WHAT -- HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO REMAIN N HAWAI'I.

BUT I THINK IF WE JOIN FORS YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN BRIG THEM HOME.

WE EACH HAVE TO STRIVE FOR.

AND SOME HAVE KANAKA HAVE T THEIR WAY BECAUSE -- AND BE VERY CAPITALIST ORIENTED.

THAT IS A KAUMAHA.

MAYBE WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS CREATE BRIDGES SO THAT THEI WHO DIDN'T LEARN FROM THEIR MAKUA CAN LEARN.

AND WE'VE DONE THAT THROUGH EDUCATION AND THROUGH -- ESPECIALLY IN UPLIFTING OUR 'OLELO HAWAI'I.

SO MAYBE WE BOTH HAVE TO TY HARDER TOGETHER SO THAT THS THAT SENSE OF KULEANA FOR E LAI.

>> LAI.

>> Yunji: KEPA I SEE YOU NODDING.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE?

DO THE DIASPORA FEEL GUILT?

>> I THINK IT'S AN INTERESG QUESTION.

I WILL SPEAK TO MY OHANA.

MY PARTNER AND I RUN A CULL CONSULTING BUSINESS.

HE SPENT 17 YEARS AWAY FROM HAWAI'I PP BORN AND RAISED.

AFTER HIS FEAT FATHER PASSE WANTED TO TAKE CARE.

OF HIS OHANA.

STARTED WITH LEI MAKING.

IT ENDED UP BRANCHING INTO 'OLELO AND OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS, OLI.

OUR FUTURE IS TAKING OWNER.

TAKING OWNERSHIP OF OUR NARRATIVE.

AND ALSO UNDERSTANDING THAE TOURISM INDUSTRY THAT HAS PERVADE THE VAST MAJORITY R ECONOMY HERE IN HAWAI'I SHD BE LED BY US, HAWAI'I SHOUE LED BY OUR MO'OLELO.

THE IMPORTANT AS KANAKA TOE OPEN TO UNDERSTANDING THATF WE'RE GOING TO THRIVE IN OR LAHUI, WE HAVE TO OWN THIN.

OWN OUR 'AINA, OWN OUR LANE AND OUR STORIES.

>> Yunji: ANOTHER QUESTION.

HOW DO WE MAKE HAWAI'I FEEE A PLACE WHERE HAWAIIANS CAN BUILD A FUTURE HERE AND NOT SURVIVE BUT THRIVE.

LANDON, WHAT ARE YOUR THOU?

>> THAT QUESTION REMINDS UF THE IKE KUPUNA THAT CONTINO INSPIRE US.

AND IT CAN BE REPRESENTED N [SPEAKING HAWAIIAN] A FLOWER CAN ONLY BLOSSOM N HEALTHY CONDITIONS.

SO I THINK THE CONVERSATIO, IDEALLY OVER AWA, WE NEED O CONTINUE FIELD GOALERING AR AS A LAHUI.

WHAT ARE THE STRUCTURES THT NEED TO BE SHIFTED IN ORDEO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE HAWAIIANS CAN THRIVE?

>> Yunji: AND THERE ARE SOE STRUCTURES NOW.

THERE IS OLA AND DIFFERENT.

IS THAT ENOUGH?

I'LL START WITH YOU AND MOE ALONG.

>> I THINK IT BOILS DOWN TO GOVER NANS.

UNTIL THAT CAN BE RESTOREDE DON'T HAVE THE VOICE.

WE DON'T HAVE THE ADVOCACYR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NECESSY FOR US TO HAVE THE AGENCY O CREATE THOSE CONDITIONS.

>> Yunji: AND TO YOUR POIN, THERE'S A COMMENT FROM YouTube THAT ASKS, WHAT IMPACT DOES THE NATIVE HAWN VOICE HAVE IN HAWAI'I?

MUCH LESS U.S.

POLITICS.

HAWAIIAN MAKE UP A SMALL POPULATION, LESS THAN 22 2.

PAIGE, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF?

>> I DON'T KNOW.

I'M LOUD.

[LAUGHTER] IF YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUTT THAT WAY, NUMBERS ARE NOT G TO DO US ANY FAVOR.

BUT IF WE THINK -- ABOUT OR COLLECTIVE GOALS.

THERE'S ALSO BEING HAWAIIAA NATION, AS A NATIONALITY.

ONCE YOU BROADEN THAT, THE NUMBERS START TO TURN IN OR FAVOR.

WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOT ETHNICALLY HAWAIIAN.

WHAT IS HAWAI'I AS A NATIO?

AND IT IS MORE INCLUSIVE TN JUST GENEALOGY.

NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT PEOPLT ARE DEDICATED TO A NATION.

THEN OUR VOICE BECOMES LOUR AND MORE IMPORT.

AND I THINK EXACTLY WHAT LN SAYS.

WE LOSE SO MUCH.

THAT LONGENING IS ALWAYS T. SO I THINK OF HER AND THE CONFLICT SHE HAS.

ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY YOUR.

ON, YOU WORK WITH TOURISM, RIGHT?

IT'S OKAY BECAUSE THAT IS - YOU'RE TAKING YOUR GIFT AND YOU'RE TRYING, RIGHT.

YOU'RE TRYING.

AND THEN ANOTHER ONE THAT S COME OUT REGARDING DIASPORM GOING TO MAKE IT QUICK.

PEOPLE WHO ENTER MY OFFICE TYPICALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS.

THIS ONE TIME SHE'S BLONDER BLUE EYED.

I DON'T KNOW HOW EFFECTIVEN BE BUT I'M GOING TO TRY.

SHE HAD -- DO YOU THINK OFG BACK TO CALIFORNIA TO SAVER MARRIAGE?

NO.

SHE SAID WHEN I CAME BACK , I FELT LIKE HOME.

I WANTED TO DIG A LITTLE D. LONG STORY SHORT, SHE SAIDY MOM IS HERE.

YOU LANDED HERE FOR A JOB M IS HERE.

MOM WENT TO KAMEHAMEHA SCHL AND SO IS MY GRANDMA.

YOU LANDED IN MY OFFICE SOE CAN TALK ABOUT.

WE DUG DEEP AND IF MY PRAC, WE WENT DOWN THE -- [SPEAKG HAWAIIAN].

GENEALOGY BACK TO PAEA.

SHE'S LIKE, NOBODY -- GRANA AND MOM DIED WHEN THEY LEFD DIDN'T KNOW.

ALL OF THAT TO SAY THERE'S RICHNESS IN THAT AND PEOPLN DIASPORA.

ONE OF THE STORIES WHERE -I SAID YOUR KUPUNA MADE YOU D IN THIS OFFICE SO WE COULDK THIS OUT.

THAT WAS A SUPER BEAUTIFUL MOMENT.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS A W FORE DAY.

>> Yunji: OLIN, HOW DO WE E HAWAI'I A PLACE WHERE HAWAS CAN SURVIVE AND THRIVE.

>> ONE WEEK I COMMITTED TOY EAT LOCAL FOOD.

I WAS PRETTY HUNGRY BUT I COULDN'T EAT FOOD IF IT WAS GROWN HERE.

A LOT OF KULEANA WE CAN TA.

THINGS THAT WE SPENDS OUR E WITH, EVENTS THAT WE GO TOD CELEBRATE.

TO SEE HOW THAT ALIGNS WITT WE THINK OUR VALUES ARE.

I WOULD START WITH MYSELF.

I MADE A COMMITMENT 20 YEAO NEVER TO DRIVE A GAS CAR.

SOME OF THESE THINGS ARE NT EASY TO DO BUT DO THEM WE .

>> Yunji: RICK, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?

>> I GUESS WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE THEIR WAY BK HERE IF THEY CAN, THEY SHOO SO.

AND TO WHAT OLIN WAS SAYING ABOUT ONLY EATING FOOD THAS LOCAL AND HAWAI'I, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNIR SHOULD BE AGRICULTURE IN HAWAI'I.

THINGS THAT ARE GROWN AND S HERE.

HAWAI'I FOR YEARS HAS BEENA PLACE OF AGRICULTURE BUT IS EXPORT THE OUT OF HAWAI'I.

23 WEIF WE CAN FIND OPPORTO FEED OURSELVES AND USE THAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO BRIG PEOPLE BACK FOR LABOR FORCR KIND OF, YOU KNOW, NEW WAYF GROWING THINGS THAT THEY MY HAVE PICKED IN THE DIASPORO BRING BACK HERE.

THAT'S A BIG MARKET THAT'SE OPEN.

WHAT MAKES IT DEF IS -- DIT IS THE LOST OF LAND.

BUT TO ALSO KIND OF BUILD N THAT, THERE'S A LOT OF PRAS THAT PEOPLE MAY HAVE PICKEP THAT WE COULD ALSO BENEFITM HERE.

I WORK IN CONSTRUCTION.

I WORK IN LANDSCAPING.

I DO A BURGEON BUNCH OF TH.

IN ONE SENSE IS BAD BUT ATE SAME TIME, THERE'S A LOT OF SKILLED LABORERS THAT IT PS WELL TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

BUT DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.

AGRICULTURE IS SOME PLACE E NEED TO FOCUS ONJ WE HAVE T FIVE MINUTES LEFT.

I DON'T WANT TO END ON A TC THAT IT'S OPEN TOWN HALL.

MALIA, HOW MUCH HAWAIIAN DS ONE NEED TO BE CONSIDERED A NATIVE HAWAIIAN?

BLOOD QUANTUM IS A WHOLE OR ISSUE.

BRIEFLY TO THIS CALLER'S QUESTION, HOW MUCH HAWAIIAS ONE NEED TO BE CONSIDERED E HAWAIIAN?

>> ONE FINGERNAIL IS GOOD ENOUGH.

[LAUGHTER] >> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR KEEPING IT SHORT AND SWEET.

LANDON?

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

>> I AGREE.

IT COMES DOWN TO WHAT IS YR GENEALOGICAL RELATIONSHIP O HAWAIIAN IDENTITY.

AND IF YOU HAVE THAT POHAK, THAT PILLAR AS A PART OF YR KAHUA, YOUR FOUNDATION, THS AN INTEGRAL AND PROUD PIECF YOUR HERITAGE.

>> Yunji: HI'IAKA, I'M KUR CURIOUS.

FEELS LIKE THE CALLER IS A, WHAT DOES ONE NEED TO CALL THEMSELVES HAWAIIAN?

>> I'M GLAD THEY BROW UP P. WORKING IN THE LOI TAUGHT E BUILDING IS THAT WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT SIZE POHAKUS.

MY CHAT CLASS MATES THEY'RT HAWAIIAN.

I GO TO A HONOLULU CHARTER SCHOOL BUT THEY'RE THE MOST HAWAIIAN PEOPLE I'VE EVER .

WE HAVE OUR KULEANA.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE BIG VOICE, SOME PEOPLE HAVE SMALL VOIS BUT THEY'RE IMPORTANT.

SEND YOUR KIDS TO HAWAIIAN CHARTER SCHOOL.

PUT THEM IN KAAPUNI.

YOU'RE CONSTANTLY BEING TOD BEING HAWAIIAN IS AMAZING.

I NEVER EXPERIENCED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

A LOT OF PEOPLE STANDING HE HELPED.

RICK BARBOZA.

I'VE LEARNED ALL ABOUT NATE HAWAIIAN PLANTS.

THEY HELPED OUR SCHOOL IN O MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.

YEAH.

IT STARTS WITH US KEIKI.

IF YOU GUYS CAN HELP FORGES INTO THE PEOPLE THAT WE'REG TO BECOME AND GIVE US THESE TOOLS NOW, THEN HOPEFULLY N FLIP THE SCREEN AND MAKE SE THAT OUR FUTURE IS SECUREDE IF HAWAI'I.

>> Yunji: HAA, HOW DO YOU ANSWER THIS?

HOW MUCH HAWAIIAN DOES ONED TO BE CONSIDERED HAWAIIAN?

>> IF IF YOU HAVE KUPUNA.

>> Yunji: PAIGE?

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS.

>> I'M SORRY, I'M NOT A DO.

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK LANDON TO RIGHT THIS PRESCRIPTION.

PEACHPEOPLE GROW UP QUESTI.

I NEVER QUESTIONING THAT.

I'M HAWAIIAN AND JAPANESE D THAT IS ME.

I HOPE YOU FIND YOUR CONNEN WITH YOUR ONE KUPUNA, ONE TOENAIL AND EYELASH.

>> Yunji: IT'S BEAUTIFUL IN ALL OUR CONVERSATION TONIGI FEEL A WELCOMING AND CALL O ACTION ON SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO SAY COME JOIN US.

WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF TIME.

ABOUT A MINUTE LEFT.

KEPA, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO TS CALLER?

>> WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE SAI.

ALSO, HAVE ALOHA FOR HAWAI.

RIGHT.

IF YOU HAVE ALOHA FOR HAWAI AND YOU GET ONE KUPUNA, YOE HAWAIIAN ENOUGH.

THAT'S ALL IT IS.

AND ULTIMATELY WHAT IT COMS DOWN TO, ONCE YOU'RE SOLIDN THAT WE CAN WORK ON EVERYTG ELSE.

EVERYTHING ELSE WE CAN STAO ADDRESS THE BIGGER ISSUES,.

>> Yunji: OKAY.

THANK YOU ALL TONIGHT.

I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THU SHARED.

MAHALO IT OUR GUESTS AND YT HOME FOR SHAKING YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

CLEARLY, A THRIVING HAWAI'I DEPENDS ON NATIVE HAWAIIANS HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY ANDR TO SHAPE WHAT COMES NEXT.

JOIN US NEXT THURSDAY AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR GENERAL ELECTION COVERAGE ON INSIGN PBS HAWAI'I WITH THE CANDIS FOR KAUA'I MAYOR.

I'M YUNJI DE NIES.

UNTIL NEXT TIME.

ALOHA.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

GOOD NIGHT.

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