A year ago my mo'opuna planted sweet potatoes at Bishop Museum and today we got to visit the patch infront of the Dinosaur exhibit. A Hawaiian Homestead Matriarch in awe at the foundation of our Na Kupuna dreams of the 70s and the 80s. To teach, to grow, and to pray.
Shantel and I took our na mo'opuna to the planetarium to learn about navigation and our stars in the April night sky. We then went to Pokai Bay to share with our mo'opuna star gazing and apply what we learned earlier in the day.
At Rest Camp a military installation are two banks filled with unknown 'iwi' and we took our moopuna to this bank where are ancient bones are resting. Grandmothers and grandchildren knelt before this crypt and said our prayers.
Our Hawaiian Homestead babies need to learn the truth about the Western culture and apply our Hawaiian values to its daily activities.
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I grew up on Hawaiian Homestead and their isn't much to discuss on the life style we were forced to live. I wish I could sit on this posting and share the unchoices we had to live by. Not just as children, but our parents too. Outside people looked down on the homestead children, or we were exploited for their usage.
Todya, we the matriarch of DHHL stand firm in our voices as to what is the future of our mo'opuna?