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  Epistomology of Hawaii is the indiginous of our old mindset that makes us who we are and where we are from, in my opinion thats all about cultural beliefs and heritage of our ancesters who came before us. Manulani goes on too describe our words n beliefs in a translation of english, which basically doesnt do the Hawaiian meanings and feelings justice. Not to quote her word for word which will be an act of plagerism, but to put it simply as I can it was it has to do about the quality of life to the aina, malama aina, Body, mind spirit which all of us kanakas was taught at tutus knees (maybe not all, I was born in 1963 as why) when we were keikis.  Like kumu Kaeo said, Hawaiians no believe in the one man show, it is about the whole n the benefits one can contribute to the community. We as kanaka maoli had it going on back in the day before the europians came and almost totally destroyed our culture, if it wasnt for the few kanaka maolis who refused to give up thier cultural beliefs we would not have a Hawaiian culture today, mahalo to those kapunas.  One main interesting fact Dr. Manulani brought up was that we were never a colonized land, but one of occupation, capitalism at its highest form. In the early part of my course in Modern Issues in Hawaii, I remember a lecture that our last manarch Liliuokalani at the time of the overthrow of our nation never surrendered, but yeilded until the time that the nation was returned to the Hawaiian people, what happened to the strenght that our kapunas had, what happened to our people that made us what we are today, auwe.