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Hawaiian Language at First Friday

preservehawaii — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:40:58 +0000

This Friday, October 2, at Aliʻi Fishpond will be Ka Honua Momona’s first First Friday! The goal is to provide a safe space to explore Hawaiian language with family and friends. This Friday, they’ll be playing cards: learning basic sentence structures, numbers, colors, and suits. No previous experience necessary—but once the evening begins, they ask that everyone refrain from speaking anything but Hawaiian. For more information, email kahonuamomona@gmail.com or call (808) 553-8353.

Uncle Mervin and Uncle Herbert (right)

Last week, Ka Honua Momona held a kupuna cookout at Uncle Herbert’s hale, with Aliʻi Fishpond in the distance—the menu was Uncle’s delicious homemade fish soup and poke. About a dozen kupuna joined in for lunch while sharing their beautiful moʻolelo (stories) about learning to gather limu and fish from their own kupuna. Another cookout is in the works for this fall …

Nose Flute Workshop at Aliʻi Fishpond

preservehawaii — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:40:42 +0000

Ka Honua Momona hosts lots of great activities at Aliʻi Fishpond—this August, Uncle Calvin Hoe brought out a group of students from Hakipuʻu Learning Center for a bamboo workshop. Uncle Cal taught everyone an oli, a hula, and how to make bamboo implements, like the nose flutes seen here. There were about 40 participants, and everyone who made a nose flute was able to take it home with them that day. Uncle Cal’s brother, Uncle Herbert (who runs KHMI’s Ai Pono program), made everyone a yummy, healthy lunch from Molokaʻi products.

Community Workday with Ka Honua Momona

preservehawaii — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:49:57 +0000

This Saturday, September 19, is the next Community Workday with Ka Honua Momona. And there’ll be special guests! Marion Ano, Uncle Wally Ito, and Uncle Henry Chang Wo …

Last week, they hosted Molokaʻi High’s immersion school, O Hina i Ka Malama. The students helped take water quality samples, collected different types of limu (seaweed), moved silt around in the pond, pulled some of the smaller mangrove, and explored the pond and mauka (toward the mountain) of the pond.

Come out and join them at the fishpond this Saturday! For more information, email kahonuamomona@gmail.com or call 808.553.8353.

Spotlight: Ka Honua Momona

preservehawaii — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:33:14 +0000

Ka Honua Momona is a grassroots effort to manage two ancient loko iʻa (fishponds) on Molokaʻi—a tiny island that harbors more coastal fishponds than anywhere in Hawaiʻi. Led by kupuna lawaiʻa (elder fisherman) Mervin Dudoit, their volunteers remove invasive species from the ponds and help rebuild its massive rock walls.

Stay tuned for details about their upcoming community workday, September 19!