Mele Kalikimaka!
This week we feature a story about giving.
Huakaʻi, Travel
Hawaiian language newspapers often featured travel descriptions, whether it be a visit within a single island, or to another island, or to lands far across the sea.
Mele, Poetic Compositions
Hawaiian language newspapers, were a place to share and preserve old and new mele.
Sustainability Champion: Chris Hobbs
Sustainability Champion: Chris Hobbs Back to Sustainability Blogs Cover Image: Beach Cleanup- Chris helping out at Surfrider Oahu park cleanup at Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu. Image: Chris rock climbing. Who are you, what do you do at Bishop Museum, and how did you get here? My name is Christopher Hobbs and I’m the Curator […]
Latest News
Hawaiian language newspapers, like any other newspaper, published the latest news of the day.
Moʻolelo and Kaʻao
Hawaiian language newspapers were a place for the safekeeping of traditional stories.
Legendary Places
Hawaiian language newspapers were a place to talk about wahi pana or legendary places. Many of these places have been covered over and lost to time, but their stories remain, thanks to the foresight of the many contributors to the newspapers.
A Place to Share One’s Grief
Hawaiian language newspapers had a readership that stretched across the archipelago from Hawaiʻi Island of Keawe to Niʻihau that snatched away the sun. People were subscribing to the newspapers even father away. Placing an announcement in the paper was the most efficient way to inform family and friends of the death of a loved one.
Traditional Knowledge
Hawaiian language newspapers were a place for the recording of traditional knowledge: from genealogy, to mele, to place names, to wind and rain names for different lands.
Descriptions of Travels, Near and Far
From the first Hawaiian language newspaper, Ka Lama Hawaii, until the very last, Ka Hoku o Hawaii, there were published countless accounts of travels around these islands as well as to foreign lands across the sea.
