Hale Makua’s United Nations Address: The Meaning of Aloha

Hale Makua’s United Nations Address: The Meaning of Aloha

Hale Makua: The Meaning of Aloha—1993 Greetings to all of you … Distinguished members of the United Nations, and my fellow indigenous peoples in the community of man—aloha. In Hawai’i, and throughout the Polynesian family within the Pacific, “Aloha” is a word used to...
The Kahuna

The Kahuna

In the Fall of 1996, Jill and I were drawn into connection with a Hawaiian elder named Hale Kealohalani Makua. Through his mother’s lineage, this kahuna wisdomkeeper was a seventh generation descendent of King Kamehameha and his third wife Kahaku Ha’a Koi Wahine Pi’o....