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Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina Cataloging and Public Programming Partnership is dedicated to increased access and preservation of Hawaiʻi’s stories from NMOKA’s moving-image collection. 

Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina Cataloging and Public Programming Partnership is dedicated to increased access and preservation of Hawaiʻi’s stories from NMOKA’s moving-image collection. 

Since 1974, Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, an independent video production team founded by Joan Lander and Puhipau, has been dedicated to perpetuating and documenting the land and people of Hawai‘i.  For over fourty years NMOKA gathered voices and images of traditional/contemporary Hawaiian culture, history, language, art, music, dance, environment, and the politics of independence/sovereignty, leaving a vital ʻŌiwi archive for future generations. In 2020, NMOKA began collaborating with Puʻuhonua Society to continue cataloging, and making accessible this moving-image collection of 8,000 video tapes. 

Since 1974, Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, an independent video production team founded by Joan Lander and Puhipau, has been dedicated to perpetuating and documenting the land and people of Hawai‘i.  For over fourty years NMOKA gathered voices and images of traditional/contemporary Hawaiian culture, history, language, art, music, dance, environment, and the politics of independence/sovereignty, leaving a vital ʻŌiwi archive for future generations. In 2020, NMOKA began collaborating with Puʻuhonua Society to continue cataloging, and making accessible this moving-image collection of 8,000 video tapes. 

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We are currently focused on presenting a screening series around a collection of tapes associated with NMOKA’s documentary Ahupuaʻa, Fishponds and Loʻi. Released in 1992, with producer, Nalani Minton, Ahupuaʻa, Fishponds and Loʻi documents Native Hawaiian systems of land use and resource management across six of the major Hawaiian Islands— O‘ahu, Lāna‘i, Maui, Molokai, Hawai‘i, and Kaua‘i. On each island the team gathered oral histories of kūpuna and kupaʻāina speaking to Hawaiian aquaculture and agriculture practices. By the end of their journey, Joan Lander and Puhipau had recorded over 86 hours of footage. Eventually, this invaluable content was edited down to a 90-minute program. The unedited footage continues to be cared for by Joan, making up a small portion of their collection. Given the vital cultural knowledge recorded in Ahupua‘a, Fishponds and Lo‘i, the Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina Cataloging and Public Programming Partnership is organizing a traveling screening series across ka paeʻāina. It is our hope to bring the ‘ike shared in the tapes back into the communities from which they originated. More to come!

Puʻuhonua Society is a community arts and culture organization committed to Hawaiʻi and its abundant futures. Founded in 1972, the work has been passed down through three generations of Native Hawaiian women.

Puʻuhonua Society is a community arts and culture organization committed to Hawaiʻi and its abundant futures. Founded in 1972, the work has been passed down through three generations of Native Hawaiian women.

Puʻuhonua Society is a community arts and culture organization committed to Hawaiʻi and its abundant futures. Founded in 1972, the work has been passed down through three generations of Native Hawaiian women.