Ua hala ua kanaka nei he haku mele, he mea kākau, he mea noiʻi, a he kumu ma Honolulu i ka piha ʻana o ka makahiki he 71 iā ia.

ʻO nā ʻeka he kanawalu e lilo ana iā Hawaiian Homes Land Trust, he kūpono nō paha ia no nā hale noho loa ma lalo o ke kānāwai a ka ʻĀhaʻōlelo Lāhui i ʻāpono aku ai ma ka makahiki 1995. 

I ke kaulana ʻana aʻe o nā polokalamu kaiapuni ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, e mau ana naʻe ka pilikia o ka nele ʻana i moʻohaʻawina kūlike ʻole.

Ua hoʻokumu mai hoʻi paha ka maʻi ahulau COVID-19 he mau ālaina i ʻike ʻole ʻia ma mua aʻe, he minamina maoli naʻe ke loaʻa ʻole pū mai he mau manawa e makepono ai auaneʻi.

Ke māhuahua aʻe nei ka nui o nā kaʻa uila a he manaʻo ko nā alakaʻi o ka mokuʻāina e pau liʻiliʻi nā kaʻa wahie. Wahi a nā kamaʻāina kūʻai kaʻa, he pākela ka wikiwiki o ko lākou holomua.

Mai ke Kaua o ka makahiki 1812 a hiki i ke Kaua o Iraq a me Afghanistan, e komo ana nō nā kānaka maoli i nā kaʻa kaua ma ka ʻaoʻao o ʻAmelika.

He mau hopena ʻino ko ka hoʻomaʻi kēpau no nā keiki, no laila he koʻikoʻi ka hōʻike ʻana ma nā pae hiki mua.

ʻAʻole loa ʻo Hawaiʻi e lilo ana he wahi nāna e hoʻoulu nui i ka huika a laiki paha, he nui lehulehu naʻe nā mea ʻē aʻe e kanu kūloko ʻia.

ʻO nā alaina e ʻāpuʻepuʻe ai ka loaʻa ʻana o ka lāʻau koʻokoʻo, ʻo ko ka mokuʻāina ʻano e wae ana i ka poʻe i noa iā lākou ka lāʻau, ʻo ke kānalua i ka lāʻau, nā hemahema ʻenehana a ʻōlelo hoʻi, wahi a nā luna o ka mokuʻāina.

He hihia naʻe ka manaʻo, ʻoiai ʻaʻole kākoʻo kekahi o ka lāhui i ke kūkulu ʻana i aupuni hou i loko o ke aupuni ʻAmelika.