Workbook
For Native Hawaiian Families
A Workbook on Aloha, Colonization, and What It Means to Build a Life on Land That Has Always Been Yours
This land is yours. This is where you write down what you are building on it.
Native Hawaiian families navigating the intersection of aloha (love/compassion), Hawaiian cultural identity, and the ongoing realities of colonization in their homeland. Families trying to name what it means to be Hawaiian — not in tradition but in daily life and in what they pass down to the next generation.
The Name It First Experience
Your family has always been here. The land is yours — not in the legal sense that colonization contested, but in the sense that your people have always known it. What it means to be Hawaiian, to carry aloha, to practice ʻohana (family), and to raise the next generation with that knowledge intact is one of the most important questions your family can answer together. This workbook does not ask your family to fight colonization on its pages. It asks you to name — together and on paper — what Hawaiian identity means in your specific household, what you are carrying on purpose, and what you are choosing to pass down. Grounded in Racial Identity Development theory (Cross, Helms), Acculturation Theory (Berry), Intersectionality (Crenshaw), tribal sovereignty frameworks, and research on Native Hawaiian identity and cultural revitalization, this workbook gives your family a structure for the conversation. The work is yours to do together. This is where you write it down. You leave with The Native Hawaiian Families Agreement.
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Sample questions
- What has being Native Hawaiian given you — the aloha, the connection to 'āina, the sense of identity that comes from a people and a place with a specific and ongoing story?
- What does navigating life on land that has always been yours but that colonization has complicated mean to you — and how does that shape how you move through the world?
- What would The Native Hawaiian Family Record say — clearly and from your experience — about what this identity carries, what it costs, and what you are building on the foundation of who you come from?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model applied to Native Hawaiian identity / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation frameworks applied to indigenous context / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality applied to race, colonization, and gender / tribal sovereignty frameworks applied to Hawaiian sovereignty movement / Kame'eleihiwa (1992) Native Land and Foreign Desires on Hawaiian land and sovereignty / Trask (1993) From a Native Daughter on Hawaiian sovereignty and identity politics / Kanahele (1986) Ku Kanaka Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian Values on Hawaiian cultural frameworks / cultural frameworks of aloha, ʻohana, mālama ʻāina (caring for the land), and kapu / Hawaiian language revitalization (McCarty, 2011 / Hinton, 2001) / OHA (Office of Hawaiian Affairs) cultural programming research / Kauanui (2008) Hawaiian Blood on blood quantum and identity / Native Hawaiian identity in diaspora (Tengan, 2008).
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