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...k. ” The one hundred fifty students of Kanu o ka Aina. . . perpetuate Hawaiian language and culture by practicing native traditions such as kalo (taro) cultivation, outrigger canoe sailing, and traditional Hawaiian protocol. Students of the school participate in project-based inquiry and scientific research efforts including assisting Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum scie...

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..., and environment. Besides the community helpers (doctor, teacher, fire-fighter, police officer), we have presented traditional Hawaiian occupations (taro farmer, cowboy, canoe sailor, throw-net fisherman), modern occupations (news-caster, fighter pilot), artistic occupations (actor, conductor), and a science occupation (botanist). In the end, with lots of help from the p...

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...they even took a spring from its rocky bed and carried it, bundled in ti leaves, down to the lowland so that villagers might have its water for their taro patches. At cock-crow all work must stop for that was menehune law, and a job must be finished in a single night. Men still point to certain walls left unfinished when morning came too quickly....

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...needs to be reached by which — the health of the streams can be improved; the water needs of the kama?aina (native) families for cultivation of kalo (taro) and other crops, and water for domestic purposes can be sustained; and other reasonable uses can be met. It was also the observation of the interviewees, that in their life time, the landscape—noticeably the watershed f...

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...many place names are there or were there in the Hawaiian Islands Even a rough estimate is impossible: a hundred thousand a million Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks and trees that represented deities and ancestors, sites of houses and heiau (places of worship), canoe landings, fishing stations in the sea, resting places in the forests, and the tiniest spots where mira...

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...ro. Pri movado en tiuj tempoj oni eĉ ne povis revi: de unu anko la regis- taro (rusa) rigardadis mal de je ĉia ajn organizita movado, ali anke la p... ... Junularo. Tutmonda Espero. Kvankam TE nomiĝis organo de la kataluna E-is- taro kaj eĉ de jan. 1909 ĝis la apero de „Kataluna E-isto“ en apr. 1910 mem...

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...ruits, pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas, with subsistence crops of yams and taro Major industry: fruit processing, tourism Electric power: 4,750 kW c... ...(1984) Agriculture: coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes; subsistence crops taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, beef cattle... ...rafts) Agriculture: local use citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, taro, beans, pumpkin, coconuts, wild goats, poultry Fishing: plentiful Ma... ... 24 telephones; party line telephone service on the island; radio station at Taro Ground; diesel generator provides electricity Defense Forces Defense... ...riculture: dominated by coconut pro- duction with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas, rice Electric power: 15,000 kW capacity; 30 million kWh pr... ...iculture: largely dominated by coconut and banana production; vanilla beans, taro, yams, sweet potatoes, breadfruit, fruits and vegetables Major indus... ...86) Exports: $7.33 million (1985 est); coconut oil, vanilla, copra, bananas, taro, vanilla beans, fruits and vegetables Imports: $41.36 million (1985 ... ...coa, coffee, some livestock and fish production; subsistence crops of copra, taro, yams Fishing: catch, 2,470 metric tons (1983) Major industries: fis... ...iculture: dominated by coconut pro- duction, with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas Electric power: 1,000 kW capacity; 1 million kWh produced, ...

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...ha?” Surprised, Rick thought the old man’s talents took in such things as taro cards and palm reading. “Oh God no, that’s stuff is considered evil. D...

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... is known as ‘the country without popoi.’ The word popoi serves in different islands to indi- cate the main food of the people: thus, in Hawaii, it im... ...ing; that of Atuona almost in the nature of a miracle. In Atuona, a village planted in a shore-side marsh, the houses standing everywhere inter- mingl... ...d the most valuable fruit- trees prosper. I have walked in one, with equal admiration and surprise, through a forest of huge breadfruits, eating banan... ...ghts of a heavenly brightness. Both are somewhat wider than Fakarava, measuring perhaps (at the widest) a quar- ter of a mile from beach to beach. In ... ...ord from Nakaeia’s mouth the revel ended; Makin became once more an isle of slaves and of teetotalers; and on the mor- row all the population must be ... ...and, plying in his boat, beat the remotest quarters of the isle for provender. He found us pigs—I could not fancy where— no other pigs were visible; h... ...d could give me some idea of the subject of the songs. One was patriotic, and dared Tembinok’ of Apemama, the terror of the group, to an invasion. One... ...ief diversion of the life of Tembinok’. He is not only the sole ruler, he is the sole merchant of his triple kingdom, Apemama, Aranuka, and Kuria, wel... ...s and beseeches the passing foreigner for eye wash. Behind the town the coun- try is diversified; here open, sandy, uneven, and dotted with dwarfish p...

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...ith delight at cocoanut trees, bananas, breadfruit trees, citrons, lemons, taro, &c., with bright tropical colouring thrown over all, lighting up the ... ...asks were to be filled. ‘An excellent dinner was provided: roast fowl with taro, a nutritious root somewhat like potato, rice and jam, bananas and del... ...hn Coleridge Patteson ing, &c.; the boys tend the poultry, cows, cultivate taro, make arrowroot, &c. All of them could read fluently, and all looked h... ... eyes and our hearts. Soon we struck off to the south, and passing through taro plantations, began to as- cend the slopes of the island. As we walked ... ...ful system of irrigation adopted by the natives for the cultivation of the taro plant. Following the course of a small mountain stream, we observed th... ...dfruit trees, cocoa-nut trees, and bananas grow naturally, and the yam and taro cultivations are weeded and tended by the women. They have nothing to ... ...ruz rose on him. The people came out in canoes with quantities of yams and taro, of which they knew the full value; but the numbers were so large that... ...e building another vessel. They went out and foraged for themselves in the taro fields, but they made no friends; they were ship-spirits, with noses t... ... mental, exquisite scenery, famous warm climate, lots of bathing, yams and taro and cocoa-nut enough to make an alderman’s mouth water, and such lovin...

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...e now announced by a humorous orator, who convulsed the audience, introducing singing notes, now on the name of the article, now on the number; six th... ...esented to the King. Then came the turn of Le Alii Tusitala. He would not dance, but he was given—five live hens, four gourds of oil, four fine tapas,... ...nguished themselves by walking through a Fono (council), my mother actually taking up a position between Mataafa and Popo!It was about five when we st... ...nd I set off barefoot, with my trousers over my knees, and a macintosh. Presently I had to take a side path in the bush; missed it; came forth in a gr... ... is too bright to be entertained. To-day we had a ride down to Tanugamanono, and then by the new wood paths. One led us to a beautiful clearing, with ... ...ich a feast commonly concludes; it might be something worse. We made what arrangements we could for my tapa, fans, etc. , as well as for my five pigs,...

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...ed about, like an old woman seeing the children to bed. A basket of baked “taro,” or Indian tur- nip, was brought in, and we were given a piece all ro... ... bread-fruit and palm, and never hin- dered their growing. Close by was a “taro” patch of his which he occasionally visited. Bob seldom disposed of th... ...ed among the shipping touching at Papeetee. There was a small patch of the taro, or Indian turnip, also; another of yams; and in one corner, a thrifty... ...o cut and broil for himself. Baskets of roasted bread-fruit, and plenty of taro pudding; bunches of bananas, and young cocoa-nuts, had also been provi... ... by roasted hemi- spheres of the breadfruit. A large calabash, filled with taro pudding, or poee, followed; and the young dandy, overcom- ing his cust... ...strangers. His guest had just risen from a sumptuous meal of baked pig and taro pudding; and the remnants of the repast were still visible. Two reekin...

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...Yet are they greedy and weak as the swine and the children are. Plant we, then, here at Paea, a garden of excellent fruits; Plant we bananas and kava ...

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...oked food, of fish, of pigs, of pigs for travellers, of pigs for stock, of taro, of taro-tops, of taro- tops for planting, of tools, of flyhooks, of i...

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...has always given a poor account of itself; the first witness to this is Il Taro, afterwards Allesandria, Capua, Genoa, Vaila, Bologna, Mestri.* If, th... ...ur. And although Swiss and Spanish infantry may be con- *The battles of Il Taro, 1495; Alessandria, 1499; Capua, 1501; Genoa, 1507; Vaila, 1509; Bolog...

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... the tobacco and trade stuff. The cocoanuts and bananas were chopped down, the taro gardens uprooted, and the pigs and chickens killed. It taught Fanf... ...rew the wild arrowroot; on stone terraces, filled with soil scrapings, were the taro patches and the melons; and in every open space where the sunshine... ...food for the feast. And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from f... ...at happened, was known and observed. For the fishermen and their women, and the taro growers and the bird catch ers, and the head men, and all Waihee,...