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Moolelo / Stories
KUʻIALUAOPUNA is dedicated to making a lasting impact through education and teaching of the Hawaiian fighting art of Lua. We look to our stories, our history, and ancestral practices as sources of knowledge in the profession of Lua.
Every month we will be sharing stories so that connections can be made with the different cultures in our Pacific family group. These moʻolelo or short stories are told here to inspire our thinking about ourselves. They reveal the thoughts and history of a people.
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Kuialuaopuna
Mar 14, 202419 min read
Lawai'a
Kii: National Wild Life Federation MARGARET TITCOMB with the collaboration of MARY KAWENA PUKUI NATIVE USE OF FISH IN HAWAII University...
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Kuialuaopuna
Mar 11, 202415 min read
Kia Manu
Stories of Life in Old Hawaiʻi Caroline Curtis illustrated by Oliver C. Kinney Kamehameha Schools Press Honolulu, 1998 pgs. 125-140 Kii:...
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Kuialuaopuna
Mar 7, 202416 min read
Pā
Kii: Forest and Kim Starr Stories of Life in Old Hawaiʻi Caroline Curtis Kamehameha Schools Press Honolulu 1998 pgs. 101-115 The Hula ...
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Kuialuaopuna
Feb 22, 202420 min read
Cook's Visit to Hawaii
Kii: Herb Kawainui Kane Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Revised Edition) SAMUEL M. KAMAKAU KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS PRESS • HONOLULU, 1992 pgs. 92-104...
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Kuialuaopuna
Feb 16, 202418 min read
Kapi'olani
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii Samuel Kamakau KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS PRESS • HONOLULU Revised Edition Copyright © 1992 Pgs 379-385 CHAPTER XXIX...
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Kuialuaopuna
Jan 18, 20244 min read
Taiaha
A WINDOW INTO TE AO MĀORI: THE TAIAHA Writer: Tama Ale Samoa Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts is brought to you by the energetic...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 26, 20234 min read
Battle of Hingakaka
WAR HISTORY ONLINE by, Yulia.Dzhak Jun 4, 2016 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/about-us The Maori, originally Polynesians, who settled...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 25, 20235 min read
THE SWORDSMAN IN THE SWAMP
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection HERO STORIES OF NEW ZEALAND https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowHero-t1-body-d10.html...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 17, 202313 min read
Na akua li'i
Kii: David Boynton HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY Martha Beckwith Copyright © 1970 University of Hawaiʻi Press pgs 81-95 THE great gods each had his...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 12, 202316 min read
Ahia Chief of Puna
Kii: Ku'ialuaopuna Ka Hoku o Hawaii Kamehameha and his warrior Kekūhaupi‘o Written in Hawaiian by Reverend Stephen L. Desha Translated by...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 10, 20239 min read
War at Hakalau, Kekuhaupi'o battles Kaihe of Maui.
Kii: Herb Kawainui Kane Ka Hoku o Hawaii Kamehameha and his warrior Kekūhaupi‘o Written in Hawaiian by Reverend Stephen L. Desha...
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Kuialuaopuna
Oct 5, 20235 min read
Lanikaula no Moloka'i
Kii: Ku'ialuaopuna Lanikaula was born at Puko'o, Moloka’i. He lived most of his life in the valley of Hālawa not far from the pool into...
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Kuialuaopuna
Sep 27, 20234 min read
Pua Ma
HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY Martha Beckwith UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS HONOLULU Kii: British Museum Religious practices of Hawaii have is sources...
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Kuialuaopuna
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Chief of Puna Keali'ikuku
Kii: Big Island Guide Title: Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes by: W. D. Westervelt ELLIS PRESS, BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A CONSTABLE & CO.,...
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Kuialuaopuna
Sep 11, 20236 min read
Na Akua o Kamehameha
Photo: Bishop Museum Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Revised Edition) Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani Revised Edition Copyright © 1992 by...
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Kuialuaopuna
Sep 10, 20235 min read
Nuʻuanupaʻahu Chief of Kaʻu, Hawaiʻi
Photo: Kuʻialuaopuna Ruling Chiefs of Hawaiʻi Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Copyright © 1961 Revised Edition Copyright © 1992 by...
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Kuialuaopuna
Aug 25, 20233 min read
Aumakua
This moolelo takes place in Raiatea, at the shoreline right next to marae Tau'aitu, which rests across the marae of Taputapuatea. The...
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Kuialuaopuna
Aug 21, 202316 min read
'Ao Kuewa
The Spirit after death of the In the process of death, the uhane or soul may linger around its place of dwelling and not move on into Po...
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Kuialuaopuna
Aug 7, 202314 min read
Pa'aiea Fish pond
Originally published in Ka Hoku o Hawaii Kamehameha and his warrior Kekūhaupi‘o Written in Hawaiian by Reverend Stephen L. Desha...
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Kuialuaopuna
Aug 4, 202310 min read
Death of Keawema'uhili
Photo: Ku'ialuaopuna Kamehameha and his warrior Kekūhaupi‘o CHALLENGED IN HĀMĀKUA The Wicked Deeds of Keōuakū‘ahu‘ula Originally...
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