Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Aina, and Ea

Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Aina, and EaRecovering Knaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawaii Hawaiian aloha ina is often described in Western political termsnationalism, nationhood, even patriotism. In Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio centers in on the personal and embodied articulations of aloha ina to detangle it from the effects of colonialism and occupation. Working at the intersections of Hawaiian

Angela fights the project

and the numerous maps

Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants

on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota

Every decision we make ripples out

But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism

baby is introduced to both the ancestral language of Mi'kmaki and to Mi'kmaw culture and legend

Now he has broadened this labor by compiling Anishinaubae Thesaurus

Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders

Mother Earth--we come from her

Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images

and sly humor masked by sorrow