ʻAha Pūnana Leo ʻAha Pūnana Leo grew out of a discussion between a small group of language teachers and families who wanted their children to be educated in the Hawaiian language. They went to the most progressive preschool programs to find out what made the program work. The ʻAha Pūnana Leo is often said to have the most developed set of Native American language revitalization programs in the United States.

ʻAha Pūnana Leo is now offering online Hawaiian Language classes through its Niuolahiki program.


Aloha Festival The 56 year-old Aloha Festival is Hawaiʻi's largest festival and the only statewide celebration in the United States. What is known today as the Aloha Festivals was created in 1946, as Aloha Week - a cultural celebration of Hawaiʻi's music, dance and history intended to preserve our unique traditions.


Alu Like Alu Like has a comprehensive range of services and activities to fill identified needs in the Native Hawaiian community, including community economic development, business assistance, employment preparation, training, library services, and specialized services to youth and elders.


Archives Division Home Page The Archives Division administers the executive branch's archives and records management programs under the direction of the State Comptroller. The functions of the programs are mandated by Chapter 94, Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes. The Division is organized into two branches, the Historical Records Branch and the Records Management Branch.

The Archives Division also hosts an online electronic version of the Māhele Book, documenting the division of lands between Kamehameha III, the chiefs, and the konohiki.


Aloha United Way's Ask 2000
If you have questions about local programs and services that fit you or your family's needs, tracking down the answers can prove a challenge. Ask the Aloha United Way.


Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs is a confederation of forty-seven (47) Hawaiian Civic Clubs located throughout the State of Hawaiʻi and in the States of Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. They are the oldest community based grass roots Hawaiian organization in Hawaiʻi, having been formed in 1918 by the then non-voting Delegate to the United States Congress Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole. This is the only Hawaiian organization to have branch clubs outside the State of Hawaiʻi.


Bishop Museum The Museum's mission and vision is to record, preserve and tell the stories of Hawai`i and the Pacific, inspiring our guests to embrace and experience our natural and cultural world. The site includes a searchable indexes of the Bishop Museum's Library and its Archives, a searchable database of cultural objects from Nihoa and Mokumanamana (Necker), an online ethnobotany database, and a Zooarchaeology Collection database, searchable by order, family, genus and species, common and local names. The Bishop Museum's Ethnology Collection includes more than 70,000 objects from throughout the Pacific region.

The Blount Report
The Blount Report is part of the House Foreign Relations Committee Report of 1894, officially titled "Affairs in Hawaiʻi." It was prepared by Representative James Blount, who was sent by President Grover Cleveland to assess conditions in Hawaii after the Hawaiian Republic had been forcibly taken over by the "Committee of Safety," i.e. the American Sugar Planters.


The "Canoe Plants" of Ancient Hawaiʻi Today's guide to yesterday's life-sustaining plants. Identification, descriptions, propagation methods, cultural uses and medicinal uses.


US Census Bureau facts on Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander Populations


The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) is a national, member-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to capacity building and providing support services to agencies and organizations focused primarily on Native communities in Hawaii and the Pacific.


County Of Hawaiʻi Home Page


Digital Archives The Digital Archive Collection at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library is a collection of historical and cultural material in digital form, made accessible via the World Wide Web. This page includes material from the Jean Charlot Collection, archives related to Hawaiian Culture and History and the Pacific as well as Grant applications, reports and Web statistics related to specific digital imaging projects.


eHawaii.gov Home page of the State of Hawai`i Government. With the creation of eHawaii.Gov, the State is taking an orchestrated, forward-thinking and coordinated approach to maximizing both the capabilities of the Internet and the collective resources of the State.


Environment Hawai`i provides news on environmental issues on Hawai`i


Hale Kuamo'o Hawaiian Language Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

The Hawai`i Biological Survey site houses Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Databases, Entomology Databases, Botany Databases, Mollusk Databases, Vertebrate Databases, Fish Databases, and Marine Invertebrates Databases.

HAWAIIAN COLLECTION The Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa Library is a comprehensive collection of retrospective and current materials pertaining to Hawai`i. There are more than 133,500 volumes relating to Hawaiian history, culture, art, and science as well as microfilm holdings of over 12,000 reels and more than 2,000 serial subscriptions. All formats, periodicals, languages, and levels of treatment are collected. The collection's strength is the 20th century and includes numerous unpublished reports and papers that are unique to the collection. The Hawaiian audiovisual collection includes over 4,500 videotapes and over 3,000 sound recordings. The Hawaiian Collection is part of Special Collections and is housed on the fifth floor of Hamilton Library, and the Hawaiian audiovisual collection is housed in the Wong Audiovisual Center at Sinclair Library.


Hawaiian Historical Society The Hawaiian Historical Society, founded in 1892, is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region and to publishing scholarly research on Hawaiian and Pacific history.


Hawaiian Language Newspapers Hawaiian Language Newspapers from the Digital Archive Collections at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library, a collection of historical and cultural material in digital form, made accessible via the World Wide Web.


Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives presented for perpetuation of the Hawaiian culture. Additions, pictures, suggestions, corrections, information on composers, history of songs or anecdotes on compositions are welcome.


Hawaiian Native Plants A listing of Hawaiian Native Plant Genera from the University of Hawaii Botany Department.

Hawaiian Nūpepa Collection This is a collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Hawaiian audience between 1834 and 1948. The newspapers can be searched (full text), browsed (by title), or accessed by date. This collection is the product of the Hawaiian Language Newspapers Project, operated by Alu Like, Inc., through its Native Hawaiian Library and its Hawaiian Language Legacy Program.


Hawai`i Department of Health The mission of the Department of Health is to protect and improve the health and environment for all people in Hawai`i, the website is continually updated with the latest health advisorys for the te State of Hawaii. The Vital Records Division houses online Records including birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates, Marriage Licenses, and Reciprocal Beneficiary Relationships.


Hawaiʻi Community College Hawaiʻi Community College, offers a range of career, technical and academic programs. Most of these "hands-on" programs offer a practical education and valuable skills base.


Hawaiʻi Department Of Education From here, you can access many of the educational resources available, links to the various schools and offices, the Board of Education, current state legislation (while in session), and get more information about the Standards Based Reform.

Hawaiʻi Independant and Soveriegn "The cause of Hawaiʻi and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station."


Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection includes Genealogical Indexes, Indexes to Marriage Records, 1826-1929, Indexes to Divorce Case Files, 1848-1915, Indexes to Probates, 1847-1917, Index to Wills, 1852-1916, Indexes to Citizenship Records, Naturalization, 1844-1894; Denization, 1846-1898; and Passports, 1845-1874, Government Office Holders, Tax Assessment and Collection Ledgers sections of Hamakua and Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Passenger Manifest Index, 1843-1900 sections of the Portuguese Passenger Manifest Index, Mahele Book, and World War I Service Records.


Hawaii State GenWeb Project In June 1996, a group of genealogists created the US GenWeb Project, based on the Kentucky GenWeb Project organized earlier that spring. In the same month, the US GenWeb Archives were created as the centralized online data library of the project. Volunteers were found to coordinate and maintain state and county GenWeb webpages, containing queries, lookup resources, surname registries, and other tools. Other volunteers worked on obtaining and managing the online data files submitted to the project. The Hawaii GenWeb Project and the Hawaii GenWeb Archives are the Hawaii branches of these national efforts.

The Hawaii State Legislature website hosts information regarding current Bills and Documents, the Hawai`i Revised Statutes, House and Senate membership, hearing notices, and Legislative special studies.

Hawaiʻi State Public Library System Guide to Resources and Services This is a guide to the services and collections in Hawaiʻi's public libraries. You can obtain a listing of the 50 libraries in the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System as well as their hours, addresses and phone numbers, collection strengths, and programs. The Hawaiʻi State Public Library System's Home Page is also a jumping off point to many informative, amazing, and often entertaining Internet sites in Hawaiʻi and around the world. Take a look at the Reference Shelf for directory information, toll-free numbers, area and zip codes, time zones, dictionaries, etc.


Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen
Written By Queen Liliuokalani in 1898, the full text of the work can be found here.


Hawai`i Tribune Herald, Hilo's local paper


Hawaiʻi Weather Current Hawaiʻi weather conditions courtesy of the University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology.


Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, displays the results of 70 million years of volcanism, migration, and evolution -- processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture. The park encompasses diverse environments that range from sea level to the summit of the earth's most massive volcano, Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet.


Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
The digging of a cellar excavation on the north rim of Kilauea caldera in February 1912 marked the beginning of permanent facilities for what was to become the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). The Observatory was largely the creation of Thomas A. Jaggar (1871-1953), then a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) professor, who recognized the advantages, for the study of volcanism, of onsite facilities at an active volcano


Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation works to preserve Hawaiʻi's unique architectural and cultural heritage.


Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai`i Nei (Group Caring For the Ancestors of Hawai`i) is a Native Hawaiian Organization dedicated to the proper treatment of ancestral Native Hawaiians. Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai`i Nei was born December 1988 from the kaumaha (heaviness) and aokanaka (enlightenment) caused by the archaeological disinterment of over 1,100 ancestral Native Hawaiians from Honokahua, Maui.


ʻIolani Palace ʻIolani Palace was the official residence of King Kalākaua and his Queen, Kapiʻolani, from 1882 until the King's death in 1891. The Palace also served as official residence for Kalākaua's sister and successor, Queen Liliʻuokalani, until the Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown in 1893. This National Historic Landmark is the only state residence of royalty in the United States.


Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at UHH.


Kāhea, the Hawaiʻi-Environmental Alliance KAHEA is an alliance of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) cultural practitioners, environmental activists and others concerned with protecting customary and traditional rights and our fragile environment.


Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) manages the Kaho`olawe Island Reserve while it is held in trust for a future Native Hawaiian sovereign entity. The KIRC uses the federal funds designated for State responsibilities in the restoration effort. The KIRC is administratively attached to the State Department of Land and Natural Resources.


Kamehameha Schools Kamehameha Schools, a dynamic and nurturing learning community committed to educational excellence. A statewide educational system comprising three campuses on three islands and more than 30 preschool sites throughout the state of Hawaiʻi. Nearly 4,900 preschool through grade 12 students of Hawaiian ancestry are currently enrolled.

Kamehameha schools is offering distance learning opportunities to those interested


Ka`iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center is another Kamehameha Schools effort hosting mo`olelo, oral histories, a lot of ethnographic literature.

The Kumulipo A Hawaiian Creation Chant translated with commentary by Martha Warren Beckwith. Contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, and Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary.


Lyman Museum The Lyman Museum building next door to the Lyman Mission House, houses a superb collection of artifacts, fine art, and natural history specimens as well as archives and library, special exhibitions and a gift shop. Visitors touring the two facilities can see the old Mission House and life as it was 150 years ago, as well as state-of-the-art, new exhibits on many aspects of Hawaiian natural history and culture. A rare and well-rounded view of the real Hawaiʻi, as it was, as it is today, and where it may be in years to come.


Lyon Arboretum The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum coordinates, facilitates, and executes research, instruction, and service activities that utilize its collections and resources. Its major emphases are tropical plants, native Hawaiian plants, conservation biology, and Hawaiian ethnobotany.


Maui High Performance Computing Center MHPCC is an Air Force Research Laboratory Center managed by the University of Hawaiʻi. Ranked as one of the top twenty supercomputer sites in the world, MHPCC provides world-class, parallel computing capability to the research, science, and warfighter communities.


Nahenahe.net Keola Donaghy's Hawaiian music weblog.


Nā Pua Noʻeau Center for Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children was established at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1989 for the purpose of increasing educational enrichment opportunities for Hawaiian children in grades Kindergarten - 12th. Outreach centers were later established on the islands of Maui, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokai, Lanaʻi and the West side of the Island of Hawaiʻi to expand activities throughout the State of Hawaiʻi.


Native Hawaiian Advisory Council
NHAC, as the culmination of the first phase of our Kuleana Waiwai Like project, helped to organize the ʻAha Hoʻopuka Pono - Hawaiʻi Double-Bottom Line Investing Summit, in Honolulu, February 26-28, 2001.


The Native Hawaiian Education Association (NHEA) is a private non-profit organization of Native Hawaiian educators. The organization was started in 1998 with its first Convention on the island of Maui. Adapted after the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), NHEA facilitates a network of Hawaiian educators to attend to the various educational issues which challenge the Hawaiian population and is designed to be a self-sustaining umbrella organization for Hawaiian education and Hawaiian educators.

NOAA National Weather Service Forecast for Hawai`i


OHA The mission of OHA is to mālama (protect) Hawai`i's people and environmental resources and OHA's assets, toward ensuring the perpetuation of the culture, the enhancement of lifestyle and the protection of entitlements of Native Hawaiians, while enabling the building of a strong and healthy Hawaiian people and nation, recognized nationally and internationally. OHA's Native Hawaiian Data Book is available for download and perusal on the web. Contains statistics about the health, population, housing, land, income, and education of the


Pacific Tsunami Museum The Pacific Tsunami Museum promotes public tsunami education for the people of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Region. The museum will also preserve the social and cultural history of Hawaiʻi and promote economic development on the island of Hawaiʻi as well as statewide. The museum will serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives in past tsunami events.


Panaʻewa Rainforest Zoo The Panaʻewa Zoo is located in Hilo, on the Island of Hawaiʻi.


Papahānaumokuākea The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is the single largest conservation area under the U.S. flag, and one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. It encompasses 139,797 square miles of the Pacific Ocean (105,564 square nautical miles) - an area larger than all the country's national parks combined


Polynesian Voyaging Society The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) was founded in 1973 to research how Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled nearly every inhabitable island in the Pacific Ocean before European explorers arrived in the 16th century.


Protect Kaho`olawe `Ohana The Protect Kaho`olawe `Ohana is a grassroots organization dedicated to the island of Kaho`olawe and the prinicples of Aloha `Aina throughout Hawai`i nei.


The Royal Hawaiian Band, an agency of the City and County of Honolulu. Founded in 1836 by King Kamehameha III, the band is the only full-time municipal band in the United States today. With cultural roots dating back to the time of the Hawaiian monarchy, the mission of the Royal Hawaiian Band is to promote and foster music, both current and historic, to preserve the Hawaiian musical culture, inspire young musicians and ultimately enrich the lives of the people and visitors of Hawai`

Sacred texts of the Pacific
Public domain books about Pacific Cultures on-line. Includes:


The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History provides a flexible query tool to access information on Hawaiian vascular plants from a taxonomic or geographical perspective at a variety of levels of detail. Queries can result in a simple checklist with island distribution to information on names, types, identifying characteristics, and images (illustrations and photographs). Currently, the available databases can supply checklists of Hawaiian flora and type information for names based on Hawaiian collections. The present checklist database consists of 151 families, 777 genera, and 2,325 taxa of flowering plants and 27 families, 72 genera, and 214 taxa of ferns and related groups.


State Historic Preservation Division The State Historic Preservation Division of the DLNR works to preserve and sustain reminders of earlier times which link the past to the present.


The Hawaiian Kingdom Website of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government presently operating within the occupied State of the Hawaiian Islands.


Ulukau - The Hawaiian Electronic Library

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Homepage for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.


University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Homepage of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

University of Hawai`i System Community Colleges
Hawai`i Community College
Honolulu Community College
Kapi`olani Community College
Kaua'i Community College
Leeward Community College
Maui Community College
Windward Community College


Waikiki Aquarium Located next to a living coral reef, the award winning Waikiki Aquarium brings guests face-to-fin with colorful tropical fish, reef sharks, living corals, endangered Hawaiian monk seals, sea jellies, squid, octopus and more