Hawaiʻi - Place Names: General Sources

Available online from Ulukau.

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Available online from Ulukau.

Earlier editions: 1986 and 1971 (includes some material that is not in later editions).

Comprehensive environmental history of Hawai'i

Overview of ecology with annotated bibliography; good overall reference book that gives background information

General natural history information about Hawaiʻi

Overview of Hawaiʻi's ecosystems and conservation issues surrounding them, includes useful references.

"Building on two decades of interviews with more than sixty Hawaiian elders, leaders, and fishermen and women, Kaiāulu shares their stories of enduring community efforts to perpetuate kuleana, often translated to mean “rights and responsibilities.” Community actions extend kuleana to include nurturing respectful relationships with resources, guarding and cultivating fishing spots, perpetuating collective harvests and sharing, maintaining connection to family lands, reasserting local governance rooted in ancestral values, and preparing future generations to carry on."

"Offers an overview of bottom-up management of natural resource management that can be applied globally. Spotlights Native Hawaiian advocacy for traditional management of the island’s natural resources. Provides a framework for resource managers, scientists and policymakers as well as indigenous populations"

"Explores the deep connections that ancestral Kānaka (Native Hawaiians) enjoyed with their environment. It honors the moʻolelo (historical accounts) of the ancestral places of their kūpuna (ancestors), and reveals how these moʻolelo and their relationships with the ʻāina (land) inform a Kanaka sense of place."

"In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean."

"Tackles the subject of the Kanaka (Hawaiian) connection to the ‘āina (land) through articles, poetry, art, and photography. From the remarkable cover illustration by artist April Drexel to the essays in this volume, there is no mistaking the insistent affirmation that Kanaka are inseparable from the ‘āina. This work calls the reader to acknowledge the Kanaka’s intimate connection to the islands."

See index to subjects and chants.

Includes section on
"InterIsland Canoe Voyages,"
"Naval Battles and Similar Incidents,"
"Legal Control of Channel Use,"
"List of Geographical Names Found in Accounts of Ancient Inter-island Canoe Voyages."

Available Online Here.
Check place names in index.
See also appendices:
I. Battles Of/At
II. Heiau Name and/or Location
III. Mele and Chants
IV. Sayings

Chapter: "Connotative values of Hawaiian place names," by Samuel H. Elbert. Pages 117-133.