Hawaiʻi - EA Hawaiian Activism Movements 1960-2010: Wai

This dissertation is a comparative case study of three resource struggles in a rural community of Hawai'i: an anti-eviction fight by the Waiāhole-Waikāne Community Association, a battle for water by Waiāhole taro farmers, and a Hawaiian family’s fight to protect its land from the U.S. military in Waikāne. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

Gives a historical overview of how the sugar planters diverted stream water from windward Oahu to the Ewa plains by building the Waiāhole Ditch. Focuses on the central issue of returning this water to residents and taro farmers in Waiāhole and Waikane to enable them to restore stream ecosystems which are conducive to growing taro and which would revitalize native stream life. Available online via ʻŌiwitv.

This article is a both a historical account and collection of photographs with personal accounts of the struggle for the restoration of Waiāhole Stream.

In A Nation Rising : Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty p.48-65. An essay covering both evictions and water struggles of Waiāhole and Waikāne from the 1970s through the 1990s. Available online via ProQuest Ebook.

Recorded off-air from the Sept. 5, 1997 telecast of the program First Friday. Discussion of the Waiāhole and Waikāne water case, water codes, the proposed decision of the Water Commission, and the makawai stream restoration. The environmental advantages of healthy stream flow especially on native species. Also Hawaiian water rights. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

Telecast Sept. 1994, on the program First Friday, the unauthorized news, on ATTN, Honolulu. Discussion of Waiāhole water issues with water resources researcher George Hudes and taro farmer Herbert Hoe. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

In an era of climate change crisis precipitated by global extraction of resources and defended by a military-industrial complex, Kanaka Maoli, or the First Peoples of Hawai’i, have struggled over the decades to resist the militarization of our homeland. The struggle for return of land is intrinsically tied to the resistance to military and the capitalistic exploitation via the development, occupation, and sale of our homelands. By exploring the key struggles of the Kalama Valley and Wai’ahole/Waikane resistance, the reawakening of culture reveals how indigenous systems of sustainability, based on traditional technology and science, provide a pathway forward during these troublesome times. Available online via EBSCOhost & Duke University Press for UHM patrons.

This dissertation examines the Waiāhole Water Case, a battle before the Hawai'i Commission on Water Resource Management and Hawaii's Supreme Court. Examines how the windward and leeward parties used power, portrayals and science to debate the central issues of the case: the future of agriculture, the rights of Hawaiians, and the protection of the environment. The way these arguments were treated by policy makers and how that affected the final outcome is then examined. Available online via ProQuest for UHM patrons.

In A Nation Rising : Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty, p.199-219. This chapter goes over the history of Hawaiian movements around water restoration and justice focusing on Waiāhole and Nā Wai ʻEhā. Available online via ProQuest Ebook for UHM patrons.

Provides an intellectual and legal framework for understanding both the past and future of Hawai‘i's freshwater resources. In placing Hawaii water law in the context of its historical development, the author condenses an enormous amount of information on traditional Hawaiian social structure and mythology. How water use permits will play out in a variety of circumstances that may arise in the future, and he discusses the interrelationship between the State Water Code and the common law on water rights. Available online via EBSCOhost Ebooks for UHM patrons.

Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund attorney Denise Antolini, attorney Ron Albu, Waiāhole farmer Charles Reppun, and State Representative Annelle Amaral discuss water issues in Hawaiʻi. Topics include: significant water legislation and court decisions, water rights for sugar companies and local farmers, and the state's Commission on Water and Resource Management. Available online via UH Streaming Videos for UHM patrons.

Ola I Ka Wai provides a community-oriented introduction to Hawai`i water law for those wanting to better understand their rights and the overall legal and cultural landscape. Summarizes and explains major Hawai`i laws and issues, and directs readers to available resources.

This video covers the historical complications of the water diversions in East Maui. Speakers include Eddie Wendt, Na Moku Aupuni o Koolau; Steven Hookano, taro farmer; Kaui Kanakaole, Eastside Hui; "Boy" Hanchett, Hana cowboy; John Lind, CJ "Boom" Helekahi, musician; Muriel Hanchett, and Hāna kūpuna.

In A Nation Rising, p.220-232. This book chapter covers the east Maui water struggle from historical look at the diversion of water from east Maui for irrigation for the sugar plantations in central Maui to the history of pushback by local taro farmers that continue to this day. Available online via Ebook Central for UHM patrons.

Using qualitative fieldwork, including interviews, participant observation, and archival data collection, to explore two recent and ongoing legal cases around water allocation in Maui: Nā Wai ‘Ehā and East Maui. The research uses legal geography and political ecology to examine the use of the public trust doctrine in challenging water allocation practices in Maui, specifically focusing on the concepts of legal pluralism and socioenvironmental hybridity. We examine the ways in which plural legal processes and precedents have developed and combined in place-specific ways, and connect legal pluralism with ideas of hybridity from nature-society geography. Available online via Elsevier ScienceDirect for UHM patrons.

This overview of the east Maui water struggles goes through the history of the legal battles through the Hawaiian lens of a guardian moʻo (lizard). This article explains how it is not only a battle for the water itself but also for the collective memory of water in Hawaiʻi. Available online via heinonline.org.