All Hawaiian cultural and educational materials are created and/or published by EKF to heighten indigenous Hawaiian cultural awareness.
All Hawaiian cultural and educational materials are created and/or published by EKF to heighten indigenous Hawaiian cultural awareness.
by Edith Kanaka‘ole 1979
Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Winner for Best Traditional Hawaiian Album. Not available through EKF. Currently owned by Hula Records.
by Hālau o Kekuhi
To listen to the myth of Pele and Hi‘iaka is to open your spirit to the secret of eternality, to resurrect ancestral memories and connections, and to engage them toward the betterment of our earthly life. The myth of Pele and Hi‘iaka was not intended to be read; rather, it was meant to be told, transmitted from generation to generation through storytelling, chanting, dancing, healing, and day-to-day living in a sacred environment.
Available to purchase here.
by Edith Kanaka‘ole 1980
Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Winner for Best Traditional Hawaiian Album. Not available through EKF. Currently owned by Hula Records.
by Ku‘ulei Higashi Kanahele, PhD
Ulu Mau is a supplemental native Hawaiian plant guide created for the Ma‘iola Indigenous Health Curriculum investigating the pharmaceutical uses of native Hawaiian flora.
by Hālau o Kekuhi
A recording of traditional chants with a 28-page CD booklet providing Hawaiian lyrics and English translations along with powerful imagery. 1999 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner for Haku Mele (best composition in the Hawaiian language) and Best Hawaiian Language Performance. Out of Print.
Download the CD booklet here.
by Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele, PhD
The epic saga expressed in hula of Pelehonuamea, goddess of the volcano, and her youngest and favorite sister, Hi‘iakaikapoliopele. It is also the story of a family and their responsibility to the land around them. Out of Print.
by Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele, PhD
A collection of 25 chants from the epic tale of Pele and Hi‘iaka. These mele reveal the richness of Hawaiian genealogy, migration, poetry, and hula. Through skillful interpretations and ancestral memory, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele summons ancient wisdom and renews our profound connection to the living earth.
Available to purchase here.
by Nathaniel B. Emerson
This is the epic story of Pele and Hi‘iaka, ...a documentation of a mythic journey toward the sacred interior of the Hawaiian psyche, of a people dwelling on sacred ground, and of a journey toward the recovery of the sacred inherent in every individual.
Available to purchase here.
by Huihui Kanahele-Mossman, PhD
Hula is art, nature, and on the surface, entertainment, and for high-performance classical hula dancers, hula is physically demanding. For this reason, the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation and Hālau o Kekuhi have produced The Haʻa Condition, a short guide written specifically for hula ʻōlapa.
The Haʻa Condition provides basic information concerning hula ʻōlapa, including ceremonial, lifestyle, and kinesthetic habits a dancer should exhibit. We have made the publication available in PDF or ePub format. This project was made possible thanks to funding provided by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority through the Kūkulu Ola Program.
by Nathaniel B. Emerson
Unwritten Literature possesses the timeless, unlimited depths and imageries of the hula tradition. Wrapped within Unwritten Literature is a bounty of life experiences, from amorous indulgences of the singing psalmists, including genealogies, reasons for exalting the chiefs, lessons of living in this land, descriptions of the characteristics and uses of flora and fauna, relationships of the living and the dead, and births and deaths of creatures of the earth.
Available to purchase here.