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7th
Annual NHEA Convention
March 28 & 29, 2006
Leeward Community College
KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
Tuesday, March 28, 2006:
 Moses
Kaho'okele Crabbe teaches Hawaiian Language and Culture at
the Kamehameha Schools Hawai'i Campus. Upon graduation from the Kamehameha
Schools in 1977, he received his B.A. in Hawaiian Studies and his teaching
certificate from UH-Manoa. He has taught in the Hawaiian Immersion program
both at Kula Kaiapuni o Keaukaha and Puohala and still assists with
the graduation ceremonies at Ke Kula o Nawahiokalaniopu'u. He is a member
of Papa 'A'ali'i wherein 1995, his 'uniki as a Kumu Hula under Robert
Cazimero was held at Pu'u Pueo, Waikane, O'ahu. He has taught at the
Kamehameha Schools Explorations - Ho'omaka'ika'i program, the City and
County of Honolulu Parks and Recreation Hawaiiana Unit and currently
serves as the Kumu for Halauolaokalani and Na Lei o Kaiona in Hilo.
His interests are haku mele, lei-making, hula and traveling. He recently
was a delegate to the WIPCE Conference at the University of Hamilton
in Aotearoa. He has served as a judge at the Kamehameha Schools Song
Contest and at the Mokihana Festival on Kaua'i. His teachers and mentors
include, Aunty Nona Beamer, Robert Cazimero, Wayne Chang, Mrs. Violet-Marie
Rosehill, Lurline Salvador, Mrs. Ho'oulu Cambra, Mr. Abraham Pi'ianai'a,
Mrs. Edith Mckenzie, Uncle John Aiona, his mother, Mrs. Rose Na'auao
Pelayo, and his kupuna.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006:
 M.
Ka'imipono Kaiwi, a 21 year classroom teacher, teaches Literature
of the Pacific and serves as the Department Head of English at the Kamehameha
Schools, Kapälama. She earned her BA in English from Biola University
in 1983 and her MA in English from the University of Auckland in 2001—where
the focus of her graduate studies was in Contemporary Hawaiian literature.
She began her teaching career in Southern California, teaching in both
public and private schools, before coming home in 1989. She frequently
shares her work/research on Hawaiian literature and education at conferences
such as NHEA, NIEA, NCTE, and most recently at WIPCE 2006 in Hamilton,
New Zealand. Her essay titled "Typee: Melville's 'Contribution'
to the well-being of Native Hawaiians" will be included in the
text, "Whole Oceans Away": Melville and the Pacific, to be
published in 2007 by Kent State University Press. Kaiwi currently sits
on the board of Küleana ÿÖiwi Press, and she was a Board member and
secretary for the Native Hawaiian Education Association (NHEA) for five
years. Her "most important job," however, is being Mommy to
her son, Keliÿikïkau. Her teachers and mentors include: Mr. Philip Hanohano,
Mrs. Dani Hanohano, Mr. Richard Hamasaki, Mrs. Mae Klein, Mrs. Pohai
Souza, Mr. Kamuela Chun, Dr. Albert Wendt, Mr. Witi Ihimaera, Dr. Manu
Aluli Meyer, Dr. Walter Kahumoku III, and her kupuna who brought her
home.
Read Ka'imipono's Keynote Address [here].
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