Earlier this month, Chief of War premiered on Apple TV+ and completely blew me away. The historical drama focuses on the unification of the Hawaiian islands, mainly from the point of view of Kaʻiana ...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, led a bipartisan group of 34 senators in passing a resolution to recognize the heritage, ...
TULALIP, Wash. (HawaiiNewsNow) - Big crowds are coming to the Tulalip Casino resort in Washington for this year’s Native Hawaiian Convention. It’s a chance for Native Hawaiians across the country to ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Andie Conching, known to be the first Native Hawaiian woman to become a neurosurgeon, is spending the holidays in Hawaii while training on the mainland. Born and raised in ...
Artist Lehuauakea holding a traditional Hawaiian kite made of kapa (all photos courtesy Lehuauakea) Lehuauakea, a Kanaka Maoli artist and practitioner of kapa, or Native Hawaiian bark clothmaking, ...
“Waikiki” debuted at the Urban World Film Festival in 2020. In his debut feature film, Christopher Kahunahana intertwines modern Hawaiian culture with the historical generational ills of native people ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Next time you sift through your coin pouch, check out the newest face of the $1 coin: Native Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your ...
KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — In early 2025, new executive orders from Washington, D.C. put Native Hawaiian programs under a shadow of fear. What looked like a wave of federal changes against diversity, equity ...
Sara Kehaulani Goo's family, who have owned land in Hana, Maui for nearly 200 years, almost lost it due to a property tax hike. The tax increase was triggered by satellite imagery revealing the land ...
HONOLULU — A high-altitude plateau on the Big Island is the only place in Hawaii where thousands of ground forces can practice firing live munitions. It's also a place many Native Hawaiians consider ...
Data from the 2020 U.S. census found that, for the first time, more Native Hawaiians were living away from the islands than not.