A Hawaiian Nation 1: Man, Gods, and Nature
by Micahel Kioni Dudley

Barbara Helynn's recommendation:

A hawaiian Nation 1: Man Gods and Nature by Michael Kioni Dudley touched me and opened my mind.   I was deeply touched by the author's description of the relationship between people, nature and Spirit.  I 'got' the experience of relating to beings in nature just as I relate to people. I 'got' the feel of plants, animals and elements being conscious beings.. Because of this book I now experience plants in a special, personal way.  

Over a period of several years I had to re-start reading this 150 page  book several times  before I could get through the description near the beginning of the book of the Hawaiian view of the Universe.  As a  Westerner who was raised visualizing our earth as round, and as a person who has difficulty with spacial directions like left and right, I was totally lost by his spacial descriptions of the Hawaiian view of the universe.  

• SPIRITUALITY & HEALING
• Margaret Machado, lomilomi massage master
• Lanakila Brandt, priest of Lono
• Kawika Ka'alakea, minitster, herbal medicine practitioner
• PRESERVATION & HISTORY
• Lydia Namahana Mai'oho,  kahu of Royal Mausoleum
• Charley Keau, archaelologist
• ACTIVISM
• Winona Beamer, Hawaiian Studies teacher, hula master
• Kekuni Blaisdell, MD,  physician, sovereignty advocate
• Kepeka Chandler, community organizer
• Elaine Kaopuiki,  communicty activist, hula master
• DANCE, CHANT, GEANEALOGY, MUSIC
• George Na'ope,  hula master
• John Lake  chanter, hula master, Hawaiian Studies teacher
• Edith McKinzie,  genealogy expert, professor of Hawaiian studies.
• Kindy Sproat, falsetto singer
• ARTS & CRAFTS
• Puanana Van Dorpe, master kapa cloth maker
• Marie McDonald, lei making expert, author
• Elizabeth Lee, maser lau hala weaver
• CANOE
• Jo-Anne Kahanamoku Sterling, crew member of Hokule'a, feather artist
• Leon Paoa Sterling, captain of Hokule'a, man of the sea
• Herb Kane, artist, historian
• NEXT GENERATION
• Nainoa Thompson, navigator
• Keola Sequeira, wood carver, canoe maker