Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives

Davida Malo’s Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years be...

From the Foreword―“Crucially, past, present, and future are tightly woven in ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) theory and practice. We adapt to whatever hist...

The publication of the Memoirs of Henry Obookiah inspired the sending of the Sandwich Islands Mission to Hawai‘i from Boston in 1819. Henry Obookia...

Queen Liliuokalani left two major legacies. The first, her lands, have benefited the Hawaiian people through the Liliuokalani Trust and Queen L...

The tiare apetahi (a rare variety of gardenia) grows only on Mt. Temehani on the island of Raiatea, the ancient spiritual center of Polynesia.  Ch...

“This Treasury offers a wealth of information for everybody…. [It] proves that a surprising number of Hawaiian words from our receding past still h...

Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years...