I hele mai nei au e noi ia oe e Kāne i ka kapakai.
We are working to apply Lāʻau Lapaʻau protocol (Hawaiian traditional medicine practice) as a place-based, culturally grounded practice in the field of biogeography. Broadening the epistemological framework to include wellbeing in biogeography, as framed by traditional healing practices, has critical implications for conservation and resource managers and community stakeholders. This project will push forward biogeography process that legitimize community-based knowledge, further develop hybrid and novel mapping strategies based on culturally grounded, place-based methodologies such as Lāʻau Lapaʻau, and hold resource research internally accountable within local communities we can design mapping process inherently driven by the need to inform conservation while honoring the knowledge, experiences, and rights of the resource users themselves.
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Critical GIS will be used to map coastal resources (tidal and coastal vegetation) under a healing frame in the area of Kalapana, Puna, Hawaiʻi Island. Due to frequent lava activity within this rural Hawaiian community, combined with the difficulty to assess these intertidal resources via remote sensing technologies, there has been little work done to document the histories and current wellbeing of these resources and theircultural relationships. Culturally grounded frameworks will be applied to a mixed methodology of physical and cultural geographic methods. Successful outcomes of this research are to produce maps/materials to share with participating community members so that their knowledge of the ecosystems and how these places have changed is documented within their familiesand future coastal conservation in the area can be grounded on spatial products developed within and by community through an approach rooted in the protocol of healing.
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OLA
Habitat mapping of coastal Kalapana will be used to prototype Lāʻau Lapaʻau protocol as a critical, place-based informed biogeography. This approach will focus on including understandings of ola: health and wellbeingwithin these distribution models. This approach is inherently biocultural, linking "biophysical and sociocultural components of SES (socioecological systems), partners with local communities to identify feedbacks between ecosystems and human well-being, and relies on multiple-knowledge systems to identify management interventions that can meet objectives of stakeholders with diverse priorities and worldviews" (Leong et al. 2019).
In Lāʻau Lapaʻau practice, there are two categories of disease caused by forces mawaho, outside the body, and maloko, caused from within (Abbott 1992). External forces refer to conflict caused by others including spirits, ʻaumakua (family guardians), and others (Abbott 1992). The variety of kahuna with their own specialties and diverse causes of ailment in Lāʻau Lapaʻau practice suggest that we cannot only focus on the kino, the body, but also the ʻano, spirit, and pili, relationships when determining wellbeing of these ecosystems (Kamakau 1992).
Fortini, Lucas, Jonathan Price, James Jacobi, Adam Vorsino, Jeff Burgett, Kevin Brinck, Fred Amidon, et al. 2013. “A Landscape-Based Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability for All Native Hawaiian Plants.” Technical Report HCSU-044. University of Hawaiʻi Hilo: Hawaiʻi Cooperative Studies Unit.
Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani. 1992. Ka Poʻe Kahiko. Bishop Museum Press.
Leong, Kirsten M., Supin Wongbusarakum, Rebecca J. Ingram, Alexander Mawyer, and Melissa R. Poe. 2019. “Improving Representation of Human Well-Being and Cultural Importance in Conceptualizing the West Hawai’i Ecosystem.” Frontiers in Marine Science.
Vorsino, Adam E., Lucas B. Fortini, Fred A. Midon, Stephen E. Miller, James D. Jacobi, Jonathon P. Price, Sam ʻOhukaniʻohiʻa Gon III, and Gregory A. Koob. 2014. “Modeling Hawaiian Ecosystem Degradation Due to Invasive Plants under Current and Future Climates.” PLoS ONE9 (5): 1–22.
In Lāʻau Lapaʻau practice, there are two categories of disease caused by forces mawaho, outside the body, and maloko, caused from within (Abbott 1992). External forces refer to conflict caused by others including spirits, ʻaumakua (family guardians), and others (Abbott 1992). The variety of kahuna with their own specialties and diverse causes of ailment in Lāʻau Lapaʻau practice suggest that we cannot only focus on the kino, the body, but also the ʻano, spirit, and pili, relationships when determining wellbeing of these ecosystems (Kamakau 1992).
Fortini, Lucas, Jonathan Price, James Jacobi, Adam Vorsino, Jeff Burgett, Kevin Brinck, Fred Amidon, et al. 2013. “A Landscape-Based Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability for All Native Hawaiian Plants.” Technical Report HCSU-044. University of Hawaiʻi Hilo: Hawaiʻi Cooperative Studies Unit.
Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani. 1992. Ka Poʻe Kahiko. Bishop Museum Press.
Leong, Kirsten M., Supin Wongbusarakum, Rebecca J. Ingram, Alexander Mawyer, and Melissa R. Poe. 2019. “Improving Representation of Human Well-Being and Cultural Importance in Conceptualizing the West Hawai’i Ecosystem.” Frontiers in Marine Science.
Vorsino, Adam E., Lucas B. Fortini, Fred A. Midon, Stephen E. Miller, James D. Jacobi, Jonathon P. Price, Sam ʻOhukaniʻohiʻa Gon III, and Gregory A. Koob. 2014. “Modeling Hawaiian Ecosystem Degradation Due to Invasive Plants under Current and Future Climates.” PLoS ONE9 (5): 1–22.
KINOA combination of ecological monitoring methods will be used to capture the seasonal, lunar, tidal, and biologic fluctuations within these ecosystems and species including transects of tidal environments and coastal vegetation surveys.
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ANOTraditional sources of knowledge such as moʻolelo & kaʻao (stories), oli (chant) and mele (song), pule (prayer), newspaper accounts, and oral histories will be identified through narrative research and incorporated to species range model geo-visualizations.
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PILIEthnographic methods including interviewing, participant sketch maps, walking interviews, and participant observation will be used to understand the current and historical relationships between the kanaka, the people of Kalapana, and these ecosystems
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