Mahalo nui for all your support and aloha,

Daniel Anthony & Anuenue Punua
Ka ʻOhana Mana Ai

Come and learn how to clean kalo, pound kalo into paʻiʻai and mix into poi. Give me a call (808) 542-1326 if you have any questions or would like to reserve kalo.

Kaholokuʻi canceled for Monday the 20th due to Holiday.  See you soon

Have you been wanting to attend a Kaholokuʻi workshop so that you can get your “kuʻi on”? Well thanks to a student of HPU Windward we are now doing Kaholokuʻi on Mondayʻs from 5 – 7 pm in the main building court yard.

Kalo for University Students $5 per pound
Kalo for everyone else $6 per pound ($1 goes to support the clubs future)

Come and learn how to clean kalo, pound kalo into paʻiʻai and mix into poi.Call (808) 542-1326 if you have any questions or to reserve kalo.

Hope to see you there,

Daniel Anthony
Mana Ai ʻOhana

We have finally gotten our non-profit status.  We need your help to continue teaching and making paʻiʻai available in our communities.  Thus far our voyage has been for the most part self funded and although times maybe tight, we continually live being blessed.  In order for this movement to continue to grow our non-profit has been created as an avenue to acquire land and water to grow kalo and umbrella the kalo pounding clubs across the islands.  If you would like to be apart of this, please contact us eat@manaai.com or 808 542-1326.

These are a few thing we currently could use in our educational workshop:

20 Clean wooden calabashes – 8″ and 12″ Philippine made bowls are great – they cost about $10-15each new

10 brand new 5 gallon buckets with lids – $6-8 each at any hardware store

1 Electric power washer 1500 – 1800 psi (lowes $170)

10 plastic folding stools 300lbs compacity – City Mill $20 each

2 Plastic folding tables 3ʻ – 6ʻ

10 – bath size towels

Mahalo nui for your time and consideration.

Now is the time to make a papa kuiai and start to make poi for your family. Get on it kanaka! Contact us if you like some kokua, iiawah@hotmail.com or 808 542-1326. From the 25th of jan – 1st of feb we b on molokai doing a board and stone workshop with Kaimana Yaw. If you like come and work with us on molokai check out Kaimana Yaw on facebook or just call me up.

aloha no kakou,

Daniel Anthony

Papa kuiai in Heeia lolo`ia

Check out batch: http://batch.com/batch/27776 to see some papa kuʻiʻai blanks curing in the Heʻeia Fishpond.  Prices on the photos.  Boards are ready in February.  Buy a board and come to our board making workshop, $20 per hour (all material and equip provided) you can finish your board in as little as 4 hours.

Sushi ii: check out the latest Restaurant to lay down and offer paʻiʻai on the menu

The pulled pork and paʻiʻai dish is amazing!  next time you on Keeaumoku, check them out across (diamondhead) from Walmart and Sams Club – Sushi ii

Check out the latest Restaurant to lay down and offer paʻiʻai on the menu, Honolulu Magazine features Sushi ii: More Than Meets the ii.

The next installment of this video will show how folks have been making the boards using all kinds of tools and carving styles.

Mana Ai / HiLife Shirt now online

Bout time we got a shirt rolling…..  Nui ka mahalo to BJ and all the folks from Butigroove who ponied up and just did it.

Get one today, get one for a friend.  Every shirt supports our mission to bring Haloanakalaukapalili back into our homes.

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La Ho`iho`i Ea is a celebration of Hawaiian independence and
sovereignty.  It remembers the end of a brief 6 month British occupation over Hawaii
in 1843 perpetrated by Lord George Paulette of the Royal Navy.  During this time, all
Hawaiian flags were lowered, burned and replaced with the flag of Great Britain.

When word of this incident reached the shores of Great Britain, Admiral
Richard Thomas, commander of British naval forces in the Pacific, was immediately
dispatched to Hawaii by order of Queen Victoria to undo Paulette’s work and restore
the small kingdom as a testament to Hawaii’s unfettered independence and
sovereignty.  “Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono,” the famous saying of the sovereign
Kamehameha III, was proclaimed to a crowded audience of loyal subjects on the steps
of Kawaiahao during the ceremony. “The sovereignty of our nation is preserved
through law and justice.”  In Honolulu, the ceremony was attended by Admiral
Richard Thomas who lowered the British Union Jack.  In its placed was raised the
Hae Hawaii with full honors befitting a great nation in a ceremony seeking to repair a
great wrong committed against the Hawaiian kingdom by rogue agents of Great
Britain.  This was a momentous celebration which lasted 10 days.  This event was
named Ka La Hoihoi Ea, the day sovereignty was returned to Hawaii.

For 50 years since La Hoihoi Ea was celebrated as a National Holiday until 1893
when Hawaii was once again the victim of an illegal takeover and military occupation
by the United States of America.  Queen Liliuokalani, ruler at the time and noted
student of history, looked at La Hoihoi Ea as an example of how even small countries
can be safe under established laws and treaties and believed that the United States,
upon facts being presented to it, would act in the way that the British Crown did and
restore her to the throne like Kamehameha III fifty years earlier.

This did not happen however.  Instead the United States of America
systematically erased symbols of Hawaii’s sovereignty like national holidays
recognizing Hawaii’s independence.  La Kuokoa (Hawaiian Independence Day) and
La Hoihoi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) were banned throughout the kingdom,
along with the native language, as a means to wipe away our history and deprive us of
our national rights in our homeland.  For over 100 years the United States of
America continues to illegally occupy the national lands of Hawaii and indoctrinate a
Hawaiian citizenry into believing their national loyalty lay with America. Today more
Hawaiians celebrate an American independence day rather than our own.

In 1985, Dr Kekuni Blaisdell, Hawaiian national and patriot, resurrected this
historic holiday to honor and celebrate Hawaiis’ continued independence and
sovereignty in Hawaii, despite a century long American occupation.  Today, we
continue to call out to the United States to do what is pono and correct this crime in
the same spirit as was shown by the British Crown in 1843.

Come celebrate and honor our ancestors, our history, our sovereignty and our
unending fight for justice.  Fly your Hawaiian flag proudly on July 31st, 2011 and let
the world know that we have not forgotten who we are.  E mau ke ea o ka aina i ka
pono. La Hoihoi Ea