N? LEI poina ?OLE (beloved children never forgotten): regenerating life and land at waiale?e, o?AHU [this project seeks to promote public engagement with the history of the former industrial school…

N? LEI poina ?OLE (beloved children never forgotten): regenerating life and land at waiale?e, o?AHU [this project seeks to promote public engagement with the history of the former industrial school for boys at waiale?e, hawai?i. Our project title, NA LEI poina ?OLE, is a reference to an ?olelo no?EAU (hawaiian wise saying): ?he LEI poina ?OLE KE keiki,? Meaning, ?a child is a LEI never forgotten.? This saying reminds US that children are beloved and a source of great pride to their families. The overarching goal of our project is to remember and memorialize the children kept at the boys? School in culturally meaningful ways, which can also help to address the intergenerational impacts this history continues to have. For the period of this grant, we plan to do so through a focus on regenerating life and land. Today, our non-profit organization, the north shore community land trust, works at the former school site to restore LO?i kalo (areas for growing taro, a traditionally important staple food) and a freshwater fishpond.] [the north shore community land trust, a 501(c)3 designed to protect the natural and cultural heritage of northwest o?AHU, has years of experience working with indigenous and local populations in hawai?i on community-based programming. Here they request just under $30,000 to host a number of ?talk-stories? (hawaiian communal oral history and listening sessions), to support a native hawaiian undergraduate at the university of utah to conduct archival research, and to hire a contractor to construct an arcgis storymap for educating the wider hawaiian community about the history of the local boarding schools. This would be north shore community land trust?s first NEH award.]