Welina: Welcome + Introduction
Welina me ke aloha e nā hoa noiʻi nowelo! Welcome, everyone, to Hoʻokele Naʻauao: A Hawaiian Librarianship Symposium 2022! We’re going to start the day with an introduction to our project, Ka Wai Hāpai, and a discussion of this year’s theme, “ʻĀina: Sources and Systems.”
“Hawaiian Soul” Short-Film Screening
Against the backdrop of the 1970s native rights movement, George Helm, a Hawaiian activist and musician must gain the support of kūpuna from the island of Maui to aid in the fight of protecting the precious neighboring island of Kahoʻolawe from military bombing. This 20 minute, narrative short-film is based on the true story of Hawaiian hero, George Jarrett Helm Jr. It is a tribute to the legacy of a leader and artist that used his voice to inspire a revolution of consciousness. Filmmakers ʻĀina Paikai and Mikiala Pescaia will discuss their process in making a film about the man who re-instilled the notion of Aloha ʻĀina and launched us into the Hawaiian Renaissance.
Relationships, Place and Knowledge: Creating Systems that Reflect Communities
Sandra Styres reminds us that working with Indigenous communities and “within Indigenous contexts is first and foremost about reciprocity and relationships, including. These relationships involve acknowledgement and understanding of … relations of place” (2019, p. 24). In this three part panel, presenters will address the ways in which relationships to land and place inform their collaborative work with Indigenous communities to enhance access to collections and resources by, about, and for those communities. Anne Carr-Wiggin and Sharon Farnel will speak to how land and place drive the work of the University of Alberta Library’s decolonizing description initiatives, in particular the consultation strategy and approach. Dodie Malegana and Sharon Farnel will discuss the critical role of place in the metadata framework for the Inuvialuit Digital Library and describe the work to incorporate original place names into resource descriptions. Anne Carr-Wiggin will describe how land-based learning and relationships grew into a community-led archiving and knowledge organizing project with a Tłı̨chǫ community in Yellowknife. In sharing their experiences and hearing those of symposium attendees, they hope to grow our collective understanding and appreciation for land in sources and systems. Styres, S. (2019). Literacies of land: Decolonizing narratives, storying and literature. In Smith, L.T., Tuck, E., Yang, K.W. (eds), Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View. New York: Routledge)
Ka Wai Hāpai Co-Creation Process and Practice
In this session, Ka Wai Hāpai Magic Spinner Keahiahi Long is joined by her kumu, cousin, and Ka Wai Hāpai Consultant, Maelia Loebenstein Carter. Ka Wai Hāpai Project Lead (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) Annemarie Paikai will moderate this discussion. Ka Wai Hāpai works in consultation with six loea (cultural practice masters), including Maelia. Since November 2021, Ka Wai Hāpai Project Administrators Shavonn Matsuda, Annemarie Paikai, and Keahiahi Long have met monthly with each consultant, discussing ontologies, relationships, protocols, and language. Maelia was also a consultant for our previous project, Lau Ā Lau Ka ʻIke: Knowledge Overflowing, where we investigated the co-creation of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi controlled vocabularies. Together, Keahiahi, Maelia, and Annemarie will reflect on the first year of project consultation meetings, considering challenges, successes, outcomes, and next steps.
Talk Story: Knowledge Organization
Ka Wai Hāpai Project Director Shavonn Matsuda is joined by Whina Te Whiu and Sharon Farnel in an informal talk-story session about knowledge organization practices. Session attendees are also encouraged to bring their KO questions and participate in the conversation. We hope to share, learn, listen, ask questions, and strengthen our community of knowledge organization practitioners.
Lifting Our Hands: Indigenous Sovereignty in Libraries
Libraries have long been the stewards of Indigenous cultural materials including Indigenous stories, Knowledges and Indigenous research which may or may not have been ethically conducted. But are libraries actually the best stewards for these collections? In this session we will explore the concept of Indigenous Data/Knowledge Sovereignty and how it relates to libraries, as well as discover ways in which libraries can work with Indigenous communities to evaluate our own institutional priorities and procedures to develop culturally appropriate protocols, and repatriate digital and non-digital collections.