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Public Apology

(Hawaiian translation below)

The Department of Philosophy at Mānoa is
saddened by the news of the passing of
Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, Professor Emerita and
co-founder of the Hawai‘inuiākea School of
Hawaiian Knowledge. The Department
recognizes her trail-blazing scholarship and
visionary leadership and apologizes sincerely
for the attacks she suffered from philosophers
at Mānoa in the past.

Professor Trask’s work has been crucial in
foregrounding the systemic injustices that have
plagued the practice of our discipline. We
should have listened to her when she tried to
teach us that these injustices had their roots in
the history and power dynamics of colonial
oppression both within the University of
Hawai‘i and outside of it. That is a history the
Department of Philosophy is prepared to study
and confront. Also, it understands the need to
bring down barriers preventing indigenous
research from receiving academic recognition.

We acknowledge that our apology is long
overdue and regret we did not convey it to
Professor Trask in person while there was time.
We are aware that our shortcomings have also
affected the wider community of Kānaka ‘ōiwi
faculty and students. This apology is therefore
also addressed to them.

Today, the Department of Philosophy is eager
to pursue philosophy self-critically and explore
the rich and complex sources of Hawaiian
Knowledge in our classrooms and research in
comparative philosophy. We are also committed
to seeking partnerships with the School of
Hawaiian Knowledge and supporting native
Hawaiian projects aiming at articulating
Hawaiian values and ways of inquiry as
philosophy. Finally, we are not forgetting that
the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa was erected
on Hawaiian land. We acknowledge the need to
respect our host culture.

The Department of Philosophy at Mānoa

Dr. Tamara Albertini (Chair),
Dr. Arindam Chakrabarti, Dr. Chung-ying Cheng,
Dr. Vrinda Dalmiya, Dr. Jonathan Fine,
Dr. Masato Ishida, Dr. Thomas Jackson,
Dr. Steve Odin, Dr. Franklin Perkins,
Dr. Sean Smith, Dr. Joseph Tanke,
Dr. George Tsai

Affiliate Faculty and Lecturers

Dr. David Falgout
Dr. Sharon Rowe

University of Hawai’i West Oahu

Dr. Lisa Rosenlee

Kapi‘olani Community College

Dr. Kuang-Hung Chen
Dr. Kyle Takaki

Leeward Community College

Dr. Steven W. Laycock

He Mihi i Mua o Nā Kānaka a Pau

Luʻuluʻu kaumaha ka Māhele Kālaimanaʻo o Ke
Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa i ka hele hoʻi ʻole
ʻana mai o Ke Kauka Haunani Kay-Trask,
Polopeka Welo, kekahi mea hoʻokahua hoʻi
nāna i hoʻokumu iā Hawaiʻinuiākea, Ke Kula ʻIke
Hawaiʻi. Ua ʻike ʻia a ua mahalo ʻia hoʻi i kāna
waele mua ʻana i ke ala ʻimi naʻauao ma ke
kulanui me kāna alakaʻi ʻana ma loko o ia
māhele, a ke mihi minamina nei me ka ʻoiaʻiʻo a
me ka ʻehaʻeha no ka hana ʻino ʻia ona e nā
kumu kālaimanaʻo ma Mānoa i kona wā e noho
polopeka ana ma Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma
Mānoa.

Ua huʻe ʻia a maka ka hana hoʻokae pono ʻole a
ka māhele kālaimanaʻo e ua Polopeka Trask
nei ma o kāna hana koʻikoʻi. ʻO ka pololei a me
ka pono, he lohe mai nō kā ka māhele
kālaimanaʻo i ke aʻo āna no ia mau hana
hoʻokae i hele a laha i loko o ka moʻolelo o kona
lāhui Hawaiʻi ponoʻī a me ka hoʻomāhuahua ʻia
o ia mau hana hoʻokae hoʻokolonaio ma loko a
ma waho hoʻi o ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi.  ʻO ia aku
nei ke ʻano o ka hana a ka Māhele Kālaimanaʻo
e hoʻoponopono ai. Eia hou, ua ʻike ʻia iho hoʻi
ke kuleana e wāwahi i nā ālaina o ka ʻimi
naʻauao ʻana ma ke ʻano e kūpono ai no ka
poʻe ʻōiwi a e mahalo ʻia nō hoʻi e ke Kulanui.

Ua hala loa akula ka manawa i pono ai kēia
mihi ʻana me ka minamina ʻana ʻaʻole i waiho ʻia
nei mihi i mua pono ona nāna hoʻokahi wale nō
e huikala mai i kona wā e noho honua ana.
Ua ʻike nō hoʻi mākou i ka hoʻohemahema ʻia o
nā kumu ʻōiwi kanaka a pēlā pū hoʻi nā
haumāna ʻōiwi kanaka e mākou. Iā lākou hoʻi
kēia mihi. E huikala mai.

I kēia au naʻe e holo nei, ke hoʻoikaika nei a ke
hoʻoulu nei mākou, ka Māhele Kālaimanaʻo, i ke
kālaimanaʻo ma ka hikaloi ʻana iho me ka ʻimi
ʻana aku i loko o ka lehu a me ka mano o nā
kumu ʻike Hawaiʻi, a pēlā hoʻi ke kālailai
hoʻokūkū a me ka hoʻohālikelike ma loko o kā
mākou aʻo ʻana a me kā mākou noiʻi ʻana. E
hoʻopaʻa ana nō hoʻi mākou i ke kuʻikahi me ka
hoʻolōkahi aku me Hawaiʻinuiākea–Ke Kula ʻIke
Hawaiʻi–ma nā hana e ulu ai ka Hawaiʻi ma ke
kālaimanaʻo. ʻAʻole nō hoʻi mākou e hoʻopoina i
ke kūkulu ʻia o ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa
ma luna o ka ʻāina o nā Hawaiʻi no lākou nō ke
kuleana. Ke ʻike maopopo iho nei mākou i ko
mākou kuleana e hōʻihiʻihi a e hoʻoponopono
me nā Hawaiʻi.

Ka Māhele Kālaimanaʻo ma Mānoa

Dr. Tamara Albertini (Poʻo),
Dr. Arindam Chakrabarti, Dr. Chung-ying Cheng,
Dr. Vrinda Dalmiya, Dr. Jonathan Fine,
Dr. Masato Ishida, Dr. Thomas Jackson,
Dr. Steve Odin, Dr. Franklin Perkins,
Dr. Sean Smith, Dr. Joseph Tanke,
Dr. George Tsai

Nā Kumu a me nā Hoa Kumu

Dr. David Falgout
Dr. Sharon Rowe

Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma ʻEwa

Dr. Lisa Rosenlee

Ke Kula Kaiaulu o Kapiʻolani

Dr. Kuang-Hung Chen
Dr. Kyle Takaki

Ke Kula Kaiaulu o ʻEwa

Dr. Steven W. Laycock

Unuhi ʻia e Scott Kaua Neumann, Ke Kulanui o
Hawaiʻi ma ʻEwa

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