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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. Sharon Rowe

West Oahu
Dr. Lisa Rosenlee

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 ʻimi hana 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 e mākou nā kumu
ʻōiwi kanaka a pēlā pū hoʻi nā haumāna
ʻōiwi kanaka. 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 (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

Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma ʻEwa
Dr. Lisa Rosenlee

Unuhi ʻia e Scott Kaua Neumann

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