Hawaiian Studies: Online Reference & Video Resources

collected by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

E-books about Hawaiian history, culture, and knowledge.

This streaming video collection offers 269 films featuring indigenous peoples of the Pacific, including several Eddie Kamae films, such as Listen to the Forest.

Explore the cultural collections of Bishop Museum

297 images from the Hawaiian and Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mānaleo was a television show that aired on the ʻŌlelo television network. It features interviews with native speakers of Hawaiian, many of whom are kupuna discussing their lives and traditional Hawaiian knowledge. The dialogue is in Hawaiian with no English subtitles. (From UH Sinclair Library description)

From the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, this site offers links to varied collections of data pertaining to historically and culturally significant places, events, and documents in Hawai'i’s history.

A geographical information system (GIS) that utilizes the latest mapping technologies to provide a window into native Hawaiian land, culture and history. Kipuka links historic data sets to geographic locations reinforcing the concept of information embedded in the ‘aina (land), encoded in the wahi inoa (place name).

from the Hawaiian Collection at UHM's Hamilton Library.