Videos

Raiatea Helm joined us, to offer a selection of mele aloha ʻāina to ground our intentions for Piʻo Summit 2024. A two-time Grammy nominee and multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano awards recipient, Raiatea is recognized as one of Hawaii’s premier female vocalists.

This is a critical discussion with Kekai Keahi, Kapua Sproat, and Clay Trauernicht, three distinguished experts who bring unique perspectives on community leadership, water rights, environmental law, and fire ecology. Together, this panel explored how ancestral knowledge of water, legal frameworks, and contemporary scientific approaches can guide us in restoring streams.

This panel brought together Chipper Wichman, Lei Wann, and Billy Kinney, three esteemed aloha ‘āina from Kauaʻi, to share their experiences leading their communities to recovery after the 2018 ʻrain bombʻ in Hāʻena. They give insights on lessons learned, and how ancestral knowledge informed their approach to rebuilding.

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigeno

Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer presents on "Aloha ʻĀina and the Ancestral Circular Economy" in a discussion with Kate Raworth at the 2024 Nature Based Solutions Conference at University of Oxford.

HI Now host Kainoa Carlson is joined by Kamanamaikalani Beamer and Kapua Sproat as they talk about the Native Hawaiian cultural perspective of water

All Hawai‘i Stands with Maui: Hawai‘i leaders join Lahaina residents. Video courtesy of HULI and Kanaeokana

A provocative conversation about Hawaiʻi's economic future with Dr. Kate Raworth and Dr. Kamana Beamer. Business and community leaders, policymakers, students, and educators came together to discuss ways our economy can achieve greater equity, prosperity, and wellbeing. Presented by Kamehameha Schools and the Hawaiʻi Business Roundtable.

Opening Addresses: Dr.Jonathan Osorio and Dr.Beamer Panel 1: Wai ʻAi and Iʻa featuring Keliʻi Kotubetey, Hōkūao Pellegrino, Tiare Lawrence, Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz, Stacy M Sproat and Hanohano Naehu. Moderated by Dr.Beamer. Panel 2: Ernie Lau, Wayne Tanaka, Camille Kalama. Moderated by UH Mānoa Professor Kapua Sproat.

Dr.Cornel West offers one of the most prolific and thoughtful Keynote conversations on issues of Imperialism, Justice, Integrity, Love, and Liberation as related to Hawaiʻi and broader movements for justice and people's movements worldwide. A Moderated Keynote at The University of Hawaii at Manoa Kennedy Theatre for the inaugural Piʻo Summit on Wai Sovereignty and Justice. Moderated by Dr.Beamer.

Water is one of Hawaii’s most precious resource. Dr. Kamana Beamer joins HI Now host Rachel Pacarro to emphasize the importance of water, and some tips on how to conserve.

A conversation with Maile Beamer Loo, Uʻilani Tanigawa-Lum, JD, Kamuela Meheula and Dr. Kamana Beamer about the transformative power of ʻāina to heal and empower Kanaka as we collectively restore ʻāina and each other.

On February 10th, 2022, a press conference was held at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol to call attention to emerging threats of the Navy's failing fuel facility at Kapūkakī (Red Hill), and the rising momentum of both public resolve and government responsiveness. There was representation from coalitions comprised of over 50 organizations.

Join McKenna Maduli as she welcomes Board of Water Supply’s Ernie Lau, U.S. Congressman Kai Kahele, Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, and others as they take a look at the cultural importance of wai (water) and share more on the current water crisis happening at Red Hill.

The United States Navy is facing growing calls to permanently shut down one of their fuel storage facilities in Hawaiʻi after a petroleum leak contaminated the water supply that serves over 90,000 families around the naval base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oʻahu.

A conversation with Dr. Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, Walter Ritte, Kapuaʻala Sproat, JD and Dr. Kamana Beamer about impacts of the Battle of Kuamoʻo on our realtionships to ʻāina and our motivations for a better Hawaiʻi.

On December 10th 2021, a press conference and die-in demonstration was held at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol demanding the Navy's Red Hill fuel storage facility to be shut down immediately.

Dr. Beamer speaks at a sign-waving event in Honolulu protesting the pollution of Oʻahu's water supply, and demanding the shut down of the Navy's fuel storage facility at Kapūkakī (Red Hill).

Brought to you by Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, as part of the 20th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention, hear from panelists including Congressman Kaialiʻi Kahele; Kamanamaikalani Beamer, professor and former state water commissioner; Ernie Lau, Chief Engineer, Honolulu Board of Water Supply & Wayne Chung Tanaka, Director, Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi.

A conversation with Dr. Jonathan Osorio, Keola Beamer, Neil Hannahs and Dr. Kamana Beamer about the history of Kuamoʻo and the 1819 battle that took place there.

Panelists consider different perspectives on the pros and cons and feasibility of adopting a circular economics model in Hawai‘i, more attuned to local and particularly Native Hawaiian values.

Oxford economist Kate Raworth argues that we need a new economics that prioritizes health, sustainability, and wellness over endless growth. In conversation with UH professor Kamanamaikalani Beamer, she discovers how modern circular economics builds from ancestral Native Hawaiian practices of wealth creation, resource distribution, and environmental conservation.

After 8 years of serving on the state water commission, Dr. Beamer comments on the efforts they have been able to accomplish and the work that remains for the commission.

Island Focus is a monthly half-hour television series produced by ‘Ōlelo Community Media as a community service. The show features exclusive interviews with members of our government, business, education, and community sectors and talk about their passions, what’s new, and what impact they’ve made.

A recording of the meeting of the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management on May 18, 2021.

A recording of the meeting of the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management on April 20, 2021.

A recording of the meeting of the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management on March 16, 2021.

A recording of the meeting of the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management on February 16, 2021.

Dr. Kamana Beamer presents on the essential role ancestral knowledge plays in shaping our economic future in a way in which cares for both people and resources. This presentation aired on Friday, February 12, 2021 during the "Ka Waiwai No Nā Kūpuna: Treasures From the Ancestors: Hawaiian Culture-Based Education Conference For All" presented by Kamehameha Schools Kealapono Division.

A recording of the meeting of the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management on January 19, 2021.

More than 180 people from the Hawaiian Islands and continental U.S. came together on September 23rd, 2020 for a thought-provoking conversation about the policies, issues and current thinking around preserving and interpreting places where complicated and/or difficult historic events occurred.

The Environmental Law Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law, UH Mānoa, joins Aloha Rising to offer an informative discussion on the “Protect Hakipuʻu” effort and delve into our collective kuleana to ensure proper stewarship of ʻĀina Kūpuna.

Dr. Kamana Beamer and Matt Lynch discuss how we could build a circular economy for Hawaiʻi, while building on the foundations of ʻike kūpuna and the philosophy of aloha ʻāina, and decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.

Join hundreds of Hawaiʻi community members, businesses, and organizations as we engage in a 4-step process of taking action to bring to life a resilient economy through our core value of ʻāina aloha—a deep and abiding love for Hawaiʻi’s communities and natural environments.

In this episode of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs news show, Ola Ka Hāloa, one of the co-authors of the ʻĀina Aloha Futures Declaration, Dr. Kamana Beamer, tells us about the ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures Effort.

This second episode of OHA's Aloha Rising webinar series features guest speaker Dr. Kamana Beamer presenting on the topic He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina - Land and Leadership in Ancestral Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Dr. Kamana Beamer delivers a presentation on his research in Kānaka ʻŌiwi land tenure systems, the development of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and the situation on Mauna Kea at Puʻuhuluhulu University.

Hosted by the UH Office of Sustainability, this panel discussion focuses on climate change mitigation strategies via Aloha ʻĀina and Circular Economies.

This is a portion of Dr Beamerʻs commencement address at the First Nations Institute at Stanford University on November 9th 2018. In this section he discusses his grandmother Nona Beamer and Leadership qualities.

Liliʻuokalani Ross interviews author Kamanamaikalani Beamer in Kohala, Hawaiʻi in mid 2015.

Following the 2015 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, sits down to talk about his latest book, for which he won the Samuel M. Kamakau award. His book, No Mākou Ka Mana: Liberating The Nation, explores the wisdom and creative political sophistication of Hawaiʻi's leaders.

Kamanamaikalani Beamer gives a presentation entitled "Oiwi Optics" and leads a discussion based on his book "No Makou ka Mana: Liberating a Nation" at the Waikoloa Marriott.

Kamanamaikalani Beamer shares his ʻike at the first of 4 Hawaiʻi Aloha presentations that took place on September 26, 2014 at the West Hawaiʻi Civic Center 6pm-8pm. Hawaiʻi Aloha is an educational series designed to continue the discourse that was started at the Department of Interior hearings held all across Hawaiʻi and specifically here in Kona in the month of July.

Kamana Beamer speaks at the Department of Interior meeting held in Waimea, Hawaiʻi in July of 2014.