INDIGENOUS NA’AU

 

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Indigenous Naʻau charts a compelling journey into culturally rooted education, honoring Indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing. Elders—cultural practitioners, fishers, and canoe builders—share generational, place‑based knowledge steeped in the waʻa (canoe). Using the canoe as a metaphor—a floating community, or island—this film shows how every person, every role matters and resources are limited and precious. Indigenous Naʻau offers a path of remembering: one that heals through belonging, uplifts through shared responsibility, and plants the seeds of a future where cultural identity and ecological care are inseparable. Let this film stir curiosity, challenge norms, and invite a way of learning and knowing that belongs deeply to us all.

*Filmmaker will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. (First screening only)

Presented as Part Of Hawai’i Pacific Health Showcase Shorts