Paper 3 100-word challenge
Within the Hawaiian community today, the most pressing issue relating to shared/common resources or the environment that I’ve learned about by reading Kaiaulu and other articles is kuleana lands. This is an important issue because Native Hawaiians were awarded lands to perpetuate kuelana, natural resource management and connection to a place through protection of cultural landscapes and family lands. From 1839, Hawaiians lost their family kuleana lands through family members making a decision to relinquish their claims to the land or through court battles. To this day, some Hawaiian families continue to fight to upkeep their family kuleana lands.