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Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Kū-ka-ʻilimoku
- Type: Place
A guardian god of governance and warfare, Kū-kaʽilimoku was a patron deity of the ruling aliʽi on the island of Hawaiʽi. See this carved kiʻi in the Royal Grounds near the kōnane papamū (playing surface).
Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site
Kast
- Type: Article
Large cupboards such as this, known as a kast (or kas), represented an important form of furniture in the Netherlands during the early seventeenth century. To showcase an owner’s prosperity, a kast was prominently positioned in the home. While functional, they also embodied status, lineage, and national identity—so important that wealthy Dutch families in New York imported them from the Dutch Republic.
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Ho‘onā‘ū - Prolonging an Ancestral Breath: Kū'auhau
- Type: Article
The third article in the Hoʻonāʻū - Prolonging an Ancestral Breath series by Kahakaʻio Ravenscraft is titled "Ku'auhau" and it speaks to the importance of genealogy in Oceanic traditions. The article features excerpts from Kumulipo, a cosmology preserved from ka wā kahiko.
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Ho‘onā‘ū - Prolonging an Ancestral Breath: Moʻoʻōlelo
- Type: Article
The second article in the Hoʻonāʻū - Prolonging an Ancestral Breath series by Kahakaʻio Ravenscraft offers perspective on mo‘o‘ōlelo, the tradition in spoken word and stories of origin. Featuring excerpts from Kumulipo, a cosmology preserved from ka wā kahiko.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Lewis and Clark on the Kansas/Nebraska border
- Type: Article
The Corps of Discover stopped to rest just south of the Kansas/Nebraska border – White Cloud and Highland, Kansas in 1804. According to local legend, their names are said to be carved in a stone somewhere close to today’s White Cloud. This was the land of the Ioway tribe. After Lewis and Clark, the tribe’s chief, Ma-Hush-Kah, or White Cloud, lived near the river at a place called Iowa Point in a double-hewn log house.
- Type: Place
The South Point Complex, is located at the southern tip of the Island of Hawai'i on Ka Lae (the point), 16 miles south of the town of Naalehu. It is the southernmost point in both the Hawaiian Islands and the United States and is made up of a group of sites which are among the oldest in the Islands.