Mauna Kea Anaina Hou is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) organization comprised of cultural and lineal descendants, and traditional, spiritual and religious practitioners of the sacred traditions of Mauna Kea. We are an organization of Hawaiian cultural practitioners.

2019

What we’re standing for is to protect the Earth. We’re not against science.

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November 28, 2021

The recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s (Astro2020) prioritizes U.S. funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope — with its contentious preferred site on Mauna Kea — continuing America’s legacy of colonialism and oppression of indigenous kanaka maoli.

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November 6, 2019

Kealoha Pisciotta Testifies On Maunakea Admin Rules

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August 20, 2021

Produced and directed by Healani Sonoda-Pale. Cinematography by Laura Ullman.

April 12, 2021

By Anne Keala Kelly

March 15, 2021

Letter to Deb Haaland

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March 16, 2021

Press Release

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Originally published by the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review, vol. 43, pages 341-419 (2021)

July 31, 2019

Native Hawaiian activists say state’s business interests favored over indigenous rights to sacred lands.

September 11, 2019

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July 18, 2019

March 22, 2019

This request is submitted by Cultural Survival on behalf of the Indigenous People of Hawai‘i Island. The request details the discrimination that Native Hawaiians have faced due to the support from the State of Hawai‘i and the United States of America for a major development project on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the Pacific and a sacred place for Native Hawaiians.

May 10, 2019

January 31, 2019

Native Hawaiian leaders opposing construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea are taking their grievances beyond the shores of Hawaii to TMT decision-makers and a financier in the Bay Area. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has more.

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September 20, 2017

TMT Case: Kealoha Pisciotta Final Argument

June 13, 2014

Open letter to Mr. Gordon Moore, Co-founder of the Intel Corporation

March 18, 2001

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The following are some principles. This is a working document. They are listed randomly and not in order of importance.

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2010

For 15 years, advocates for Mauna Kea have kept bulldozers off the summit of this sacred mountain.

Kai Palaoa is a native Hawaiian family company and a social enterprise dedicated to promoting the health, well being and survival of our oceans and all life. Our family and Hanai (extended family) are Hawaiian Practitioners *, artists, grass roots activists, inventors, scientists, advocates, surfers, divers, fishers, educators and entrepreneurs who believe change in the world is possible and who dedicate themselves and their work to promote a more beautiful, clean, healthful, sustainable and just world for our future generations.

December 21, 2021

A coalition of conservationists, Indigenous rights advocates, marine scientists, and political leaders highlight damaging potential impacts of deep seabed mining on Pacific communities and islands.

December 16, 2021

Establishment of Time-Area Closures for Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 86 FR 53844, NOAA–NMFS–2021–0091

August 19, 2021

Rev. James Bhagwan moderates our Pacific Blue Line panel with Kealoha Pisciotta from Protect Mauna Kea Movement in Hawaii, Hilda Lini of the Melanesian Institute in Vanuatu, and Colin Philp in Fiji, president of traditional voyaging society, Uto Ni Yalo Trust Fund.

September 20, 2017

Kealoha Pisciotta is a Traditional Knowledge Keeper and Cultural Practitioner. She will be sharing about some of the challenges that Native Hawaiian Practitioners have met with Government and NOAA authorities, in their attempts to maintain the historical and cultural relationships with Kanaloa (Cetaceans) and present a peaceful path forward.

March 31, 2021

Subject: Request to Convene Roundtable Discussions between our Kiaʻi Kanaloa and Hawaiʻi Congressional Delegation to Address and Resolve the Adverse Impacts to Kānaka Maoli in the Implementation and Enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act which has been used Unjustly as a Punitive Tool to Criminalize Native Hawaiian Traditional and Religious Kanaloa Practitioners

August 29, 2019

Associated Press story: Five whales died, including four that were euthanized, after a mass stranding Thursday on a beach on the Hawaii island of Maui.

Ten melon-headed whales were found stranded alive early in the morning on Sugar Beach in the coastal resort community of Kihei.

August 26, 2016

Two Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and an organization dedicated to protecting marine animals are facing federal charges from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a possible $27,000 fine for allegedly violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)

August 4, 2016

Native Hawaiians, marine scientists, conservationists, and the commercial longline fishing industry have been speaking out about U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz’s (D-HI) proposal to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

June 2021

Political ecologies of empire and toxic warfare move beyond confined state boundaries and take us into the fluid depths of the sea. This paper discusses how Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationships to Kanaloa as a deity of the sea interrupt the U.S. empire marine military assemblage and technocratic, machinic way of relating to the sea.