Kauwila Mahi

June 4, 2018 admin Local Staff 0

Daniel Kauwila Mahi is a Hawaiʻi from Kamiloiki, Waimanalo, Oʻahu. He has received an M.A. under Kamakakūokalani School of Hawaiian Knowledge, at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His thesis is Hawaiian Perspectives on Video Games: Oppression, Trauma, Politics andPedagogy. He has worked with street wear brands Paradise Soccer Club
and FITTED Hawaiʻi as a researcher and cultural advisor, working to translate archival documents as well as ancestral stories into clothing
garments. He will be teaching the first Digital Arts elective class in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi at Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Ānuenue a Hawaiian Language Immersion School. He was a Skins 5.0 participant and will be a Skins 6.0 participant.

E kūmaumaua kākou a hoʻomohala ʻia a hoʻoikaika ʻia hoʻi he ʻōnaehana hoʻonaʻauao ʻōiwi i mea e hoʻoikaika ai i ka lāhui. ʻO kā kākou ʻōlelo a me ko kākou ʻike ka ʻāina e ulu ai nei ʻōnaehana. A ʻo ua ʻōnaehana nei, he ʻanoʻano ia e kupu ai a kawowo a lau a muʻo a ʻao a liko a pua nā ulu koa hou o kēia mua aku e alakaʻi ana ma ia mea koʻikoʻi ʻo ke aloha ʻāina.
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Kanaeokana’s mission is to collaboratively develop and strengthen a Native Hawaiian education system—built on a strong ʻōlelo Hawai‘i and ʻike Hawai‘i foundation—to strengthen the lāhui and grow the next generations of aloha ‘āina leaders.

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace is a research network whose goal is to ensure Indigenous presence in online environments, video games, and virtual worlds. Co-founded by Skawennati and Jason Edward Lewis, AbTeC launched IIF in 2015 in partnership with Concordia University, Kahnawake Education Centre, Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center, Kontinónhstats Mohawk Language Custodians Association, Dechinta Bush University Centre for Research and Learning, ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, MacKenzie Gallery, Behaviour Interactive, University of British Columbia Okanagan’s Centre for Indigenous Media Arts, and Western Arctic Moving Pictures.