Haunani-Kay Trask (Photo credit: Kapulani Landgraf)
Hearts are heavy across Hawaiʻi and the world as many mourn the death of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Emerita
Haunani-Kay Trask. Loved ones confirmed the exemplary Native Hawaiian scholar died on Saturday, July 3.
Trask who retired in 2010, started her extensive academic career at
UH Mānoa in 1981 as an assistant professor in the American studies department with expertise in feminist theory and Indigenous studies. She is credited with co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian studies and went on to become the founding director of the
UH Mānoa Center for Hawaiian Studies.
Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer as its inaugural Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment. Starting August 2021, Beamer will take on the newly established position, named in honor of the revered poet and kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) environmental activist. The endowed chair is supported through a $3.2-million gift from the Laurence H. Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation.
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Beamer plays ʻohe hano ihu (nose flute) during a special ceremony to commemorate his appointment.
“Naone Hall has changed the political and cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi through a lifetime of protecting sacred places and our people’s right to our beliefs and religious practices,” said Hawaiʻinuiākea Dean
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