Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. The Tidal Wave of Indigenous Cinema continues to swell with Hawaiian filmmaker Ciara Lacy’s stirring This is the Way We Rise, a poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival. Jamaica is the daughter of Jon Osorio, Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi, an author and renowned songwriter who composed one of my three favorite Aloha “State” songs, “Hawaiian Soul,” about the fabled Native activist George Helm. It seems that Jamaica has picked up not only her talented dad’s way with words but also his commitment to the struggle for the liberation of the Kānaka Maoli (Indigenous people of Hawaiʻi). In