The 2025 reprint of Mai Paʻa I Ka Leo has arrived! Now available in softcover.

In just over a century, from 1834 to 1948, Hawaiian writers filled 125,000 pages in nearly 100 different newspapers with their writings. Though scholars have generated entire books of history and legend with what they’ve extracted from these papers, only a tiny fraction, less than one percent of the whole, has been translated and published. Not only do these translations inadequately represent even the originals from which they were taken. Author M. Puakea Nogelmeier highlights the need to recognize and reincorporate the full array of historical Hawaiian resources into the foundations of current knowledge.

This book focuses on how Hawaiian knowledge from the past has been handled in a basically English-speaking world, and highlights the need to recognize and reincorporate the full array of historical Hawaiian resources into the foundations of current knowledge.