Hāwane Rios

Aloha ‘Āina, Chanter, Singer, Songwriter standing for the rights of our sacred lands of Hawai‘inuiākea.

[Island News @KITV4]

UPDATE | Crews will begin deconstructing the Caltech Telescope observatory atop Mauna Kea on Monday, Sept. 25. https://t.co/ECo6ehNYnQ

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That part

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Seriously tho

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@stephan_harper @QarenComplaints @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @EAducator @aina_momona The white interpretation of Christianity was the worst thing Christian people used to assimilate/force indigenous people into believing and perpetuating. There is no diversity in your perspectives which is why you are the way you are and there’s no changing that for you. Bye ✌🏾

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@stephan_harper @QarenComplaints @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @EAducator @aina_momona Wow you really have the time today. I’m not engaging with you any more. You are not open, you are not teachable. In fact your words and actions are harmful and do reflect “your support for Hawaiian activism” at all.

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@stephan_harper @QarenComplaints @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @EAducator @aina_momona Actually shame on you

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@stephan_harper @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @QarenComplaints @EAducator @aina_momona What a tired and weak reply. Get off my page.

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@stephan_harper @EAducator @joeboy06 @aina_momona I expect these kinds of comments from people who are rootless and still have the audacity to be ruthless. This is an opportunity for you to quiet yourself and actually learn something about living in right relationship with the earth and indigenous communities.

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@stephan_harper @QarenComplaints @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @EAducator @aina_momona Coming here to this thread with your extremely limited knowledge about our history and your profoundly weak talking points is just another prime example of how exhausting it is for us to engage in conversation with people who are committed to not listening.

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@stephan_harper @QarenComplaints @joeboy06 @mbbarnyard @EAducator @aina_momona @stephan_harper Stop. Just stop. What you are doing is harmful. It’s not engaging in open dialog, it’s gaslighting and abusive. I am a living descendant of those who survived the battle of Kuamo’o and continued to believe in our living culture in our own living homelands.

[Hāwane Rios @hawanemusic]

He kīho‘iho‘i kanawai
My boundaries and my body are sacred and will be treated as such

All women’s bodies are sacred and our own.
Our choices for our own bodies, our own ea, are our own and should never be policed, regulated, or violated by anyone. Ever.

[Hāwane Rios @hawanemusic]

My body is sovereign land
Governed by Papa, Mother Earth
My body is sovereign land
Guided by the mana of my womb
My body is sovereign land
Protected by the prayers of my mother, her mother, her mother
From before, before and before
My body is sovereign land

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Where my chants quake me to life⠀
Where my dance floats on indigo oceans ⠀
Where my ea lives ⠀
Where my aloha ‘āina thrives ⠀
Where I remember my power⠀
Where I hold my mana close⠀
Where I let my mana erupt with discipline ⠀
Where my mauli fire burns⠀
And steams⠀

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Where I find the answers to all of my questions ⠀
Where my lightning lives ⠀
Where I crack open and let love in⠀
Where I tremble and make pa‘akai beds full of forgiveness and time⠀
Where I heal⠀
Where my songs light my sky like a full moon rising ⠀

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My sacred womb
Is where my creation lives⠀
Where my prayers bubble like head water springs ⠀
Where my grandmothers sit and tell me stories⠀
Where my blood churns like pele and bursts forth to make new land⠀
Where I return home to rest⠀

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And the way I create
The way I move
The way I choose
Is my decision
Is my power
Is my voice
Is my own

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We are taking it all back

For the love of all that we are
All that we have been
And all that we will become
And for the love of all who will come after us

E hū ē!
Together We Rise!

[Hāwane Rios @hawanemusic]

‘America The Great’

America The Great
Tragedy
America The Great
Massacre
America The Great
Shame

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And we are taking our rights back
Our land back
Our bodies back
Our stories back
Our songs back
Our dances back
Our cultures back

We are taking it all back

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After everything their fathers, and forefathers, and founding fathers have done to end us…
We are still here
The Indigenous People of this earth, this great mass, and this great ocean are still here
And we are rising

[Hāwane Rios @hawanemusic]

But was made,and who made us, to live in right relationship with and sacred connection to, for as long as humans walk this planet.