| 1 )
moʻolelo |
stories
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| 2 )
mele |
a song; traditional Hawaiian poetry
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| 3 )
kuleana |
responsibility, rights, duty
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| 4 )
create |
to make, invent, or establish
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| 5 )
destroy |
to demolish or wipe out; to ruin something
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| 6 )
acre |
a unit for measuring area, 43,560 square feet
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| 7 )
Kahiki |
an ancestral homeland, thought to be the island of the South Pacific
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| 8 )
suitable |
right for the purpose
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| 9 )
caldera |
a large crater on top of a volcano
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| 10 )
ancestor |
a distant relative that someone is descended from
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| 11 )
ʻaumakua |
an ancestral family guardian that takes on the form of an animal
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| 12 )
protocol |
rules for behavior, a code of conduct
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| 13 )
hoʻokupu |
a gift or tribute
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| 14 )
ʻaumākua |
The word ʻaumākua is the plural form of ʻaumakua
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