A prolific scholar, inspiring educator, lucid poet and unapologetic orator.

Haunani K Trask set the standard for Kanaka Maoli as a widely cherished indigenous nationalist leader of the modern Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

A Mehe, Koa, and Manawahina of the Lahui Hawaii. The Lahui, our collective people and nation with its diverse communities, are freer today because of Hounanique.

Because of, as she described,

her slyly reproductive ideas, activism, prose, advocacy,

solidarity, and art. we are that much closer to freedom, to decolonization, to liberation,

and to the revolution.

Into our light I will go forever. Into our seaweed, clouds and salt warm sea birds.

Into our winds swept eukai burnt sands gleaming.

Into our sanctuaries of hushed bamboo awash in amber, into the passion of our parted coolau, luminous vulva, into Kane's pendulous

breadfruit, resinous with seaman.

Desended from Pilani of Maui and Kaku Makalika of Kawaii.

Haunani K Trask was born on October 3rd, 1949 on Olone lands in the territory of

Rametush in what is now called San Francisco.

One of five children to Huanani and Bernard Trask,

she and her Ohana returned to Hawaii

and resided in the district of Coelau Poco on Oahu.

Haunani Kay graduated from the Komehemaha Schools in 1967,

then attended the University of Chicago where she supported and learned from the Black Panther Party.

Exhausted by the fear and violence there, she wrote in the context of the police killing of Fred Hampton.

Hahnani K.

transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

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