Alder Building, 111

Hokulani Aikau is a Native Hawaiian anthropologist whose work has been widely recognized in Hawaiʻi, the broader Pacific,and in the US. Professor Aikau is an associate professor of Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her first book, A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi (University of Minnesota, 2012), illuminates the intersections of race, colonization, and religion within the larger political context of indigenous self-determination. Her presentation at UO brings together conversations in Indigenous feminisms and environmental studies to share her ethnographic experiences collaborating with a Hawaiian non-profit working to restore wetland taro farming in Hawaiʻi.