Aloha Quest (six-hour broadcast)
December 19, 1999
KFVE television, Honolulu
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On Sunday, December 19, 1999, a historic six-hour educational television presentation was broadcast Kingdom-wide on KFVE. The "educast" was simultaneously webcast to the world over the Internet. Featuring a mix of live interviews, musical performances, and pre-recorded segments, the entire six hours was brought to the Hawai'i community (and the world) commercial free.
Co-produced by Aloha First and Na Maka o ka 'Aina, the program sought to bring the issue of Hawaiian independence into the public eye.
Hosted by Ed Ka'ahea, Iaukea Bright and Ka'iulani Edens, the telecast featured interviews with many prominent spokespeople in government, law, education and the arts. Various historians, educators, cultural experts, artists, actors and activists shared their knowledge of history and culture and expressed views on the contemporary case for sovereignty.
Especially significant were segments presenting new historical findings regarding the legal basis for the existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the popular opposition to U.S. annexation in 1898.
This transcript includes:
Recorded segments
- Kumulipo - Kekuni Blaisdell
- History of Health - Kekuni Blaisdell
- The Hawaiian Kingdom - Keanu Sai
- What is a Hawaiian Subject - Keanu Sai
- Attempted Overthrow of 1893 - Keanu Sai
- Tears of a Nation - Kamehameha Schools hula ensemble
- Anti-annexation petitions - Noenoe Silva, Jon Osorio, Kekuni Blaisdell
- The Annexation That Never Was - Keanu Sai
- August 12, 1998 Centennial speeches
- Early 900's newsreel of Lili'uokalani: Westward Bound
- Internal Laws of the U.S. - Keanu Sai
- Supreme Court and International Courts - Keanu Sai
- U.S. Senate debate: Apology resolution, Oct. 1993 - Esther Kiaaina, Keanu Sai, Francis Boyle
- United Church of Christ Apology, 1993 - Rev. Tuck Wah Lee, Rev. Paul Sherry
- Aloha March on Washington - Butch Kekahu, Puanani Rogers
- Kanu o ka 'Aina Hawaiian Academy - Ku Kahakalau
- 'Aha Punana Leo animations - Kainani Kahaunaele
- Mauna Kea - Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele
- Ola Na Iwi, repatriation of ancestral remains - Eddie Ayau, Kunani Nihipali, Ipo Nihipali
- Ceded Lands lawsuit - William Meheula
- Epistemology - Manu Aluli Meyer
interviews:
Keoni Agard
Colleen Hanabusa
Leo Anderson Akana
Thurston Twigg-Smith
Tom Coffman
Poka Laenui
Ray Soon
Collin Kippen
Kaleo Patterson
Kunani Nihipali
Calvin Hoe
Liko Hoe
Tamara Watson-Wade
Eric Yamamoto
Owana Salazar
Henry Noa
John Waihe'e
Charley Rose
A'o Pohaku Rodenhurst
Bumpy Kanahele
Kehaulani Filimoe'atu
Soli Niheu
Ho'oipo Nakea Pa
emcees:
Ed Ka'ahea
Iaukea Bright
Ka'iulani Edens
