About Us

Aloha mai kākou,

ʻO wau nō kēia ʻo Kuʻuipo, naʻu i hoʻokumu iā Download Hawaiʻi. He pua, he mamo o ka ʻāina hoʻopulapula ʻo Kalāwahine. Ua hele akula wau i ke kula ʻo Kamehameha ma Kapālama mai ka papa mālaaʻo a hiki loa i ka puka ʻana aku i ke kula kiʻekiʻe. A laila au i komo ai i ka papahana Haʻawina Hawaiʻi ma o ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma lalo o ke koleke ʻo Ka Haka ʻUla ʻo Keʻelikōlani ma ke kula nui ma Hilo. I kēia manawa, he kumu au ma Hālau ʻŌlaʻa, Hawaiʻi. 

 

Aloha kākou, My name is Kuʻuipo and I am a kanaka maoli and educator in Hawaiʻi. I make educational resources integrating Hawaiian language and culture. 

I originally started Download Hawaiʻi as a youtube station in 2017 to help provide ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi resources to my ʻohana keiki looking to take back our language and re-indigenize our learning. Hawaiian language was banned in Hawaiʻi education from 1896 until 1986. Since then we as a people have been fighting to bring back our ʻōlelo makuahine and instill the ways of our kūpuna into the next generations so they can be proud of our culture and heritage, something that colonizers took away from our people for generations. Later I started my own papa ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi classes and offered tutoring. Now I teach in the classroom full time, I teach the keiki o ka ʻāina o Puna & Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi.