{"id":141173,"date":"2021-05-11T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=141173"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:56:07","slug":"beamer-hawaiinuiakea-endowed-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/beamer-hawaiinuiakea-endowed-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Beamer selected as inaugural endowed chair at <span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea\">Hawai\u02bbinui\u0101kea<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_141178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141178\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-1.jpg\" alt=\"beamer headshot and hawaiinuiakea building\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea\">Hawai&#699;inui&#257;kea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge<\/a> has welcomed <strong>Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer<\/strong> as its inaugural Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment. Starting August 2021, Beamer will take on the newly established position, named in honor of the revered poet and k&#257;naka maoli (Native Hawaiian) environmental activist. The endowed chair is supported through a $3.2-million gift from the Laurence H. Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/26\/dana-naone-hall-endowed-chair\/\">Newly established Hawaiian studies chair honors poet, activist<\/a>, May 26, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"man playing nose flute\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-k-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beamer plays <span aria-label=\"ohe\">&#699;ohe<\/span> hano ihu (nose flute) during a special ceremony to commemorate his appointment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Naone Hall has changed the political and cultural landscape of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> through a lifetime of protecting sacred places and our people&#8217;s right to our beliefs and religious practices,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea\">Hawai&#699;inui&#257;kea<\/span> Dean <strong>Jonathan <span aria-label=\"Kamakawiwoole\">Kamakawiwo&#699;ole<\/span> Osorio<\/strong>. &ldquo;Along with her husband Issac, Dana has created legal and conceptual paths for K&#257;naka Maoli to walk beside our ancestors as we live and work in this modern world. Kamanamaikalani Beamer has followed those trails and inspires our people to become skilled in our traditional practices as well as in policy and law to protect and nurture our <span aria-label=\"aina\">&#699;&#257;ina<\/span> (land).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Beamer is a professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/kamakakuokalani\/\">Kamakak&#363;okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies<\/a> in the Hui <span aria-label=\"Aina\">&#699;&#256;ina<\/span> Momona Program at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa with a joint appointment in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> and <span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea.\">Hawai&#699;inui&#257;kea.<\/span> He has conducted extensive research and penned numerous academic publications on governance, land tenure and Hawaiian resource management.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141187\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-hall-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Hall wearing lei\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-hall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-hall-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-hawaiinuiakea-beamer-hall.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chair namesake, Dana Naone Hall is the guest of honor at the ceremony announcing Beamer as endowed chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The life of Dana Naone Hall, a lei entwined with intricate strands of aloha, literary mastery, unwavering commitment toward the <span aria-label=\"aina,\">&#699;&#257;ina,<\/span> political pragmatism, and her own self-professed &lsquo;problems with authority&rsquo;&#8212;are nothing short of legendary,&rdquo; said Beamer. &ldquo;It is a tremendous honor to have been selected by the committee as the inaugural Dana Naone Hall Chair. I want to mahalo the amazing community collaborators and <span aria-label=\"aina\">&#699;&#257;ina<\/span>-based organizations who made my proposal possible. We are going to make a run over the next five years toward a more equitable economy and just society for our people and <span aria-label=\"aina\">&#699;&#257;ina<\/span>. We are going to continue to speak the truth to power and to produce scholarship that highlights the integral role of our ancestral knowledge in achieving ecological peace and social justice in our world at a time we need it most; we are going to mentor students and uplift the brilliance of our community aloha <span aria-label=\"aina\">&#699;&#257;ina<\/span> as we work toward liberation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The endowed chair was created to teach and inspire students to perpetuate Hawaiian knowledge and contribute Indigenous land and resource management research in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> to push for policy change. Naone Hall, the chair\u2019s namesake, has worked for decades to honor and protect Hawaiian burial sites, primarily on Maui, when planned development threatened access by Native Hawaiians and the public to culturally important locations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dana Naone Hall devoted a lifetime to promote and protect Native Hawaiian culture,&rdquo; said Jeffrey Peterson, president of the Dorcy Foundation. &ldquo;The Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation is so very pleased to have the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> announce that Dr. Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer will be the inaugural chair of the Native Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment, endowed in her name. We are excited about the impact he will make as he helps carry on Dana\u2019s important work. His leadership will infuse future generations with the values and knowledge key to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Hawai&#699;i\u2019s<\/span> future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More on Beamer<\/h2>\n<p>Beamer has served as director of <span aria-label=\"ainabased\">&#699;&#257;ina-based<\/span> education at Kamehameha Schools, which helped prepare him for an ongoing role as director of Stanford University&#8217;s First Nations Futures Institute, a development program for Indigenous leaders. In 2014, he published No M&#257;kou ka Mana: Liberating the Nation, which received multiple awards including the Samuel M. Kamakau Book of the Year Award from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Book Publishing Association. Beamer comes from a long line of highly-acclaimed educators, composers and musicians in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii.\">Hawai&#699;i.<\/span> He is the great-great-grandson of legendary Hawaiian composer Helen Desha Beamer and son of award-winning recording artist Kapono Beamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer will serve as the Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,33,551,1503,9,68],"class_list":["post-141173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiinuiakea-school-of-hawaiian-knowledge","tag-kamakakuokalani-center-for-hawaiian-studies","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141175,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141173\/revisions\/141175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}