Authors: Aloha, Kanoe Woodward...research and content Kauai Natural Area Reserve Jeffrey Santos...design and formatting As a person of Hawaiian ancestry, I entered Cava-lei Wilson...NARS Logo Ethnobotanical guide: into this AmeriCorps internship with a limited Hawaiian Flora background in plants and their connection with ola (life). “Ua lehulehu a manomano ka’ikena a ka Hawaii.” Natural Area Reserve System (NARS) is a ~ program that protects the native Hawaiian “Great and numerous is the ecosystem from invasive plants and wild life. I knowledge of the Hawaiian people.” desired to learn more about the plants that we help protect. I chose several plants that were a part of the NARS program and researched them “Inã akahele to gain information. kou ne’e, a mãlie kou na’au. The Hawaiian people were an oral culture. They shared their wisdom and knowledge to the Hiki ke lohe ka ulu younger generation by teaching them numerous lã’au o ka na’auao.” values. Such as, how to pick the right tree for a surfboard papa( he’enalu), which plant could be used for healing, or how to weeve a basket to catch fish for their family. In years since, this Special Thanks knowledge slowly has become lost. Hopefully Mike Wysong - NARS Program Manager - Kauai Chris Mottley - NARS Specialist - Kauai when you read this, you could share this with Cava-lei Wilson - NARS AmeriCorps Inten whomever you come across, and bring back Additional Resources: what our kupuna (ancestors) used to do. -www.canoeplants.com/wauke.html -www.nativeplants.edu -http://hawaiihistory.org/ -Abbott, Isabella Aiona. “La’au Hawai’i: traditional Hawaiian uses of plants” copyright 1992. -Krauss, Beatrice H.,“Plants in Hawaiian Culture” copyright 1993.

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