Welina: Traditional and Contemporary Ways of Welcome and Hospitality Pacific Island The second in a series

The second in a series of children’s picture books about Hawaiian goddesses

Spennemann is a recipient of the Governor’s Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Publication from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Up-to-date cartography

When the lava flow of 1881 threatened the town of Hilo

He was raised in the plantation village of Waipahū

Welina: Traditional and Contemporary Ways of Welcome and Hospitality Pacific Island The second in a seriesHawaii may be the Aloha State, but what is traditional Hawaiian protocol? That was the challenge Hawaiians faced in 1985 when the first large group of Maori came to Honolulu to pay tribute to their relation, Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck, at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum where he had been the director. How were they greeted? What was the to be done? Welina, also a traditional term used for greeting, explores what traditional welcomes were like and