Pure Manaʻo

Background: These final questions came out of an Indigenous Mixed Methods Convening held as a post conference workshop for the 50th Pacific Circle Consortium Conference, May 19-23, 2026 on the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa campus. At the end of the day, these are the four questions to chew before we were sent home to ponder further.  Source: For question 1, we were given the appendix from the Moanaroa Pacific Research Guidelines, a publication out of the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Moanaroa Pacific Research Network:  https://moanaroa.aut.ac.nz/pacific-research-guidelines As our own collective, we were just given the appendix:  Moanaroa Pacific Research Guidelines_Appendix The question and my thinking-out-loud sense-making (a dialogic with myself) are based on Table 1, "Examples of Pacific Methodologies," in the Appendix.  He Nīnau: What stands out to you in Moanaroa Pacific Research? He Manaʻo: Based on a quick glance and a few deeper dives -- • Tonga and S...

This is only day 1 in my year of sacred reading and writing. I have 364 days left so based on my experience with the year of Sunday dinners (that has continued for six years in two different households now), I know there are certain key elements for success: Blogging makes me accountable, even if no one is reading it but me Tagging helps me (the main reader) find things easily, whether it's a recipe or an article that I need for a paper. Figuring out the logistics and format early on helps alleviate the chore of writing. That is why romance novelists can pump out more books than say George R.R. Martin . Not everything is going to be or has to be profound or totally earth shattering. I just need enough so I remember what I was thinking. Organization is not a suggestion. I keep my highlighted articles in my Evernote (above) and keep my Adobe Acrobrat Pro subscription current at all times. I am working on organizing my Evernote into folders and tag, tag, tag. Key words ar...

While I am working on and finishing my dissertation, I need a research journal that can be more spontaneous and less planned or themed, so this has moved. Alana Research Journal

"From the vantage point of the colonized, a position from which I write, and choose to privilege, the term 'research' is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. The word itself, 'research,' is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world's vocabulary." ( Tuhiwai Smith , 1999) Paula Moya, a Chicana researcher says, "identities are fundamental to the process of all knowledge production" ( p. 102 ).   Like Tuhiwai Smith, I must also embrace my identity as a colonized researcher.  Moya goes on to say that education,  "should not be about merely inculcating status quo values,"  but to reject the status quo as a way to inculcate a "transformative multicultural education" that will educate all learners for democracy and social justice  (p. 109). The Alana Project, starting with this professional development course, which becomes my dissertation action research, sees transformative multicu...