Hi‘iaka Working Group

Hi‘iaka Working Group

Our philosophical foundation lies in understanding the shift from nature as resources for consumption to nature as familial relations where human responsibility shifts from managing things to nurturing relationships.

The Hi‘iaka Working Group is focused on developing new techniques and technologies to represent Indigenous ecological knowledge with the goal of sustaining resilient landscapes. Our philosophical foundation lies in understanding the shift from nature as resources for consumption to nature as familial relations where human responsibility shifts from managing things to nurturing relationships. Our mission reflects that of the Indigenous Geographies Research Center in that we are committed to research that resituates the human in ecological terms and the non-human in ethical terms.

The Working Group collaborates with the Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation of Hilo, Hawai‘i, the Resilience and Adaptive Management Group of the University of Alaska-Anchorage, and the Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre of Newcastle, Australia.