HWST 107 EXam 1/62 Questions
and Answers
Identify: Aliʻi - -Maintain their moʻokūʻauhau
• Maintain pure bloodlines through incestual relationships
• Preserve status/rank through strict kapu (taboos/restrictions)
• Main responsibility: Provide leadership; organize society & maintain pono
-Identify Kahuna - -• Priests and master craftsmen (experts in medicine,
religion, technology, natural resource management, engineering, etc.)
-Identify Makaʻāinana - -• People who tend to the land
• laborers, cultivators, fishermen, house and canoe builders, bird catchers
who collected feathers for capes, cloaks, and helmets
-What role does each group of people play in ancient Hawaiian
society? - -
-Identify Mōʻī - -
-Memorize the traditional Hawaiian society triangle - -
-What are the main arguments for geothermal activity in Hawaiʻi? - -
Hawaiian Energy
• Cut greenhouse gases & combat global warming
• Support HI energy sustainability goals
• Best renewable energy source (more reliable
than solar or wind)
• Reduce energy costs
, -What are the main arguments against Hawaiian geothermal? - -Cultural,
Environmental, & Health Arguments
• Illegal land swap of "ceded lands"
• Violation of Native gathering rights;
restrictive access
• Nature based religion:
- Affect the mana of Pele
- Destruction of forests (Wao Kele o Puna)
• Respiratory issues
-Why is the "clean & safe record" touted by geothermal supporters
misleading? - -
-Why does the Department of Healthʻs policy of "self-monitoring" not work? -
-(State) Industry is self-regulating - No reporting = no problem.
• (County) Civil Defense conducts NO monitoring in downwind communities.
• (PGV) Insufficient monitoring of water migration patterns to know exactly
how the environment is affect
-How much of Hawaiʻi Islandʻs energy comes from geothermal? - -• PGV
supplies 20% of Hawai'i island's electricity
-How does Hawaiʻi Island electricity rates compare to other major islands? -
-• For the past 30 years, Hawai'i Island averaged 20% higher electricity rates
than other islands
-Nā Akua Hawaiʻi - -Hawaiian Gods
-What does Hoʻomana mean? - -
--Why do Indigenous religions elevate and worship natural elements? - -
-Identify the 4 main male akua in Hawaiian society? - -Kanaloa, KĀNE, Lono,
KŪ
-Kanaloa 1 of the 4 main male akua in Hawaiian society - -AKUA: DEEP
OCEAN,
FISHING, VOYAGING, (HEALING, OCEAN WINDS)
- Associated with death
- Brother/companion of Kāne - create
water sources
-KĀNE 1 of the 4 main male akua in Hawaiian society - -KĀNE
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