Tours

Location: ʻIolani Palace grounds and surrounding area
Date/Time: Friday, April 3, 2026, 1-3pm
Ticket Price: $20
CAP: 15 participants
Transportation: Participants must arrange their own transportation to the site (taxi, ride share, bike share, or bus are all options). The site is around a 20 minute drive from Hilton Hawaiian Village, depending on traffic.

Meet at 1pm at the Eternal Flame memorial, 356-420 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, HI 96813-2420 (There pull-in off Beretania St. that people use for drop-offs, and the memorial area has benches where early arrivals can hang out. There is also a major bus stop at Punchbowl and Beretania.)

Duration: 1-3pm for tour (2 hours)
Accessibility: Walking tour is wheelchair accessible. No ASL interpretation. Not scent free.
Contact/Organizer: Maile Arvin, [email protected]

Description:
This huakaʻi consists of a walking tour of important historical sites in downtown Honolulu, including Washington Place (the home of Queen Liliʻuokalani and now the home of Hawaiʻi’s governor) and the grounds of ʻIolani Palace and the Hawaiʻi State Capitol.

Dr. Travis Hancock, curator at Washington Place, will start at the Eternal Flame Pearl Harbor memorial and continue along Beretania Street, offering history of the street and Washington Place. The tour will also include a look at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, where Dr. Hancock will discuss the Queen’s relationship to the church/school, especially during the overthrow. The second part of the tour will be led by Zita Cup Choy, ʻIolani Palace historian, who will offer further insights around the grounds of ʻIolani Palace.

Please note that this is a walking tour and will not include entry inside of Washington Place (which will be closed for renovations) nor inside of ʻIolani Palace (participants can make their own reservations for tours through ʻIolani Palace’s website if desired).

Participants should be prepared to walk several urban blocks and bring sunscreen and water. Lunch is not provided with the tour, but participants are welcome to get lunch on their own in downtown Honolulu beforehand. Other free attractions in the area include: the Capitol Modern state art museum and the Judiciary History Center museum https://www.jhchawaii.org/

Location: Puʻu o Kaimukī Mini Park (951 Koko Head Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816-2309)
Date/Time: Friday, April 3, 2026, 4-6pm
Ticket Price: $15
CAP: 12 participants
Transportation: Participants must arrange their own transportation to the site (taxi, ride share, bike share, or bus are all options).

Meet at 4pm at 951 Koko Head Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816-2309. The site is around a 15-20 minute drive from Hilton Hawaiian Village.

Food will not be provided, but the site is proximate to Kaimukī, an area with many restaurants and shops that participants may want to visit after the activity.

Duration: 4-6pm for activity (2 hours)
Accessibility: Site is not wheelchair accessible. No ASL interpretation. Not scent free.
Contact/Organizer: Maile Arvin, [email protected]

Description:
This huakaʻi will join a regularly scheduled clean-up activity hosted by the nonprofit 808 Cleanups, and led by Hawaiian cultural practitioner Kumu Kimeona Kane. The site is an urban park in Kaimukī, with 360 views of Honolulu. Work may include invasive species removal, digging and cutting out invasive grasses and haole koa to make way for native plants, as well as litter removal. The park is also the site of a heiau named Kukuionāpēhā which is in the process of being restored. Kumu Kimeona will share about that process and the site’s history. Participants should be prepared to work (bring sunscreen, hats, clothes that can get dirty, water bottles) and demonstrate respect to a sacred Native Hawaiian site.

Location: Hilton Hawaiian Village
Date/Time: Saturday, April 4, 2026
Ticket Price: $100
CAP: 24 people
Transportation: Enoa Tours
Duration: 8 am – 2 pm (6 hours)
Accessibility: Not wheelchair accessible. No ASL interpretation. Not scent-free.

• Wear comfortable clothes and shoes for sun. Bring a water bottle, hat, sunscreen, and any medication or snacks you may need. We will walk short distances.
• Lunch Included Bento for $12 (chicken, fish, or vegetarian). You will get additional information 2 weeks prior to the tour.

Description:
This cultural and political tour interrogates the United States’ hidden-in-plain-sight occupation and militarization of Hawaiʻi. We begin with a brief visit to the ʻIolani Palace, the scene of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and a vibrant space of ea—life, breath, rising, and sovereignty. We then turn our critical gaze to “Pearl Harbor”, the military base that invaded Puʻuloa and became a pivot of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific. We will stop at Camp Smith, the headquarters of the US Indo-Pacific Command, and consider Hawaiʻi’s geopolitical role in this region. Then we will visit the Pearl Harbor National Memorial and do a critical reading of the exhibit to consider how “Pearl Harbor” perpetuates the myth of U.S. innocence. A running theme of the tour is the revitalization of Kanaka ʻŌiwi place names and stories that animate the landscape in ways that unsettle the U.S. military claims to Puʻuloa. The final stop is Hanakēhau Farm, a project on the perimeter of the naval base, where Kanaka ʻŌiwi organizers are growing organizing skills for Hawaiian liberation. The tour will be led by Kyle Kajihiro, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and long time demilitarization activist.

Location: Mokauea Island, hosted by Mauliola Keʻehi (led by Kēhaulani Souza Kupihea, coordinated by Candace Fujikane), outrigger canoe paddling and reef walking
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Ticket Price: $65 for children and graduate students; $115 for faculty and researchers, covers bus transportation to the Sand Island Launch Facility and a donation to Hoʻōla Keʻehi for use of three outrigger canoes and honorarium for six volunteer crew members. Non-vegetarian lunch will be ordered and paid for two weeks before the huakaʻi.
CAP: 50 people
Transportation: Bus pick-up and return to Hilton Hawaiian Village lobby.
Duration: 7:45am–1:30 pm (5.5 hours)
Accessibility: Conference participants who choose to attend this tour will be required to board canoes in shallow water and paddle on an outrigger canoe for ten minutes to get to Mokauea and to return to Sand Island. Adult and child life vests available. Wear clothes that can get wet, sunscreen, hat, reef walkers and bring water and snacks.

Mauliola Keʻehi (keehi.org) is a Kanaka Maoli holistic health non-profit organization, based at the historic tidal islands of Keʻehi, that inspires participants to transformative healing through an ocean-focused therapy for collective mental health and environmental justice. Our program is rooted in Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge that reconnects individuals via waʻa (Hawaiian outrigger canoe) with the kai (ocean), ʻāina (land), hana noʻeau (art) and moʻolelo (ancestral stories) of Keʻehi—a sacred area with a legacy of navigation, shark riding, and healing. Our program curriculum, Kilo Kino (Deep observation of the body), fosters resiliency.

Keʻehi means “to embrace with one’s feet,” a beautiful name for the reef flats of Keʻehi lagoon. We will paddle by canoe to Mokauea, a 10-acre islet, site of Oʻahu’s last Hawaiian fishing village, and one of the only two left in Hawaiʻi. In 1975, houseless Kanaka Maoli residents were evicted by the state and officers set fire to their homes, resulting in a landmark lawsuit. Today, Mauliola Keʻehi works to restore Indigenous waterscapes, and participants will have the opportunity to contribute to these restoration efforts while embracing the reef flats with their feet.

Location: ʻAihualama in the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2026
Time: 9am – 1 pm
Ticket Price: $60
CAP: 50 ppl
Transportation: Bus pick-up and return to Hilton Hawaiian Village lobby.
Duration:  9am-1pm (lunch included)- Meet in the lobby at 8:50 am
Accessibility: Not accessible to wheelchair users.
Lunch Included: Bento Lunch from Fukuya

Description:
Led by Kumu ʻImaikalani Winchester a prominent cultural practitioner, educator and organizer and one of the original teachers who helped found Hālau Kū Māna, AAAS conference participants are invited to a work day at the school’s loʻi named ʻAihualama. Hālau Kū Māna is a Native Hawaiian public charter school that among other things uses its curriculum to teach students how to grow and prepare their own food. Participants will learn the moʻolelo (stories and histories) of Mānoa Valley, learn about the loʻi by cleaning the ʻauwai (irrigation ditch that transports water from the stream to the taro fields), and whatever other work is required that day. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty.

In her book, The Seeds We Planted: Portaits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua writes of ʻAihualama: “[t]he marginalization and suppression of Indigenous knowledges has gone hand in hand with the transformation and degradation of Indigenous economic systems and the ecosystems that nourish us. Conversely, settler-colonial relations might be transformed by rebuilding, in new ways, the Indigenous structures that have historically sustianed our societies.” This way of living being restored by Kanaka like ʻImaikalani and his students only required people to work 15-25 hours per month. This is a freedom that is unimaginable to many living today. For questions, email [email protected].