Indigenous Peoples' Day - Dr. Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua
Dr. Noelani Goodyear-Ka\u02bb\u014dpua (she/her) is a Kanaka Maoli from O\u2018ahu, Hawai\u02bbi. She is professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa, where she teaches Hawaiian and Indigenous politics. Noe has published articles and books on Hawaiian social movements, Indigenous education and decolonial future-making, including The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (2013), A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty (2014), The Value of Hawai\u02bbi, 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions (2014), and N\u0101 W\u0101hine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization (2019). She is a co-founder of H\u0101lau K\u016b M\u0101na public charter school and an active board member for the K\u0101neh\u016bn\u0101moku Voyaging Academy and Hui o Kuap\u0101 Keawanui, both of which use Native Hawaiian ocean-based technologies and practices to help create resilient Indigenous futures. Her academic and activist work are part of a lifetime commitment to aloha \u2018aina. Her most treasured role is being a mom to her three children. In this interview, Priya Prabhakar and Dr. Goodyear-Ka\u02bb\u014dpua talk about Dr. Goodyear-Ka\u02bb\u014dpua\u2019s ancestral lineage of Hawai\u2019ian freedom fighters that caused her to do what she does today, Indigenous futurisms and inspirations from Afrofuturisms and Octavia Butler, the struggle against the building of the TMT telescope on the sacred mountain of Mauna a W\u0101kea, her various books that focus on the struggle for Hawai\u2019ian sovereignty, and the Indigenous concept of \u201cea."