HANALEI — Restoring canoes, said Kamealoha Hanohano Smith, is just the beginning.
The Hanalei River Heritage Foundation of which he is the director has bigger plans to share Hawaiian culture and traditions.
“Everybody is getting excited about teaching youth how to monitor coastline resources and also teaching them about traditional food systems,” he said.
The foundation recently received a $19,000 First Nations grant, and has raised just over another $10,000.
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