Lilikalā K. Kame'eleihiwa

Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa is an associate professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Center for Hawaiian Studies. Her earliest work was published under the name of Lilikala L. Dorton. She is a writer, translator, historian, activist and artist fluent in Hawaiian.

“We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.”