“The land is immortal. Man is mortal. Therefore how can man possibly own land?”

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Herb Kawainui Kane (herb kah-vah-ee-new-ee kah-nay)

artist and storyteller

IMAGE SOURCE: Karin Stanton. Photo in “Artist, historian and author Herb Kane dies.” Hawaii 24/7. 9 Mar. 2011. | TEXT SOURCE: “Children of the Long Canoes.” DVD. Dir by Albert & Trudy Kallis. 1991.

IMAGE SOURCE: Karin Stanton. Photo in “Artist, historian and author Herb Kane dies.” Hawaii 24/7. 9 Mar. 2011. | TEXT SOURCE: “Children of the Long Canoes.” DVD. Dir by Albert & Trudy Kallis. 1991.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “We felt a covenant relationship to everything else in nature, all one big family.”

QUOTE QUESTION: Have did people come to believe that they owned the land?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Herb next to his portrait, “Ka’ahumanu.” She was regent of the Kingdom of Hawai’i during the reign of King Kamehameha I.

IMAGE QUESTION: What ancestor do you stand next to?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a film about a Hawaiian artist. The photo is from a local news site on Hawaii’s Big Island.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How widely would you spread information about your people and why?

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