Uahikea Maile

Uahikea is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Maunawili, Oʻahu. His research interests include: history, law, and social movements concerning Hawaiian sovereignty; Indigenous critical theory; settler colonialism; political economy; feminist and queer theories; and decolonization. They are finishing a book manuscript—Nā Makana Ea: Settler Colonial Capitalism and the Gifts of Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi—examining the historical development and contemporary formation of settler colonial capitalism in Hawaiʻi and the gifts of sovereignty that seek to overturn it by issuing responsibilities for balancing relationships with ʻāina, the land and that who feeds.