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Kumu Hula Paul K. Neves resides in Keaukaha-Hilo, Hawai’i on
Hawaiian Homelands with his wife Wanda Mokihana, and his son
Kinohi. Their daughter Akalā is a student at the University of
Portland.
Kumu Paul has been a Kumu Hula since 1999 and is a student of
Kumu Hula Wayne Kaho’onei Panoke who was 'uniki (graduated)
in 1968 from the late Kumu Hula Winona Napuailohiaanonokalani
Desha-Beamer.
Kumu Paul opened Hālau Ha’a Kea o Akalā in 1998. This hālau is
Hawaiian Homelands with his wife Wanda Mokihana, and his son
Kinohi. Their daughter Akalā is a student at the University of
Portland.
Kumu Paul has been a Kumu Hula since 1999 and is a student of
Kumu Hula Wayne Kaho’onei Panoke who was 'uniki (graduated)
in 1968 from the late Kumu Hula Winona Napuailohiaanonokalani
Desha-Beamer.
Kumu Paul opened Hālau Ha’a Kea o Akalā in 1998. This hālau is
now under the direction of his daughter, Kumu Hula Akalā Nāhikulani Neves. In 2004 he opened Hālau Ha’a Kea o Kinohi in
California in honor of his son. This hālau is now based jointly in Hilo and San Francisco under Kumu Paul's direction. In 2006,
Kumu Paul opened Hālau Ha'a Kea o Mokihana in Washington DC in honor of his wife. He has judged and participated in hula
competitions in Hawai’i and Japan.
Since 1984 Kumu Paul has been very involved in the spiritual, cultural, and political challenges facing the Native Hawaiian
people and is an advocate of justice for the Native Hawaiian people. Kumu Paul was a founding member of Ka Lāhui Hawai'i an
sovereignty initiative and served as its first elected LT Governor. Kumu Paul served the Catholic community of the Malia Puka
o Kalani Catholic Community in Keaukaha, Hawai'i.
Kumu Paul is a high chief of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I. He has given workshops on spiritual, cultural and political
analyses of the Native Hawaiian people in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, across the United States, Puerto Rico, Europe and at the
United Nations in New York, the World Council of Churches and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva,
Switzerland. He has participated as an official observer for the Royal Order of Kamehaha I with regards to the Hawaiian
kingdom at The Hague, Netherlands at the World Court.
Kumu Paul is a cultural practitioner of the traditional ways of the native Hawaiian people. Kumu Paul emphasizes aloha, ‘ohana
(family) and alaka'i (leadership/ discipline) as the core of our communal expression. Kumu Paul's purpose in supporting the
creation of the hālau 'ohana communities is to lay a foundation of aloha with the goal of inviting the Native Hawaiian culture at
the forefront of making change in the world.
California in honor of his son. This hālau is now based jointly in Hilo and San Francisco under Kumu Paul's direction. In 2006,
Kumu Paul opened Hālau Ha'a Kea o Mokihana in Washington DC in honor of his wife. He has judged and participated in hula
competitions in Hawai’i and Japan.
Since 1984 Kumu Paul has been very involved in the spiritual, cultural, and political challenges facing the Native Hawaiian
people and is an advocate of justice for the Native Hawaiian people. Kumu Paul was a founding member of Ka Lāhui Hawai'i an
sovereignty initiative and served as its first elected LT Governor. Kumu Paul served the Catholic community of the Malia Puka
o Kalani Catholic Community in Keaukaha, Hawai'i.
Kumu Paul is a high chief of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I. He has given workshops on spiritual, cultural and political
analyses of the Native Hawaiian people in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, across the United States, Puerto Rico, Europe and at the
United Nations in New York, the World Council of Churches and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva,
Switzerland. He has participated as an official observer for the Royal Order of Kamehaha I with regards to the Hawaiian
kingdom at The Hague, Netherlands at the World Court.
Kumu Paul is a cultural practitioner of the traditional ways of the native Hawaiian people. Kumu Paul emphasizes aloha, ‘ohana
(family) and alaka'i (leadership/ discipline) as the core of our communal expression. Kumu Paul's purpose in supporting the
creation of the hālau 'ohana communities is to lay a foundation of aloha with the goal of inviting the Native Hawaiian culture at
the forefront of making change in the world.
Kumu Paul Neves
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